thank you, lucy fisher, best -- their best. thank you, lucy fisher. chief _ best -- their best.est. thank you, lucy fisher, chief physical commentator| fisher, chief physical commentator at times radio. clinics have begun closing in some us states after yesterday's supreme court ruling removed a woman's constitutional right to abortion. about half of the 50 states are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans as a result of the ruling — one of the most significant in the court's history. president biden described the ruling as a tragic error. our washington correspondent nomia iqbal is outside the supreme court where demonstrations are continuing. it is day two of those protests, not as many numbers as they were yesterday when that ruling came through but there are hundreds of protesters. i would say they are a largely pro—choice group. earlier, there were anti—abortion protesters as well and there was a slight stand—off between them where you had pro—choice groups surrounding those anti—abortion ones and shouting, my body, my choice. but people are still coming here to exp

earlier, i spoke to lucy fisher, who's chief political commentator at times radio.old me she thinks mrjohnson is trying to distance himself from the byelection results. in the immediate wake of these two rather disastrous by—election defeats, we had the prime minister try and link the discontent of tory voters or voters in those seats to the cost of living crisis. this weekend, he has moved the narrative on slightly, almost suggesting it's his mps, possibly the media, at part to blame with what he called the endless churn of allegations against him. he said that people were heartily sick of hearing about things he is alleged to have done wrong. well, many things that have upset his backbenchers aren't just allegations, of course they stem from the ethics rows that has besieged his government for months and that he has been found to have done wrong, particularly pa rtygate, where he received and accepted a criminal sanction for his role in taking part in an illegal gathering. so, i'm interested that he is trying to distance himself in this way. i don't think it is go

joining me now is lucy fisher, chief political correspondent for times radio. tion, there is a lot of consternation, there is a sense, i think, that the prime minister keeps the rebellion below 100 votes that would be within the circumstances a good result for him but, of course, having any vote at all is damaging for the prime minister and i think a lot of mps are concerned to see a lot of infighting spill—over today, in particular betweenjeremy hunt and nadine dorries. t’d particular between jeremy hunt and nadine dorries.— particular between jeremy hunt and nadine dorries. i'd might come back to that. nadine dorries. i'd might come back to that- when _ nadine dorries. i'd might come back to that. when you _ nadine dorries. i'd might come back to that. when you quite _ nadine dorries. i'd might come back to that. when you quite damaging, l to that. when you quite damaging, what you mean exactly, but i suppose my question is what if he does badly and just refuses to go? what happens?— and just refuses to go? what ha ens? ~ ~ . , and just refuses to go? what ha