so roger gale, the relatively near future. so roger gale. thank — the relatively near future.hat breaking news now that the us singer meat loaf, who was also known as michael lee aday, has died aged 74 with his wife by his side. a statement on his official facebook page said, "our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable meat loaf passed away tonight with his wife deborah by his side." my colleague stephen sackur spoke with meat loaf back in 2016, and he detailed some of the injuries he had experienced during the six decades of his career. i've had 18 concussions, i've fallen three stories off a balcony. i've been on planes that the landing gears didn't come down. i'm a cat with 49 lives. and you've got a bad back, which is restricting your movement right now. yeah, which i can't work, which is driving me crazy. well, i'm telling you, you've got a plan to tour europe, you said you weren't going to tour so much any more, but you've got this plan to tour europe with the new album — how can you do it, having batted your body to a degree which you have? well, i'll get m

thank you for talking to us, sir roger gale, | talking to us, sir roger gale, conservative mp for north the cabinet fightback is under way, started yesterday with ministers on the airwaves and tweets of varying levels of support and it continues this morning with the northern ireland secretary brandon lewis and rehearsing the argument that we will hear a lot over the next few days, and also the argument i assume that will be used if there was any vote of confidence in the prime minister if there were 54 letter submitted to sir graham brady, if that happened. the argument is that it's ok to be angry about what happened in the downing street garden, but on balance borisjohnson is the right person to lead the country. here is how brandon lewis put it on the airwaves this morning. as the prime minister himself said yesterday, in hindsight he regrets going _ yesterday, in hindsight he regrets going out— yesterday, in hindsight he regrets going out to the garden and thank the staff_ going out to the garden and thank the staff rather than telling them to come — the staff rather than telling th

. >> sir roger gale. >> first of all, making an apology is the right thing to do.tely, he then went on to say that he spent 25 minutes at what he described as a work event, and it was in fact a party. having said on the eighth of december out of the dispatch box that he was not aware of any parties in downing street, when he clearly attended one. >> an investigion will determine whether rules were broken at that gathering and other gatherings and parties. the report is due next week. orest johnson has said he was acting within the guidelines at all times. and he has the support of two very senior members of his cabinet. the foreign secretary tweeted that she stood behind him 100% while the chancellor used efferent language, saying the prime minister was right to apologize and i support his request f patients while sue gray carries out her inquiry. also defending him is the mp simon clark, chief secretary to the treasury and number two to the chancellor. >> there was no question in my mind, boris johnson was acting in good faith, to thank the people who would be hel

roger gale, good to talk to ou aaain offence. roger gale, good to talk to you again on — offence.re the world men's tennis number one is due to defend his australian open title in melbourne. the minister alex hawke said he'd made the decision on the grounds of "health and good order" — as the row continues about djokovic's right to remain in the country unvaccinated. his lawyers are now trying to stop him being deported. shaimaa khalil has the latest from melbourne. twice today, novak djokovic was on the court training. and a few hours later, the government finally announced its decision. the tennis star's visa has been cancelled again, and for the second time he faces deportation from australia. in his statement, the country's immigration minister, alex hawke, said... the prime minister, scott morrison, said the decision followed careful consideration. mr morrison's government has faced heavy criticism for allowing the unvaccinated player into australia in the first place, while the country struggled with a spike in covid—19 case numbers. i think it was a mess up they did, but no

interesting - to hear steve talk because, you know, before i came |on i was looking and i see that| roger galeenior i backbencher and has been around. for some of these deposing of prime ministers is still calling forjohnson to resign, i and yet i know that the precedent that we should look _ at is the donald trump precedent, where a year after losing - an election was still saying, "it was stolen and i'm - the real president. " i and i think that whatever happensl in these coming weeks and possibly months leading up to the may elections, i just feeljohnson i holding on to office _ using everything he possibly can, and that's why i think twitter is full of ideas that maybe i | he brought in the met at the lastj minute, the metropolitan police, to kind of gum up the works- on the release of the gray report. intriguing conspiracy theory, that one. stefanie on this question, there was a resignation this week. it wasn't a prime minister, it was a junior minister who, if i'm honest, most of us and even he would accept hadn't heard of him, but he left in the most extraordinary way. resigned at the d

leader douglas ross have called on him to go — along with william wragg, caroline nokes and sir roger galed he would write to the 1922 committee — which organises tory leadership contests — to register his lack of confidence in the prime minister. it takes letters from 5a backbench conservative mps to trigger a leadership challenge. senior ministers have urged mps to wait for the outcome of an investigation into alleged parties at number 10 — by the senior civil servant sue gray. we'll have developments throughout the morning hear from downing street — but first here's our political correspondent damian grammaticas. the chill of a westminster morning, and a prime minister in trouble. the question in the cold light of a new day — is his apology enough? in the commons yesterday, borisjohnson did finally admit he had been at a party — but said his garden was a workspace. technically, it was within the rules. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. many watching — including bereaved families — didn't believe him. it wasn't an apology, he didn't so sorry, he basically gas lit the enti

- roger gale talking about three strikes and he is out?do not even think this is about _ strikes and he is out? i do not even think this is about which _ strikes and he is out? i do not even think this is about which colour - think this is about which colour rosette you wear, it is whether you had those experiences over the last two years where you were helping constituents, you had all of these cases of people who made massive sacrifices, whether you are personally getting any amount of abuse because what appears to have been going on within number ten, thatis been going on within number ten, that is notjust politicians but also civil servants and special advisers. i cannot conceive of how this ever happened, how it seems to have happened multiple times, how anyone thought it was a good idea to plan, organise, turn up to eight at nobody said, "hang on a minute, we are telling everybody else they are not allowed to meet, cannot go to relatives' funerals, they can't visit elderly people and homes, dying relatives." how is this defensible? i

one of them is roger gale.e an apology, which was the right thing to do, i accept that. but unfortunately he then went on to say that he spent 25 minutes at a, what he described, as a work event, which was in fact a party, having said on the 8th of december at the despatch box that he was not aware of any parties in downing street. well, he clearly attended one which means he misled the house. well, an investigation by senior civil servant sue gray will determine whether rules were broken at that gathering and other alleged parties. her report is due next week. borisjohnson insists he was acting within the guidelines. and he has the support of his three most senior members of cabinet. foreign secretary liz truss tweeted that she stood behind the prime minister 100%. while the chancellor rishi sunak used different language. both are tipped as potential successors to borisjohnson. also defending the prime minister is another leadership contender — deputy prime minister dominic raab. the prime minister has come to