Wednesday evening news briefing: Lineker tweets 'probably broke BBC guidelines'
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Good evening. Gary Lineker’s tweets probably broke BBC guidelines, according to Samir Shah, the corporation’s new chairman.
Elsewhere, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has triggered a contest for his successor by announcing he will step down by Easter.
Gary Lineker tweets probably broke BBC guidelines
Gary Lineker’s tweets probably broke BBC guidelines, according to Samir Shah, the corporation’s new chairman. Lineker, the Match of the Day presenter, this week signed an open letter criticising the government’s Rwanda policy, and used X, formerly known as Twitter, to apparently mock Tory MPs. You can read more about the incoming BBC chairman’s thoughts here.
Mark Drakeford resigns as First Minister of Wales
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has triggered a contest for his successor by announcing he will step down by Easter. The 69-year-old Labour politician, who has led Wales since 2018, said the “time has now come” for his departure. At a news conference in Cardiff, he said he would remain First Minister until his successor was chosen. Read more about the reaction to Mr Drakeford’s resignation here.
Sir Patrick Vallance’s full pandemic diary to be kept secret
Sir Patrick Vallance’s full pandemic diary is to be kept secret, the chairman of the Covid Inquiry has indicated. Lawyers for the former chief scientific adviser have argued it would be a breach of his human rights for his nightly notes, which he wrote while advising the Government during the pandemic, to be published in full.
Evening Briefing: Today’s essential headlines
Hunter Biden | The President’s son has offered to give public evidence to Congress ahead of a vote to launch an impeachment inquiry against his father, as he declared he had been the “target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine”.
Pictured | Deep-fried mince pies served by chippy
Gaynor Lord | Police release CCTV of last known movements
Politics | Starmer claims Tories in ‘meltdown’ over Rwanda Bill
Joe Biden | President ‘wracked with guilt’ over Hunter’s criminal prosecution
Battle Lines Podcast | ‘Children think that their father is a superhero, but I cannot do anything for them’
In this episode of Battle Lines, Middle East Correspondent Nataliya Vasilyeva and Senior Foreign Correspondent Sophia Yan both join us from on the ground in Israel, and Sophia guides us through the experience of Gazan journalist Sami Abu Salem, who describes the shame he feels when he cannot protect his children from the ongoing IDF strikes.
Comment and analysis
Ross Clark | Scrap these ludicrous climate change conferences
Stephen Davies | Labour doesn’t see immigration as a threat. It will soon
Professor Mark Elliott | We may be headed for an unprecedented constitutional crisis
Jeremy Warner | The pro-lockdown fanatics can’t be allowed to rewrite Covid history
Tom Harris | Mark Drakeford ruled Wales as a socialist demagogue – with very predictable results
World news: Trump sells cut-up pieces of suit he wore in mugshot
Donald Trump is selling cut up pieces of the suit he wore when he was arrested for nearly $5,000. The former president has released a series of digital trading cards priced at $99 each and anyone who buys all 47 will receive a physical card containing a piece of the “priceless” navy suit and be invited to a gala dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
Feature of the day
How I lost my midlife weight and got my cellulite to disappear
Career stress, grief and the menopause meant that I was gaining weight rapidly, but looking at my health holistically changed everything.
Editor’s choice
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Money | How the rent crisis is pricing out Britain’s landlords
Fashion | The one item every man needs to style out the festive season
Sport briefing: Today’s essential headlines
Manchester United | Rasmus Hojlund has a problem
Cricket | Usman Khawaja to fight ICC over pro-Palestine shoe ban
Football | Referee ‘devastated’ over blunder that enraged Haaland
Oliver Brown | Rationale behind Kane’s Bayern choice laid painfully bare
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Pictured | Bradley Cooper poses with daughter at Maestro premiere
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