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Tonight at Ten, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
He'd been in the job for six years, presiding over far-reaching welfare | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
reforms, but tonight he says the Treasury put too much pressure | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Amid the controversy surrounding cuts to disability benefits, | :00:16. | :00:28. | |
We'll have the very latest from Downing Street. | :00:29. | :00:29. | |
Also on the programme: Europe's most-wanted man, | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Salah Abdeslam, a prime suspect in the Paris terror attacks, | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
He was arrested during raids in a suburb of the Belgian capital, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
He'd been on the run for four months. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
EU leaders and Turkey strike a deal that means from Sunday, | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
thousands of migrants who reach Europe will be sent back. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Tear gas and water canon are used as protests over corruption grow | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
in Brazil, with demands the president stands down. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
And from two wheels to four legs - the Oympic cycling champion | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Victoria Pendleton takes on the challenge of a lifetime at | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England pull off a remarkable | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
victory in the World Twenty20 - chasing down the second-highest | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Iain Duncan Smith has resigned from the Cabinet. | :01:21. | :01:47. | |
The shock move tonight from the Work and Pensions Secretary follows | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
In a statement the Work and Pensions Secretary said too much pressure had | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
been put on him to reduced its ability benefits. The shock move | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
comes over mounting controversy over ?4 millions ?4 billion worth of cuts | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
to personal independence payments. Mr Duncan Smith said the cuts were | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
not defensible that it a budget that benefited higher earners. Let's go | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
straight to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Downing Street. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
He's been at work and pensions for six years. As this disillusionment | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
been brewing for some time? I think there had been bad blood off and | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
between George Osborne at the Treasury and Iain Duncan Smith over | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
some of the more controversial welfare reforms that have been | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
designed and imposed in recent years. But nobody expected this | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
move, only 48 hours since the Budget and one of the most senior figures | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
in government, who has been in the job for six years, has decided | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
rather than defend this reform publicly, he has decided instead to | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
walk out in protest over reforms in his own department. As a prize for | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
the government and a bombshell at a very sensitive time. -- a surprise. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Here is my colleague Alex Forsyth with more. | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
For years he has been at the heart of the Conservative Party, a former | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
leader who since the Tories returned to power in 2010 has been driving | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
through his welfare reforms in Cabinet, but tonight, Iain Duncan | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Smith unexpectedly quit saying he could take no more of the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
government's approach to cutting welfare will stop questioning | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
whether we are all in this together. In his resignation letter, Iain | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Duncan Smith wrote, I have for some time and rather reluctantly, come to | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
believe that the latest changes to benefits to the disabled are a | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
compromise too far. He continued, too often my team and I have been | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
pressured in the immediate run-up to a Budget or fiscal event to deliver | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
yet more reductions to the working age benefits bill. First elected to | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Parliament in 1992, Iain Duncan Smith has always prided himself on | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
his principles. Committed Euro-sceptic from the start, he was | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
a frequent rubble during John Major's negotiations on the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Maastricht Treaty. -- rabble. But the rebel turned leader. He | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
succeeded William Hague in 2001 and put crime, transport, schools and | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
hospitals at the top of the Conservative agenda. But never a | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
great Commons performer, Iain Duncan Smith eventually stepped down after | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
pressure from within his own party. A small of Mike Parliamentary | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
colleagues have decided consciously to undermine my leadership. Now it's | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
his resignation piling pressure on his own party leader. Well, in a way | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
I wasn't surprised because he has always been a man of principle and | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
conviction, and he only took on the job at work and pensions because he | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
passionately believed in social justice and he was doing a | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
tremendous job in reforming it. A row following the Budget led to this | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
resignation. The Treasury appeared to try and lay the blame Iain Duncan | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Smith's door for planned cuts to disability payments which have now | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
been kicked into the grass. It was the final straw for the Work and | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Pensions Secretary. Iain Duncan Smith pitched himself against the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
government by declaring he would campaign to leave the EU, expected | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
given his long held do that a sign of deep Ilott -- ideological | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
difference. Now he has made those differences public. He says he's | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
incredibly proud of the welfare reforms the government has delivered | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
but lately for spending decisions as political rather than in the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
National economic interest. It's a damning verdict from a senior | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
figure, the quiet man... Let's go back to Laura Kuenssberg, in Downing | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Street. Is this resignation perhaps also a reflection of the fact that | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
the Work and Pensions Secretary hasn't managed to meet the targets | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
for benefit cuts that have been put before him in the last few years? I | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
think certainly there has been huge pressure on him at the Department | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
for Work and Pensions. Sources in government say tonight look, he has | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
resigned over a policy he was part of designing. He put this all | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
together in conjunction with the Treasury. They are questioning his | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
motivation somewhat. Senior MPs I have spoken to tonight say however | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
his motivations are very simple. They say he believed that these | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
changes to disability payments went too far. He was then angered when | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
the Treasury tried to pressure his department to defend those changes | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
yesterday. And then angered even more so when today, other parts of | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
government, Number ten macro and number 11 decided to dump the policy | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
and essentially dumping him right in it. Now, there is of course a very | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
different version of events. Senior government officials say they are | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
surprised that he suddenly walked away from something that he was | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
absolutely part of. But I think the real problem for the government, the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
biggest fundamental issue of all, is contained in his explosive | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
resignation letter. In the last line of that letter, he says, he believes | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
that the balance of cuts between different parts of society and | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
particular between young and old, he questions whether or not the | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
government has got that right, and he casts doubt on the government's | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
central mantra that we are all in this together. We have all heard | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
dozens of times the Prime Minister and the Chancellor in particular, | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
but other ministers as well, saying the cuts have to happen but we are | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
all in this together, the country's national interest, everyone's | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
interests come first but in his letter Iain Duncan Smith casts doubt | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
under that absolutely central claim and I think in the days to come that | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
will be very difficult indeed for the government to answer. Laura | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Kuenssberg at Downing Street. Salah Abdeslam - the fugitive wanted | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
in connection with the Paris terror attacks - is tonight | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
in police custody. Belgian authorities say | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
the 26-year-old was captured after a shoot out in a suburb | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
of Brussels late this afternoon, and that he was shot | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
and wounded in the leg. Four other suspects | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
were also arrested. Investigators believe Abdeslam | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
played a key role in the logistics of the Paris attacks, | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
renting one of the vehicles used Damian Grammaticas is in | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek for us tonight, where | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Abdeslam was captured. Yes, ever since those attacks in | :08:18. | :08:30. | |
November there has been a huge operation by French and Belgian | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
police to hunt down Salah Abdeslam. They know he left Paris in the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
aftermath and came back here to Brussels, and that search ended | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
today. But a warning in our report there are some flashing images. But | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the prosecutor said this afternoon was that Salah Abdeslam was traced | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
to this street here. He was unarmed, he tried to resist arrest, and he | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
was shot right here. GUNSHOTS. They've been hunting their prime | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
suspect for four months. On an ordinary Brussels street | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
today, they got him, He was wounded as he tried to escape | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
but now he's firmly in the grip Officers trained their weapons | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
on the surrounding buildings, wary of being targeted | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
as they bundled him away. Armoured units had moved | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
into the area around 4pm. It has been suggested that they had | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
a tip-off that Salah Abdeslam This is Molenbeek in Brussels, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
where he used to live and even | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
as police moved cautiously incredibly the road was still open, | :09:30. | :09:30. | |
traffic moving past them. Then there were shots and witnesses | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
said that grenades were fired too. And even as the ambulances | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
were heading towards the scene, police sources were already saying | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
they had captured Salah Abdeslam. For the Belgian police, | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
then, this seems to have been Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
from the Paris attacks, wounded in the leg and then it seems | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
arrested at the top of the street following those police | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
investigations that have been going on since the Paris attacks | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
which have traced him TRANSLATION: I heard | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
like firecrackers, apparently gunshots, but I don't know | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
what happened exactly. Belgian's prime minister | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Charles Michel rushed out of the summit of European leaders, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
taking place across town, He and his French counterpart | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Francois Hollande were following TRANSLATION: There have been arrests | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
already and there We know that the network was quite | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
widespread so until we have arrested all those who took part | :10:38. | :10:52. | |
in the terrorist network committed the abominable acts of war | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
on November the 13th, Prosecutors say that Salah Abdeslam | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
was a key part of the Paris attacks. There had been rumours that he may | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
have fled to Syria but just this afternoon investigators | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
said his fingerprint had been found at a flat they raided in Brussels | :11:07. | :11:07. | |
earlier in the week. It is thought he may have escaped | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
out of a back window as another man fired at officers to keep | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
them pinned down. And there were two major explosions | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
close together, as police continued their operation | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
into the evening. And the police raid has raised | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
tensions in Molenbeek. This evening, riot police | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
were brought in to deal with groups unhappy at the presence of so many | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
officers on the street. We know now that three of the people | :11:31. | :11:44. | |
arrested today were a family who were sheltering Salah Abdeslam. He | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
has been taken to hospital to be treated for his wounds. The French | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
president Francois Hollande has said the investigations will continue | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
because, he said, there are many, many more people who were involved | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
in the attacks. The questions Salah Abdeslam will have to answer, was he | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
meant to be one of the suicide bombers attacking Paris as well, and | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
what about the wider networks behind what happened there? Damian | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Grammaticas in Molenbeek in Eltham. -- Belgium. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Salah Abdeslam had been a wanted man ever since the attacks | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
It appears he may have been in Brussels the whole time. | :12:19. | :12:30. | |
For four months, police and intelligence services in France | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
and across Europe have been hunting for one man. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
And there will be many questions to ask him - including how | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
In the aftermath of the carnage of Paris, a manhunt began | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
for Salah Abdeslam, the attacker who got away. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Within hours of the attacks he was driven into Belgium. | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Police stopped him at a checkpoint but let him down because his name | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Days after the attacks, French police cornered | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
the ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Paris. | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
He was killed but Abdeslam remained at large. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
The authorities released these pictures of him at a petrol station, | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
and carried out dozens of raids, but the trail went cold. | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Some thought he had fled to Syria until tonight's dramatic | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Had Europe's most wanted man really managed to hide for four | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
Salah Abdeslam is a significant figure. | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
He is alleged to have organised much of the logistics | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
He rented rooms and hired cars and drove attackers around | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
But while the others died, including his own brother in this | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Perhaps because he backed out of using a suicide vest | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
The fact he was captured alive is also significant. | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
The next stage will be his interrogation, and if he talks, | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
he may be able to fill in crucial gaps in the investigation. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Understanding exactly how he got in and out of Europe, | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
the network that supplied them with weapons, the network of safe | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
houses and where they got explosives, these details might be | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Many more people were behind the Paris attacks | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
France's president said tonight that Abdeslam may know who some | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
So today was a success for the Belgian and French | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
But also, questions about why it took so long to find him. | :14:36. | :14:51. | |
European leaders have agreed a deal with Turkey, | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
aimed at stopping the flow of migrants and refugees | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
It means that from midnight on Sunday, all those | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
who cross into Greece will be sent back to Turkey, | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
In return, thousands of Syrian refugees already there, | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Our Europe editor Katya Adler has more. | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
The plan now is to ship the problem to Turkey. | :15:15. | :15:32. | |
Most migrant boats leave from its beaches, heading to Europe. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
The Turkish Prime Minister strode into Brussels today, | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
oozing confidence before a desperate EU. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Because he knew what the EU most wanted was to be able to say this. | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
Today, we have finally reached an agreement between | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
The agreement aimed at stopping the flow of irregular migration, | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
Under the deal, all migrants arriving in Greece after midnight | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
on Saturday will be sent back to Turkey if their asylum | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
In return, EU countries, not including Britain, | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
will take possibly tens of thousands of Syrian refugees directly | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
Sounds simple and straightforward enough, but in reality this | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
The EU wants to put off any and all migrants climbing | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
In return, Turkey wants 6 billion euros to help deal with migrants. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
It's demanded visa waivers for Turks for most of the EU, | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
and restarting stalled talks on eventual EU membership. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
There is no Turkish future without the EU and there is no EU | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
future without Turkey, so there is cooperation. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
But in this deal one of the partners is rather more equal than the other. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
The migration crisis has divided Europe, frightened its people | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
and emboldened populist politicians who pose a challenge to the leaders | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
In desperation, they've agreed to Turkey's steep demands | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
with the usual ifs and buts typical of EU agreements, and this deal | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
is legally, morally and practically so contentious that the wording | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
in public has been left deliberately opaque in many areas. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
EU lawyers and diplomats have performed contortions, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
trying to get around these thorny issues. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
This migrant boat was intercepted by Britain's HMS Enterprise, | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
helping stop people smuggling to Europe, this time via Libya, | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
where tens of thousands are thought to be waiting to make the crossing. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Turkey deal or not, the EU migrant crisis is far from over. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels. | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
Let's take a brief look at some of the day's other news. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Four policemen, one of them retired, have been arrested in connection | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
with allegations of fraud involving the Police Federation | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
An investigation by Surrey Police is looking into the alleged | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
transfer of ?1 million to a charitable account. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
The husband of the international concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
has been convicted of her murder at Manchester Crown Court. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
John Martin, who's 48, had denied strangling | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
and beating his wife to death, on their second wedding | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
after a teenager was shot dead in Birmingham. | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
The 18-year-old victim, named locally as Kenichi Phillips, | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
is the fourth person in six months to be fatally shot in the city. | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
In Brazil, a corruption scandal is threatening the administration | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
of President Dilma Rousseff, with her opponents launching | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
This week hundreds of thousands of protestors have taken | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
to the streets, demanding she stands down. | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
But her supporters say efforts to remove her amount | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
President Rousseff is accused of not doing enough to stamp out | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
corruption, amid an ongoing judicial investigation into the state | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
Her close ally - the former president, Lula Da Silva - | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Our correspondent Nick Bryant is in Sao Paulo for us tonight. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
There have been angry protests in more than 200 cities and some of the | :19:17. | :19:28. | |
biggest demonstrations that Brazil has ever seen. This is a country | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
that is reeling from the Zika virus and now it is confronting the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
biggest political crisis in 30 years. And all this as the country | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
prepares to host the summer Olympic Games. | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
It looks from the air like some giant carnival, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
But these are scenes of fury rather than joy. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
Mammoth demonstrations from Sao Paulo, the country's | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
largest city, to Copacabana beach in Rio, where there were more people | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
They are protesting the corruption that has contaminated Brazilian | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
politics, and targeting a former president, a man known simply | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
as Lula, who for millions has come to personify the country's | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
This protester called for all honest Brazilians to take to the streets. | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
This man said that he twice voted for Lula but regrets it now. | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
A politician who rose from Brazil's streets to become president, | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became a champion of the country's | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Five years after leaving office he is accused of taking bribes | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
Last week he was detained for questioning by prosecutors. | :20:42. | :20:53. | |
Now new president and close ally, Dilma Rousseff, has made | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
Lula her chief of staff, a post that offers him some | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
Their opponents say it is a barely concealed attempt | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
This was a pro-Lula rally in Sao Paulo where his followers | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
chanted that the judge leading the corruption probe | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
is trying to engineer a coup, that Brazil's elites are targeting | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
TRANSLATION: This judge is corrupt and illegal and we are here today | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
But for all the fervour, the government has lost some | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
of its lustre, even among supporters because the country is in the midst | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Brazil is facing a political crisis, an economic crisis, a health crisis | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Moves are gathering pace to impeach President Rousseff, | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
The country that overtook Britain to become the world's sixth largest | :21:48. | :21:59. | |
economy is in a political firestorm that has gone right | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
The actions of its beleaguered president have fuelled | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
England's cricketers have secured an historic victory over | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
South Africa at the T20 World Cup in India. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
England had been set an unlikely target of 230 to win, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
but secured victory with just two balls to spare. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
It was the highest successful run chase at a T20 World Cup, | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
A year ago the Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton had | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
But today, she exceeded all expectations at one of horse | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
racing's greatest festivals at Cheltenham, crossing | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
the finishing line a respectable fifth in an amateur race. | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
Bookies were taking bets she wouldn't finish. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Earlier, the Gold Cup was won by favourite Don Cossack. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
The first bumpy ride of Victoria Pendleton's day - | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
That slightly nervous laugh said it all. | :22:58. | :23:07. | |
Some bookies felt she was more likely to fall off than get round, | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
and she set off on Pacha Du Polder with understandable caution. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
She was in last place as they leapt the first, | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
but as the race wore on she grew in confidence and pace, | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
surging through the pack to finish a very creditable fifth. | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
The smile and the thumbs up said it all, the doubters silenced | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
No fairy tale win then, but that was some performance | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
After all the hype, how she's proved her critics wrong. | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
If it had been another two furlongs I reckon I could have | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
got in the mix, but it happened so quickly. | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
It was almost like my first race all over again, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
But the biggest prize of the day was the Gold Cup. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
Home hopes lay with Cue Card, but three out they came crashing | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
Both horse and jockey, thankfully unhurt. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
But that left the way clear for favourite Don Cossack to deliver | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
yet another victory here for Ireland. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
Delight for jockey Bryan Cooper and for trainer Gordon Elliott, | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
as Cheltenham saluted its heroes, but this was a day not just | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
about the winning but about the taking part. | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Let's return to our main story tonight, | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
the resignation of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
and speak again to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Downing | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
The timing of the resignation, what do you make of it? Well in politics, | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
as in so many things, timing is very often all. This isn't just a huge | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
slap in the face for the government, especially George Osborne, 48 hours | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
after the budget, but the Conservative powers are embroiled in | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
very difficult internal arguments over the campaign over whether or | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
not we should leave the European Union or not. Iain Duncan Smith was | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
none of the most prominent faces in the campaign to exit the EU and many | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
people in the Cabinet and Conservative Party are suggesting | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
that his departure has got more to do with the fact that he wants to | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
walk out of the EU than the fact that he had become unhappy about | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
policies that his own department had been designing. But whichever of | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
those is true, whether it is about the EU or not, this throws petrol | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
onto the fiery argument is taking place in the Tory party over the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
European Union campaign and it is a gift for the Labour Party. In the | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
last few minutes Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of being in | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
disarray and they've even called on George Osborne to resign. A | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
government source said that is ridiculous but it is difficult | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
because the man who was at the forefront of designing and fronting | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
up many of the government's cuts has said that many of them have now gone | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
too far. Thank you for joining us. That's it. | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :26:08. | :26:08. |