Daily Update – June 14th

Politics Live

5:30pm – And that’s all from us today! Join us tomorrow for more news and updates.

4:52pm – It’ll be interesting to see if there are any repercussions from this statement from the speaker:

4:34pm – The quote below from Sir Lindsay Hoyle showing how angry the speaker of the house is that Johnson is announcing the delays to lockdown to the media rather than parliament.

3:25pm – Former Labour MP George Galloway calls on his old party to step down in the Batley by-election, calling it a two horse race between himself and the Tories. Something tells me they won’t listen much to that warning.

2:39pm – With a lockdown extension likely, this could spell trouble for many businesses.

2:04pm – Seems increasingly likely that opening day will be delayed. I guess we’ll all have to stay inside and watch the Euros for a little while longer…

12:26pm – Starmer hits out at NI/UK hard border. The statement seems at odds with Labour’s position on the matter in December, but perhaps hints at a move towards a free trade proposal from Starmer:

11:45am – Three years on from the Grenfell tragedy, there are still hundreds of buildings built with the same cladding.

11:07am – Not a great look for the president as he repeatedly mixes up Libya and Syria:

9:50am – As mentioned earlier, the Northern Ireland protocol and hard border with the EU has been a consistent theme over the past few weeks, semi-jokingly named the ‘sausage wars’.

9:02am – A typically comprehensive summary by BBC’s Lewis Goodall on the main takeaways so far from the G7, notably the spend spend spend attitude:

8:30am – So what’s in the news this morning?

  • Lockdown easing expected to be delayed by four weeks
  • Foster due to quit as NI first minister
  • Issues over NI protocol continue at G7

8:00am – Welcome back to another day of Politics Live!