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Has Labour Just Moved Towards the Right? | BBC Newscast

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With Angela Rayner out, is Keir Starmer’s government more right wing?

Today, we look at whether the government’s leadership changes point to a turn to the right after a series of personnel changes after Angela Rayner’s resignation.

The new home secretary Shabana Mahmood is said to be taking up a harder stance on immigration and is looking at moving asylum seekers onto military sites as an alternative to hotels, as confirmed by defence secretary John Healey in an interview with Laura today.

Political correspondent joins Laura and Paddy to look at the latest ins and out and what we can read into them when it comes to what direction Keir Starmer’s government is going in.

And we discuss Reform’s readiness for government after Nigel Farage admitted his party is short of experience in government.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn and Grace Reeve. The social producer was Grace Braddock. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The weekend series producer is Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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Sixty days to build a World Cup: How they did it | BBC News

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The Esports World Cup has arrived in Paris for the first time, bringing one of the world’s biggest competitive gaming events to the …

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Inside a Bangladesh hospital during a deadly measles outbreak | BBC News

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Before a deadly outbreak this year, Bangladesh had made “substantial progress” towards eliminating measles, according to the World Health Organisation. Vaccination rates had been higher than 90%.

But that progress has quickly come undone. Since March, government figures show nearly 750 people have died, mostly children. The death toll includes confirmed and suspected cases of measles. But Unicef says the true numbers are likely higher. 

Government figures show more than 120,000 suspected and confirmed measles cases since mid-March, and there are still nearly 1,000 new cases daily. 

But why has this happened? The BBCs’ South Asia Correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports from a measles ward in the Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh.

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Keir Starmer greeted with applause as he wraps up his final PMQs as UK prime minister. #BBCNews

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Bastille Day – Europe’s attempt at collective military strength | BBC News

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A military parade has marched through the streets of Paris below clouds of red, white and blue smoke left by planes in the sky as part of Bastille Day celebrations.

Held each year on 14 July, the national holiday marks the storming of the Bastille fortress in 1789, a key event from the French Revolution.

President Emmanuel Macron was joined by European leaders, including the UK’s Sir Keir Starmer and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as soldiers from Ukraine and its ‘Coalition of the Willing’ allies passed by.

The BBC’s James Waterhouse reports on the day’s celebrations.

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