well, with me now, a man who can expect to be almost as busy as the candidates, rick bailey, the bbc litical adviser. rick, thank you very much for coming into the newswatch studio. you've been with us before but, of course, elections is really the time when you come into your own and the guidelines come into their own — the bbc‘s fabled election guidelines. how much are they about preventing broadcasters from making mistakes? the guidelines are specific to each election and are thought about in the context of each election. and of course... you don'tjust take them off the shelf and dust them down every four years? we think about each election. or every two years at the moment? exactly. we think about each election and we think about the context of that election and, of course, at the heart of them is often the different levels of coverage you're going to give to different parties. and at the heart of that is electoral support. so we look at past and current electoral support. it's also within the framework of ofcom. ofcom publishes a digest which sets all of that out. but in the end,

well, with our man who can expect to be almost as busy as the candidate, rick bailey, the chief political. you have been with us before but elections is the time when you come into your own and the guidelines come into their own of the bbc‘s fabled guidelines. how much are they about preventing broadcasters from making mistakes? the guidelines are specific to each election and i thought about in the context of election and... don't just take them off the shelf and dust them off every four years? or two years at the moment. exactly. we think about each election in the context of the election and at the heart of them of course is often the different levels of coverage you are going to give two different parties. and at the heart of that is electoral support, so you look at past and current electoral support, it is also within the framework of 0fcom, they publisher digests which settle that out, but in the end it isa settle that out, but in the end it is a framework for editors of each programme to make good judgements about what is fair, impartial, important for the audience, important for

rick bailey, thank you very much.like to see from the bbc‘s election coverage over the course of the campaign? here are some of the hopes and fears would you have been expressing so far. a twitter user sarah asks for: james would like: chris wants: we would like to know more of your wishes for the bbc‘s election reporting and in particular we are looking for viewers interested injoining in a discussion on the programme soon. if that appeals to you, please get in touch, stay tuned for the contact details a little later. now, it was the week following the last general election in june the week following the last general election injune 2017 that the g re nfell tower election injune 2017 that the grenfell tower in west london was destroyed by fire. 72 people died in one of the worst disasters of modern times. and this week, the first phase of the enquiry into what went wrong was concluded. this is lucy manning with a powerful report showing on wednesday's news at ten. he lost his daughter, her husband and their two child

let's bring in rick tyler, msnbc political analyst, tiffany cross, managing editor of the beat d.c., and i wanted to bring back in phillip bailey, reporter at louisville's "courier journal" who joined us to talk about kentucky politics. he joined us yesterday. phillip, how surprised were you by the results last night? >> well, no one was surprised one way or the other. everyone thought matt bevin had the home court advantage, given the white rural state. president trump came in the day before the election really to give governor bevin a boost, but everyone understood that andy beshear, with the name beshear, was known from paducah to pike ville, western to eastern kentucky and had the most energized group of supporters, that would be kentucky teachers who were incensed, maybe even hated matt bevin for some of his past comments about them and his efforts to overhaul the pension system. it wasn't so much a surprise as to how andy beshear won the race. huge margins in louisville and lexington, the two urban centers in kentucky, and also flipping counties that matt bevin won before. particularly in northern kentucky which was at th