let's go to vicki young who is in the lobby for us, andi to vicki young who is in the lobby for us, ands plenty of reaction, what is the conservative side saying about the of borisjohnson. conservative side saying about the of boris johnson. they are saying that they are disappointed in that they are already framing this as jeremy corbyn trying to block brexit. the reason they are doing thatis brexit. the reason they are doing that is because of course they want a general election that would be the argument going into the general election but labour, jeremy corbyn is blocking brexit so they hope to skip up brexit voters including those who had been the last year or so those who had been the last year or so defected to the brexit party. that is the idea but of course getting to the general election could be a little bit tricky but on the tory side the rebellion, larger than most people had died, 21 conservative suit rebelled and will know, we understand the effectively booted out of the party. i am joined by one of them now, and have you been told that you do make the web is withdrawn an

philip hammond, from whom the whip is withdrawn last night. 0ur chief political correspondent, vicki young worth reflecting on the unprecedented nature of this, the breakneck speed with which the bill is progressing. i think it is worth doing that because things are moving so doing that because things are moving so quickly, and prime ministers questions today, there were probably five headlines there on a normal day, but we've almost forgotten about it because we got del webb moved onto the next thing. so it's worth taking a step back. first, the idea that mps not in government can ta ke idea that mps not in government can take control of the house of commons and successfully change a law is pretty staggering itself, so to be able to do that in the middle of this crisis is not quite unprecedented but highly unusual and has led to the 21 tory mps effectively being booted out of the party. so i think the bill will go through, it would be pretty incredible if those mps now backtracked. so that's where we will be about nine may be ten o'clock. and then we move on to the suggestion about a gene

vicki young there.w with the former head of press at number 10, giles kenningham. talkradio presenter and political commentator, daisy mcandrew, joins me now from westminster. mps are debating whether they will seize control of the agenda to push through this legislation. you think they have the numbers and can do that? well the government are moving the narrative now onto the general election. it seems labour are shifting their position on that. so they will not vote for that and that leaves the government in a bind. they will not vote for that and that leaves the government in a bindm could be a complete mess. is that how you see it? i think it is probably going pretty much as number ten predicted. the way i see it is they are going for something of a scorched earth policy whereby they think a lot of these tory rebels are going to rebel and they may as well force them out. a lot of those mps who we know in fact we saw in the commons chamber they stood up when the speaker said who is in favour of this

our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is in manchester.estions as answers in the conference coming up this week, not least how much time will be spent in manchester and how much time will be spent in westminster? that's right. we know that mps refused to grant the recess, the normal break in parliament that you have the party conferences. it happens every other year, they have not done it this time. the conservatives were determined to go ahead with us, partly because there are a lot of businesses here, the money has been sheued businesses here, the money has been shelled out and they want to carry on as usual. but there is chat here about having to go back to westminster at some point. this possibility of a vote in no confidence in the government, perhaps it is slightly going away. there is concern in the opposition parties that it simply won't work. partly because, even if they can win a vote of no—confidence in boris johnson, you have to find someone who can be prime minister with the confidence of the house. that is proving to be incre

vicki young, thank you very much.r look to the government's pledge to put billions of pounds into hospital projects across england. the proposals include a £2.7 billion investment for six hospitals, over five years and a new approach to mental health treatment, to be trialled in 12 areas across the country. earlier we heard from anita charlesworth, director of research and economics at the health foundation it is a big investment in one sense, on top of theresa may's investment last year, which was for day—to—day running costs of the nhs. but, although it sounds like a lot of money, we have had so many years of underinvestment in our hospital infrastructure, that actually, rather than spending £2.7 billion across the next five years, you would almost certainly need to spend £2.7 billion a year, for the next five years, to really modernise the physical infrastructure of the health service. and the nhs doesn'tjust need buildings, it needs computers, people may well remember the virus last year. and it needs things like

what are you hearing, vickie young?y pretty confident about winning this vote tonight. something similar last time around, it's greeks threw on a majority ofjust one. since then, of course commit or have been a number of conservatives sacked from the cabinet. many of them have been making their voices known today. the former chancellor philip hammond, all of them say they're willing to rebel against the government on this because they don't file no—deal is right for the country, so they want to bring in this new law to delay brexit to get into the end ofjanuary if no deal has got to prominent. a lot of today has got to prominent. a lot of today has been about a lot of mps, seeking assurance from the prime minister he is serious about getting a deal, a new deal, with the eu, with brussels, and some other have not been convinced by that. let's look at the date has been for boris johnson. he has lost an mp to the liberal democrats, is working majority. it looks like he may well lose this vote tonight and this is the first

was more than ready with a range of policies for government. 0ur chief political correspondent vicki youngeports. # 0h, jeremy corbyn... he wants to be prime minister. they're desperate for him to be prime minister. and many here think that day has just come closer. it's been a difficult conference forjeremy corbyn, but today he got plenty of new material for his hastily rescheduled speech. tomorrow, parliament will return. cheering the government will be held to account for what it has done. borisjohnson has been found to have misled the country. this unelected prime minister should now resign. cheering and there was more. he thinks he's above us all. he's part of an elite that disdains democracy. i will tell you this. i don't think he is fit to be prime minister. applause so what is mr corbyn going to do next? he could hold a vote of no—confidence in borisjohnson, but for now, he's reluctant to act. this crisis can only be settled with a general election. that election needs to take place as soon as this government's threat of a disastrous no—deal is taken off the table. cheering labour'

vicki young, bbc news, brighton.e will be taking an in—depth look at them. that's with our reviewers jo—anne nadler and stephen bush. that's coming up after the headlines at 11:30pm. in washington, democratic members of congress have launched an impeachment inquiry into president trump after he acknowledged withholding us aid to ukraine and pushing the country to investigate joe biden, the frontrunner for the democratic presidential nomination next year. but president trump says the withholding of the funds was not done to put pressure on ukraine. let's get the latest from washington and our correspondent david willis. david, i know we've been talking, we be hearing from democratic members of congress and the last hour or so. what have they been saying? well, it's an historic move, rebecca, no question about that and nancy pelosi, the house speaker, speaking from the speaker's balcony, said that donald trump had betrayed the oath of office and broken the law. this present must be held accountable. resisting calls fro

vicki young, bbc news, bournemouth.says the weapons used in the attacks at the weekend on saudi arabia's major oil facilities were made in iran. the saudis say an investigation into the incident is still going on but iran has denied any involvement. saudi arabia is the world's biggest oil exporter, and two sites were hit — a processing plant and a key oilfield. the attack shut down 5% of global supplies, causing oil prices to finish the day 15% higher, with a jump earlier in the day not seen since saddam hussein invaded kuwait in the 19905. nawal al—maghafi has the story. striking at the heart of the saudi oil industry. attacks on the largest refinery, cutting capacity by half. an attack by houthi rebels in reaction to saudi support in yemen. last month, a targeted attack on a military parade in aden killed hundreds. back then i interviewed the deputy foreign minister. he warned there was more to come. translation: for the last five years we have been the ones who are attacked. it is only normal that we retaliate to def

vicki young, bbc news.s described a front—page article in the sun newspaper about a family tragedy 31 years ago as "immoral" and the "lowest form ofjournalism". in a statement, he said the paper's decision to publish the story would have "grave and lifelong consequences for his mother in particular". the sun has told the bbc that the events it describes were a matter of public record. here's our sports editor, dan roan. from world cup winner to ashes hero, this has been a season to savour for ben stokes, but just this has been a season to savour for ben stokes, butjust two days after the final test of the summer, english cricket's biggest star finds himself embroiled in a bitter row with the sun newspaper over what he condemned as an immoral and heartless article about a family tragedy more than 30 years ago. in a statement today, ben stokes said, it's hard to find words to adequately describe such low and despicable behaviour disguised as journalism. to use my name as an excuse to shatter the privacy and p

vicki young, bbc news, dorset.s has described a front page article in the sun newspaper about a family tragedy which happened 31 years ago as "immoral" and the "lowest form ofjournalism". in a statement, he said the paper's decision to publish the story would have "grave and lifelong consequences for his mother in particular". the sun has told the bbc that the events it describes were a matter of public record. our sports editor dan roan has more details. from world cup winner to ashes hero, this has been a season to savour for ben stokes, but just two days after the final test of the summer, english cricket's biggest starfinds himself embroiled in a bitter row with the sun newspaper, over what he condemned as an immoral and heartless article about a family tragedy more than 30 years ago — the details of which the bbc has chosen not to repeat. in a statement today, stokes said, "it's hard to find words adequately describe such low and despicable behaviour, disguised as journalism. to use my name as an excuse to sha

vicki young, bbc news, westminster. 0ur political correspondent, jessica parker, is at westminster.johnson says borisjohnson says he doesn't want an election. we don't want an election. is an election on october the 14th inevitable? i wouldn't say is inevitable, for a couple of reasons. first of all, what are we getting from government sources that if mps are successful, even just their initial efforts tomorrow to seize control of the order paper, then downing street will try to call a snap election, but first, mps need to be successful in doing that in order to make the government make that move. but then also, the government would need to win support of two—thirds of mps. as laura was just referring to, the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, seems fairly gung ho, as opposition leaders often are, because they say they can do a betterjob than the leader in post. but mps are worried, because they think that perhaps if they voted for a general election on the basis that it happened on october the 1ath, borisjohnson could theoretically turn around a little later and say actually, i think a

vicki young, bbc news, westminster. our political editor laura kuenssberg is here.on, what are the chances of a general election? number ten is adamant they don't want to do it but they might have to do it and it is the biggest role of the dice any prime minister, let alone one who has only been in office for a few weeks, has to make. but first of all, the alliance of rebel tory mps and opposition mps getting together in the house of commons tomorrow, they have to defeat the government to trigger number ten moving to try to get an election. that is not inevitable, the numbers might be quite tight, but it is highly likely and a lot of the rebels i have been speaking to are very confident indeed although things could change. the second thing, if it were to happen, number ten would have to persuade two thirds of mps in the house of commons they should go to the country. again, that is not impossible. jeremy corbyn indicating very strongly, he would be likely to go for it but there are plenty of mps who are wondering about whether or not boris johnson mps who are wonder

vicki young, bbc news, brighton.homas cook have faced demands by hotels for extra money to cover the cost of their holidays. as thousands more passengers were being flown home today, there have also been reports that many have not been returned to the airports they left britain from. there are now questions being asked of thomas cook's bosses amid criticism over their salaries and their management of the company. here's our transport correspondent, tom burridge. the operation to fly thomas cook customers home, now in full swing. this check—in in mallorca on to a flight organized by the government. hotels like this one are owed money from thomas cook bookings. last night, staff demanded that guests who'd already paid for their entire holiday, cover the unpaid bills. caught up in it all, graham and claire. it wasn't a pleasant scene. so there was a bit of aggression from one of the reception staff demanding the money. 0bviously they're quite worried about not being paid themselves. the same story at this hotel in la nz

vicki young, bbc news, bournemouth. for racial harassment against the british army. hani gue — seen here — and his colleague nkululeko zulu — said they'd been harassed for years. the tribunaljudge said that grafitti displayed in the barracks was unquestionably related to race. our defence correspondent jonathan beale is outside the ministry of defence — how damaging is this for the army? it is damaging, the army presents itself as inclusive and want to attract more black and asian recruits. they make up to 7% of the armed forces at the moment. the tribunal was out here reject some of the allegations that nkululeko zulu made but it finds that they were targeted with racist graffiti in their barracks in colchester in 2018 just before they left the army and the tribunal says that more should be done by the army to prevent that incident. the response from the mod, they say that they take all allegations of racism extremely seriously. that said an internal review inside the mod earlier this year found that there were a dispr

vicki young there. let's talk to our deputy political editor, john pienaar at westminster.ld the brexit referendum in 2016, has broken his silence on the current brexit impasse. and how. we see past prime ministers take pot shots at their successoi’s, ministers take pot shots at their successors, but never anything quite like this. david cameron is about to release his memoirs and he's given a brutally interview to the times. in the book, he describes his now formerfriend michael the book, he describes his now former friend michael gove, the book, he describes his now formerfriend michael gove, the cabinet ministerfor formerfriend michael gove, the cabinet minister for no deal planning, as mendacious, a liar, in other words. he described him and borisjohnson as having left the truth at home during the eu referendum campaign, having behaved appallingly, and he is scathing about the decision to expel rebels from the parliamentary party and stop them standing as candidates, and as for suspending parliament, he calls that sharp practice, a sort of old—fashioned term for tricker

vicki young with that report.n pienaar in westminster. while all of this is reaching a crescendo, the man who decided to call a referendum on the first place, david cameron has given his first in—depth interview. place, david cameron has given his first in-depth interview. that's right. many conservatives have been appalled at the way as they see it, borisjohnson ‘s appalled at the way as they see it, boris johnson ‘s drive appalled at the way as they see it, borisjohnson ‘s drive for brexit and no deal has divided the party. in downing street close to boris johnson there is a view that the deeper the split, the wider the split and the more bitter the division, the betterfor boris johnson, that it could help him convince brexit supporting voters that he is on their side. whatever you think about that and the splits and the divisions, theyjust yawned and the divisions, theyjust yawned a whole lot whiter. david cameron is about to publish his memoirs and he has given an interview to the times. the book he describes

vicki young purporting. —— reporting.n is political correspondent at buzzfeed, and jack blanchard edits the london playbook for politico. they bothjoin me now from the conference in manchester. welcome to you both. there has been a lot of talk about division and unity. which word applies to the conservatives at the moment?” unity. which word applies to the conservatives at the moment? i don't think you can call a party unified that hasjust sacked think you can call a party unified that has just sacked 21 think you can call a party unified that hasjust sacked 21 of think you can call a party unified that has just sacked 21 of its mps. there is obviously huge divisions in the tory party over europe as there have been for years. having said that there is a sense of people trying to get behind the prime minister, i don't feel like they feel they have a lot of choice. they know election is coming soon though not quite sure when. given the scale of the chaotic background in politics i don't think it has gone too badly here for

vicki young, bbc news, bournemouth.y says the weapons used in the attacks at the weekend on saudi arabia's major oil facilities were made in iran. the saudis say an investigation into the incident is still going on, but iran has denied any involvement. saudi arabia is the world's biggest oil exporter, and two sites were hit — a processing plant and a key oilfield. the attack shut down 5% of global supplies, causing oil prices to finish the day 15% higher — withjumps not seen since saddam hussein invaded kuwait in the 1990s. nawal al—maghafi has the story. striking at the heart of saudi's oil industry, a major attack on the world's largest processing facility, cutting output by half, an attack claimed by houthi rebels in retaliation for the saudi intervention in yemen. this was not their first. last month, intervention in yemen. this was not theirfirst. last month, a intervention in yemen. this was not their first. last month, a targeted attack on a military parade in aden killed dozens. back then, i interviewed the hout

our chief political correspondent vicki young is in manchester.nds of people took part in a march protesting about the prime minister # brexit agenda outside of the conference. let's hearfrom lindsay smith. the first of two protest marches through manchester city centre has just finished and as you say, thousands of people have, for this march. greater manchester police say they expected 100,000 protesters and that they were well placed to manage such a scale of protest. indeed, we've seen coaches arrive from across the country today and greater manchester police are being assisted by forces from across the country. now, borisjohnson is not unfamiliar with protests at the moment that these have been timed to coincide perfectly with the conservative party conference which is happening here in the city of manchester today and certainly as the protesters passed the conference venue, they slowed down and tried to make their voices heard. now, this first march has been organised by the people's assembly against austerity. there's a second march expecte

vicki young in the lobby. we'll come back to you.ervative mp, philip lee, defecting to the liberal democrats. and include public fashion. he took his seat alongside joe and include public fashion. he took his seat alongsidejoe swenson, the lib dem leader ——jo swinson. a little earlier, my colleague huw edwards asked mr lee why he felt compelled to leave his party. i have been a member of the conservative party for over 20 yea rs. conservative party for over 20 years. in recent months, ifelt uncovered but represent my constituents is eight conservative mac member of parliament. —— uncovered about. i feel strongly i can fill the duty first as a member opponent for the liberal democratic party. tell us about the conversation you had with cabinet ministers in recent days and what kind of impact they made on you.” have not had any representations, to be honest. i strongly believe, and have done, that the brexit the public are going to get is 90 brexit we re public are going to get is 90 brexit were promised. and i don't think that's excep

vicki young political correspondent...labour party sing we re election with the labour party sing were not going to tell you how to campaign, oryou were not going to tell you how to campaign, or you expressed at that point. he is saying that he would personally campaign to remain, but how much will he stay onside with jeremy corbyn, just minutes ahead of those crucial votes. there has been a lot of policy announcement here today, as well as the bios, debates over brexit. let's discuss some of those. i'm joined by dan carterfrom the shadow cabinet. 0n the policies, some people are looking at these and are saying they are pretty radical policies. —— dan cardin. are saying they are pretty radical policies. —— dan cardinlj are saying they are pretty radical policies. -- dan cardin. i hope that people will see the range of policies are setting a new direction and the next general election will bea and the next general election will be a really big choice for the country. which direction that we go. it's a race at to the bottom

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vicki young, bbc news, brighton.a special section answering your questions on the the bbc website, visit at bbc.co.uk/have your say. a major operation is continuing to bring more than 150,000 people back to the uk , after the collapse of the travel operator thomas cook. according to the civil aviation authority, 0peration matterhorn has organised 7a flights today, repatriating around 16,000 passengers. flights will continue until the 6th of october, as our transport correspondent tom burridge reports. repatriating 150,000 repatriating150,000 people is complicated, but resilience at this turkish airport. the manchester flight turkish airport. the manchester flight is full, right? still in her thomas cook uniform, unsure if she will be paid. but in kefalonia tonight, a long and miserable weight after a government run rescue flight was delayed and then cancelled. and people still on thomas cook holidays are having trouble too. hotels like this one are owed money by a company which has collapsed. last night, staff demande

let's bring in vicki young in the lobby of the palace of westminster.lection now and they bill has been passed telling the prime minister to send a letter asking for a delay but the prime minister says he won't ask for a delay, what happens? that's their fear, for a delay, what happens? that's theirfear, i think. for a delay, what happens? that's theirfear, ithink. they for a delay, what happens? that's theirfear, i think. they fear for a delay, what happens? that's their fear, i think. they fear boris johnson might ignore it. he's been asked about this several times and has said that we will uphold the law. a prime minister not following the law is, you know, unusual. downing street are doing things differently but that would be quite difficult. the point that labour mps are making is that they don't trust borisjohnson. you're talking about this particular vote at the moment. it won't be a cliffhanger. labour are abstaining on this, they aren't voting. looking at the benches, many labour mps have gone home for the night. conservative mps, minus those w

with me on the green and doing battle with the noise behind me, vicky young.ing about the parliamentary business later. a very significant moment, a conservative mpjoining the liberal democrats very visibly during the prime minister was mike statement leaving borisjohnson with no working majority. we can overstate these things but how significant is that move? it is a huge movement because it means he doesn't have a working majority in the house of commons. on the other hand, let's face it, he hasn't really had a working majority because of the rebels including philip lee but the fact he chose to do it this way with the tv cameras on him as the prime minister got up to speak is heaven trying to make a broad point here, and i think his letter is interesting because he talked about the party he joined in 1992 and he says, it is not the same party as the one i am leaving, because he said it was a broad church and know it has a narrow faction and this chimes today with whatjustine greening faction and this chimes today with what justine greening was faction and th

vicki young reporting.16 brexit referendum. the investigation was launched after the electoral commission the campaign group leave.eu will face no further criminal investigation over its spending during the 2016 brexit referendum. the investigation was launched after the electoral commission referred the campaign — founded by businessman aaron banks — to the police over its spending during the referendum and fined it £70,000. but the force said there was insufficient evidence to justify any further action. let us just tell you the actress felicity huffman has been sentenced to 14 days in prison. this was in the us colleges admissions scandal. she paid a large sum of money to get her daughter into a us college. she has been sentenced. she was in the hit tv show desperate housewives. she was sentenced to 14 days, accused with quite a large number of other parents as well. we will try and bring more on that to you as soon as and bring more on that to you as soon as we and bring more on that to you as soon as w

let's cross over to the houses of parliament and our chief political correspondent vicki young. talk about what is coming up, because we expect the prime minister to be addressing the house. when can we expected that? and what do you expect the message to be based on what's been so far? we are working away through these various statements. they're still going on now talking about no deal planning, and the nephi minister, so we think we are looking at about 6:30pm —— and then the prime minister. we note the speaker in the past, knowing mps have lots of things to ask if i minister, could let it go on for hours. if we can look at what geoffrey cox was saying earlier, the way he was going out fighting there, i think we are good have something similar. i cannot imagine borisjohnson have something similar. i cannot imagine boris johnson come have something similar. i cannot imagine borisjohnson come here and apologising for anything. instead, it sounds of ministers are trained to goad the opposition into calling a general election. belgian parties are not willing to —— the opposition

vicki young in manchester at the conservative party conference. vicki, thanks.s facing a re—selection battle after her constituency voted for the chance to pick a new candidate. the former labour deputy leader harriet harman said she was dismayed by the move, saying "surely this cannot stand". the former foreign secretary david miliband said it was "mad, truly crazy". and that, "any constituency would be lucky to have margaret as their mp." and the deputy leader of the labour party tom watson said he had "no doubt margaret will win a full selection" but that the process was an unnecessary distraction on the cusp of a general election. dame margaret, who'sjewish and has been critical ofjeremy corbyn‘s handling of anti—semitism in the party, said she was "disappointed" but would fight to keep her seat in east london. to remain as the labour party cabinet embarking which she has represented since winning a by—election their 25 years ago. polls have just closed in austria's general election, with the former chancellor sebastian kurz looking to return to powerjust fo

let us speak to our chief political correspondence, vicky young.about tomorrow and taking control of the parliamentary agenda into a confidence vote in his government. yes, he's trying to put massive pressure on his own mps because his argument is the only way to get the eu to compromise and give a new deal, new withdrawal agreement, eu to compromise and give a new deal, new withdrawalagreement, he thinks, is if the eu thinks he is serious in the country as it is about living with no deal. if mps change the law so that cannot happen, he thinks that removes any h he has. when he said, be in no doubt, i will not go and ask for a readily he cannot do that, he has said constantly we are leaving with or without a deal in october, he could not possibly go to the eu now, evenif could not possibly go to the eu now, even if the law said he did. so his options are to ignore the law and break the law, pretty unlikely, you resign and talk away, pretty unlikely, or he has a general election. if the law is changed on next few days, the bbc understands he will tr

vicki young, bbc news, brighton. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. would respect a ruling from the uk supreme court that he had broken the law in doing so. let's move onto to the story. the controversy over us president donald trump's phone call with the ukrainian president is heating up — with increasing calls from democrats to begin impeachment proceedings. a few hours ago, president trump announced he will release a transcript of the call with president volodymyr zelensky, tweeting. .. that came not long after the house speaker nancy pelosi announced she'd be making a statement about the investigations into trump in the next hour or so. here she is speaking earlier today. and if that is the case, that the president of the united states would ask a foreign government to assist him ina ask a foreign government to assist him in a political way, that would be wrong. would it be impeachable? laughter. let mejust be wrong. would it be impeachable? laughter. let me just say that everything we have been doing up until now is about preserving that republic

vicki young was saying that brexiteers are concerned they would be going to the country without deliveringltjob, more people oppose a no—deal brexit than support it but when you give people the full range of options, the most popular options are revoking article 50 as saying in the eu or leaving with no deal, but neither of them has much more than a quarter of the public supporting them. i difficult problem for this government and any government in the future. very grateful for your company. let's show you the pictures in the house of commons. bernard jenkin, conservative brexiteer, on his feet. the debate is going to run for another half—an—hour, until we have the vote on the election motion. you are watching a bbc news special. as we introduce the concept of referendums into our constitution, and the representative mandate is unalterably qualified by the fact that we had a referendum and we said we would implement the result of the referendum and the house has failed to do so. the question we must ask ourselves, how is this going to be resolved? it's ourselves, how is this going to be re

with that in mind, let usjoin vicki young in manchester for us.of living with or without a deal. he seemed to be repeatedly saying there might be a way around the so—called benn act? the chat here is lots of people wondering what that way around might be. because the prime minister is saying we‘re definitely leaning on the 31st of october with or without deal, equally i won‘t break the law, then what i see going to do? suggestion, i thought, then what i see going to do? suggestion, ithought, they then what i see going to do? suggestion, i thought, they are, seems to be that you can write the letter requesting it, it does not necessarily mean the eu will say and grant that the later brexit, that extension until the end of january. next year. there are lots of people in brussels we think there is no way the eu wouldn‘t grant it but it is a very, very difficult situation, where the prime minister is effectively writing a letter, with his fingers crossed behind his back saying i‘m writing this because i am being told to by parliament but it is not wha

in a moment we can get the view from westminster with our chief political correspondent, vicki young, correspondent, nicholas witchell is outside buckingham palace for us. how unusual a reaction from the palace is that? it is unusual and i think from this pleasure we can read it was a sharp displeasure and this comes from the queen herself. they will not use that word without reflecting her thoughts. i would imagine she feels pretty let down by david cameron. however, we should not assume david cameron was the sole instigator of putting the whole idea into the head of the queen that she might say something. we know she ca res she might say something. we know she cares deeply about the country of which he is head of state. this is the only subject she has made a semi political speech in 1979 when she told the house of commons that she was crowned queen of the united kingdom. younger members of the royalfamily at kingdom. younger members of the royal family at the time of the scottish referendum were also expressing unease and wondered if there were some way in which their feelings migh

let's bring in vicki young who is still in the central lobby in the palace of westminster.e house of commons and i think that is the closure motion said this means this is a boat to make sure that they stop talking. that they bring this debate to an and. this is not the one we are interested in, this is just to say this is the end of the debate and this will take about 15 minutes and then we will move onto the main vote and that is all whether mps can take control of commons business tomorrow in order to try to change the law to change the mac minister to delay brexit if they have not gotten to it by the middle of october. if that is the crucial vote, that is the next one which will start in about 15 minute's time and the tally of conservative rebels, we think that it is standing at 17 said these are conservatives who are willing to d efy conservatives who are willing to defy the government and go against what force johnson is telling defy the government and go against what forcejohnson is telling them to do in order to make sure they get control of the house of commons bus

so actually getting a deal could be the one way he gets out of this. 0k, vicki ok, vicki young in the us. thank you very much. i think we will see lots of vicki this evening, shall we? because there's an awful lot going on. several boats, two emergency debates this evening, and of course that important debate on the election coming up as well. before we get this rather arcane ceremony that surrounds the prorogation of parliament. so let's show you, can we just, the prorogation of parliament. so let's show you, can wejust, the pictures from the house of commons at the moment. we have michael gove, on his feet, this is a debate at the moment over the government's reasoning for prorogation of parliament. the former attorney general, dominic reed, who brought this emergency order, has been asking for all the e—mails, the whatsapp messages, the text messages, that were sent between the pre—minister and his tea m between the pre—minister and his team in the days running up to the decision to prorogue parliament, and he's also after the details from that yellow hammered document. the governm

our chief because —— our chief political correspondence, vicky young there.ll of this for us as well. jessica, so many excellent maybes, what are you hearing about where parliament and the government are going on this?” have just seen something interesting. apparently the podium does have the government crest on it which means it is unlikely that borisjohnson will be calling a general election, it will be a government based statement. we will have to wait and see what he says but there is often a lot of excitement as to whether these podiums at the crest on them or not. what will you be talking about? we have to wait and see, we are speculating here. it has been clear that signals from downing street over the past few days are designed to trying to get conservative mps to back the government approach on brexit. you have been discussing with the key this legislation which has now been published. it is a group of cross—party mps against no—deal brexit, trying to ensure borisjohnson no—deal brexit, trying to ensure boris johnson cannot take no—deal brexit, tryin

let'sjoin our chief political correspondent vicki young who's in the central lobby.ir positions in front of the dispatch box. we are going to get the first result of the amendment. i remind you, derrida sebastian was saying he doesn't think any of the amendments will come to much this evening. think any of the amendments will come to much this eveninglj think any of the amendments will come to much this evening. i think that's yes. some of them are about bringing back on reviving theresa may's deal. what she must be thinking now i don't know. we have a number of labourmps are thinking now i don't know. we have a number of labour mps are saying i kind of wish i'd voted for her deal back then. maybe she we should bring it back. it feels a bit late for that. i'm joined by the conservative mp andrew percy. there are mps, labourmps, mp andrew percy. there are mps, labour mps, saying they should have voted for theresa may's deal. labour mps, saying they should have voted for theresa may's deallj don't buy it. they had three attempts and they didn't. there may bea attempts

vicki young, bbc news, dorset.ont—page article in the sun newspaper about a family tragedy which happened 30 years ago as immoral and the lowest form of journalism. he said the papers decision to publish the story would have grave and long lasting consequences for his mother in particular. the sun says the events we re particular. the sun says the events were a matter of public record. from world cup winner to ashes hero, this has been a season to savour for ben stokes, but just two days after the final test of the summer, english cricket's biggest star finds himself embroiled in a bitter row with the sun newspaper, over what he condemned as an immoral and heartless article about a family tragedy more than 30 years ago — the details of which the bbc has chosen not to repeat. in a statement today, stokes said: ben stokes' heroics here at headingley this summer, where he produced one of the greatest innings ever seen to win the third ashes test, elevated him to the status of national hero. with that, of course, comes

their leaderjo swinson sat down with our chief political correspondent vicki young earlier today. a half yea rs we have been, for three and a half years arguing that when details of the final brexit proposition were available, that should be put to the public, for the final say in a people sought. and we still think thatis people sought. and we still think that is the best way to resolve the brexit issue. and we will argue for that in parliament. but if we do not manage to secure that and find ourselves in a general election, that might be the last opportunity the public have to make their voice heard on brexit. and, as a party that wholeheartedly believes that oui’ that wholeheartedly believes that our best future is within the european union, we need to give the british public the chance to vote for it, saying if you elect a liberal democrat majority government, we will stop brexit by revoking article 50. isn't it deliberately divisive, in a way, there are people including former mps in your party saying that will alienate people. people who do understand the need to be another

to the conference hall now and vicki young who is therefore the snow. unusual set of circumstances in which the conference is meeting. what has been the reaction to the prime minister's interview today?” think the whole theme here is pretty clear. there are banners everywhere saying get brexit done. and you can hear the prime minister reallyjust repeating that over and over again today in that interview, saying he felt the only way forward for the country's well—being, he was saying, was to make sure brexit is delivered. for him, that means delivering on 31st october, yet made it very clear she will leave with oui’ it very clear she will leave with our without a deal. the big question, and he was asked many, many times, and people are talking about this, is how can he say he is going to deliver brexit when of course the house of commons has passed that bill which says he has to ask for a delay to brexit, if there is no deal in place. now, he was asked several times how he could square that, those two seemingly contradictory points. he didn't really go t

thank you very much, vicki young.ing just behind him. we will bring you that a little later but let's move on. the chancellor has been setting up the public spending plans of the government. sajid javid said they we re government. sajid javid said they were turning a page on austerity and introducing the fastest increase in day to day spending in 15 years. he promised to add £13.8 billion to public spending. he also promised to add £1.5 billion for the social care budget, and he promised a 65% increase for the home office budget, which he says will mean the recruitment of thousands more police officers. with me now is councillor james jamieson from the local government association. it has to be said local government tends to be that a cinderella service that is not the focus of events like this but today it was. it was and i'm very pleased with the settlement that came out today. recognition of the hard work local councils do for their communities, providing those vital services, libraries or leisure centres, but more

our chief political correspondent vicki young sent us this update from the conference in manchester:ear what the message is at the conservative party conference. starting with borisjohnson this morning and then reiterated in the conference hall time and time again. it is on the banners, the posters all around here. get brexit done. that has been the message from the prime minister. he of course says he wants to get a deal with brussels but would be willing to leave without a deal as well and of course that is the controversy within the party. we have seen several conservative mps are booted out of the parliamentary party. now, some of them are turning up here to put their message across, that they are simply trying to stop no deal, but the party knows it has to really get that issue sorted in some way before it can go on to talk about other things, such as health spending and spending on education, spending on extra police officers. they want to talk about that as well this week. there is another thing going on here, because lots of tory mps are going to be glancing back at westminst

thank you for that, vicki young there, are chief political correspondent.director of the research group deltapoll, who joins us on webcam from north london now. what is polling evidence about what mr johnson's government i do now under brexit strategy now, and if they we re brexit strategy now, and if they were an election, and a lot of people pointing to that possibility in the next few weeks, i would the various parties fair? well, the short answer is, we don't know. these are very unusual times. this isa these are very unusual times. this is a unique situation for british politics and, crucially, polls are only ever a snapshot of public opinion of where we are at the moment. if election called today, a lot of the polling points to a win for the conservatives and a lead of a about between ten and 12%. that, in normal times, would be good enough to deliver a majority for the conservatives are between set of 20 and 30. but these are not normal times, and these calculations that translate vote share to set‘s don't ta ke translate vote share to set‘s don't ta

let's discuss this further with vicki young who's at westminster this afternoon. for? anything could happen, simon. what's happening here is the rebel mps on the conservative side feel they do have the numbers, the first step to change the law to force a borisjohnson or try step to change the law to force a boris johnson or try to force step to change the law to force a borisjohnson or try to force him, to ask for a delay to brexit if he does not have a deal in place. it looks like they've got the numbers. i spoke to one earlier and they said ifi i spoke to one earlier and they said if i thought he was serious about getting a deal and seriously negotiating, i would getting a deal and seriously negotiating, iwould not getting a deal and seriously negotiating, i would not do this but he said he was not convinced that was the case. maybe at the beginning but not anymore. it looks maybe early as tomorrow the law could be changed. they used a similar strategy with theresa may who then went to the eu and got the extension to article 50 and eli brexit but borisjohnson is

our chief political correspondent vicki young is here with me now.nson in dublin borisjohnson in dublin saying, reiterating that he still wants a deal. and saying that not getting a deal. and saying that not getting a deal would be a failure of statecraft. i think it was a different tone than what we have heard from him. although he has over said he does want a deal, the emphasis has been on no deal preparation and how he is willing to die ina preparation and how he is willing to die in a ditch. today i did feel different in that sense. i think the fa ct different in that sense. i think the fact he has had that resignation to deal with from amber rudd, his brother also resigning, he is now emphasising his desire to get a deal ina emphasising his desire to get a deal in a little bit more than he was previously. of course, that does not make it any easier. you can see how actually getting a deal could be a very tempting prospect for him, given the alternatives he is faced with. i think it is worth talking about what we actually know. that would make a

our chief political correspondent, vicki young in manchester.doesn't it? businesses will welcome this ambition. businesses really want to raise wages across the board. the national living wage has been a real success story and the role of the low pay commission has been critical there. it's an independent body that make sure that ambition is met in a sustainable way, not out of kilter with productivity. lets get there as quickly as we can. you think within five years is reasonable? it does depend on the economic conditions. you can't get too out of kilter. the single most important determinant of whether we will hit that target is getting a deal with the eu. that will help the economy to move forward. if we crash out on a no deal, it will be difficult to get that. he talked about the armoury of different economic weapons he could use if there is a no—deal brexit. what you think you should be looking at if in four weeks' time we are leaving without a deal? the first thing is they need to be putting every ounce of effort into getting that deal bec

let's bring in vicki young, chief political correspondent, stilljust by the house of commons will stope about half an hour ago, i wonder what conversations you have had since? i think some tory mps saying they are in danger of ending up saying they are in danger of ending up at the end of this week with nothing having been sorted, because for borisjohnson nothing having been sorted, because for boris johnson it nothing having been sorted, because for borisjohnson it hasn't gone according to plan. he hasn't managed to fend off those calls to rule out a no—deal brexit. he also has not managed to get the votes required to get a general election, so he's pretty much stuck. all he can do really is to mockjeremy corbyn, to say is the leader of the opposition refusing the chance of a general election, that is pretty much unheard of. but i don't know if they know where to go now. i'm sure they will have a plan. there is a possibility of course that they could bring in a short bill, saying it doesn't matter about the fixed—term parliaments act, we are going to have an election on october 15. th

she was speaking to our chief political correspondent vicki young.had jeremy corbyn now demonstrating that he is determined to stop brexit at any cost. 0bviously on our side i really do hope that some of my colleagues will realise that if they vote for this bill tomorrow they are just taking away the prime minister ‘s negotiating and. he has been quite clear. we are hopeful and mystic about getting a renegotiated deal that parliament can vote on before the end of october but this would remove that negotiating hand. many of your colleagues went to see the prime minister today wanting reassurance from him that he was seriously trying to get a new deal and they were not reassured. they said there were no negotiating team, no new offers on the table, he is not serious, is he? that is not true. everything i have seen as business secretary attending the subcommittee every day looking brexit preparations, there is no doubt that the effort to get a deal has ramped up dramatically and also we are seeing some european leaders starting to change their minds. it

vicki young, thank you. especially for the first year. a lot of things to consider, not just the course year. a lot of things to consider, notjust the course and making friends, but financial as well. it isa friends, but financial as well. it is a different time of their life, may be used to living at home with theirfamily. you may be used to living at home with their family. you are working may be used to living at home with theirfamily. you are working out, you have got to pay for rent and food and it is a lot of students. we have been learning how they deal with it and how the university supports them. and also, how they make friends and enjoying the different societies. is it a stressful time, they are coming along and being away from home for the first time? i cannot speak personally, my friends are going away now. from speaking to the stu d e nts away now. from speaking to the students this week, it has been an eye—openerfor students this week, it has been an eye—opener for me. students this week, it h