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Another Conservative MP defects to UKIP. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Today I am leaving the Conservative party and joining... | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Mark Reckless made the announcement at UKIP's annual conference. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
It'll trigger a by-election the party leader hopes they'll win. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
He has shown he has given up with the leadership of the Conservative | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
party, frankly not believing their sincerity. | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
He has thrown his lot in with us and we will do everything we can to | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
And in another loss for the Tories, a minister resigns following | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
As the Conservatives gather for their party conference we'll be | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
British jets fly their first combat missions over Iraq since MPs backed | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
And Europe have a commanding lead going | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
On the eve of the Conservative Party conference, a second Tory MP has | :00:57. | :01:27. | |
The defection of Mark Reckless follows that of Douglas Carswell | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
It means there'll now be a by-election in the constituency | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
The chair of the local Conservatives there said he was | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
"astonished and disgusted" by Mr Reckless's decision. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
And there was further bad news for the Conservatives this evening. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Cabinet Office minister Brooks Newmark said he was leaving the | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
government after the Sunday Mirror alleged he sent sexually explicit | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins reports. | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
I would like you, please, to give a warm welcome to somebody | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Nigel Farage had another nasty surprise for Conservatives. | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
Today, I am leaving the Conservative party... | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Once again, a Tory MP defecting to UKIP. | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
It is a decision that is born of a belief that Britain can be better. | :02:28. | :02:40. | |
First one Tory defector, now another. | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
On the eve of the Conservative conference, he poses the question, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
how many more to go, how much more damage can UKIP do to | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Only one month has passed since UKIP was cheering its first defection | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
this year, then the Tory backbencher Douglas Carswell decided to resign | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
I believe I can do more in UKIP to get our country back, to get us out | :02:58. | :03:14. | |
of the European Union, to cut immigration, to bring in political | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
reform, to do all the things that I promised with David Cameron as a | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
Conservative that we would do, but none of those things we have done. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
He is now part of this political family. | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
He has shown he has given up with the leadership of the Conservative | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
party, frankly not believing their sincerity. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
He has thrown his lot in with us and we will do everything we can to | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
But UKIP's newest recruit will have a tough job winning in | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
I am very surprised, I know him extremely well and he's probably | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
one of the last people that I would have thought would do such a thing. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Not surprised, but he will never get my vote. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Prime Minister, are the wheels coming off already? | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Not the sort of question David Cameron or anyone else in | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
his party wanted to hear on arriving for their conference in Birmingham. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
I think the surprising thing is Mark says he wants lower taxes, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
immigration control, a referendum on Europe, but that is | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
exactly what we are planning to deliver and so I think this decision | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
To add to Tory woes, this evening this minister, Brooks | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
Newmark, resigned over allegations in tomorrow's Sunday Mirrorthat he | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
has sent sexually explicit images of himself over social media. | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
It leaves UKIP with plenty to chant about and high hopes that he will | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
not be the last Tory MP to put a smile on Nigel Farage's face. | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
Our deputy political editor James Landale is in Birmingham, where | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
What a way to have to start a conference? | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
Yes, it is not the way David Cameron would want to study conference. The | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
resignation of Brooks Newmark is embarrassing but politically not | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
that important. More significant is the defection of Mark Reckless. It | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
means that this conference will be overshadowed. There will be a | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
political parlour game of hunt the next effect. That is talk of another | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
one coming up. The defection shows the scale of the gap that now exists | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
between David Cameron and some of his backbenchers, particularly those | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
on the right. Grumbles that have become -- grumbles that have become | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
rebellions are now turning into defections. This means that over the | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
coming weeks, the Conservatives will not be focused on the economy but | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Europe and internal division. Two things that are unattractive to all | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
those floating voters out there that the Tories really need if they are | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
to win the next election. The slogan for the conference behind me, | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
securing a better future, what right now the Conservatives are focused on | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
securing a better tomorrow. Well, away from the resignations, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
the Conservatives today pledged to help first-time buyers under | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
the age of 40 to buy a home if They say they'll build 100,000 new | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
homes and offer them at 20% This is how party conferences are | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
meant to start, with a carefully Housing is now a big political | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
battleground, so David Cameron put on his wellies and went to Didcot to | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
make the Conservative party's latest We want to build less expensive | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
homes for young people who work hard to buy, and that means exempting | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
them from the usual regulations and charges and saying, it is your home, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
you have worked hard, you have got to be under 40 to buy it, but it | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
cannot be bought by foreigners, buy to let landlords or people who | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
want to turn a quick buck. The Prime Minister says that | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
if elected he would build 100,000 homes in England at a 20% discount | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
for first-time buyers. He says that is possible | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
because they would be built on brownfield sites or places | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
which had been used previously. The new homes would also be exempt | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
from some taxes, energy standards and the requirement by some builders | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
to provide social housing. This is who | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the scheme is meant to help. Like thousands of young people, | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Rachel Knight is living in the spare rooms | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
of her partner's parents' house. Saving money, striving to buy | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
a place of their own. I think there will be a lot of | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
competition which will ultimately I think as well, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
I question if the government were re-elected, how quickly would they | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
be able to make that possible? Labour has said it would build | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
200,000 new homes a year by 2020. Today's proposals were welcomed | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
by the big homebuilders but some questioned the quality | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
of homes to be built. Will we miss the energy efficiency | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
standard that is currently built into all new homes | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
across the country and are people going to be acquiring a substandard | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
property which they will then have New homes | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
like these are being built but for many years demand has outstripped | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
supply, pushing up prices. Frustrated first-time buyers | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
and their anxious parents are a big slice of the electorate, | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
so the political parties are trying to outbid each other with | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
their promises to build. The Conservative party knows | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
a recovering economy may not be enough to win the election, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
which is why they will be desperate to refocus this conference on | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
the question of what happens next. British fighter jets have flown | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
their first combat missions over Iraq since Parliament voted to | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
approve air strikes against Two Tornado aircraft carrying | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
laser-guided missiles took off from Cyprus on | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
an operation lasting several hours. Our defence correspondent | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
Jonathan Beale reports from For RAF pilots, | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
this is the march to war. We were allowed to film them | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
as they prepared for their first combat mission | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
against Islamic State in Iraq. Laserguided bombs | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
and missiles already loaded and armed with two of the six Tornadoes | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
based in Cyprus poised to launch This is potentially the first combat | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
mission for RAF Tornadoes, the first time they have been authorised to | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
engage targets on the ground. The start | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
of what could be another long war. As they took off, | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
there were no details about their mission, no guarantees | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
they would be firing their weapons, and back in London, there was no | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
attempt to overstate our role We are one part | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
of a large international coalition but a crucial part | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
of that coalition is that it is led by the Iraqi government, | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
the legitimate government of Iraq We are there to play our part | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
and help deal with this appalling America is coordinating | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
and leading this military campaign. Today America released more images | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
of its latest strikes which they have been carrying out | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
for more than one month. Britain, whose Tornadoes have | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
until now only been flying reconnaissance missions, is joining | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the fight as the enemy adapts. Those who have flown | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
on combat missions over Iraq before believe finding targets from | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
the air will only become harder. With 30,000 fighters hiding in | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
villages, houses, mixing with the civilian population, it would be | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
impossible to kill each and every one of them, and history has shown | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
us that even if we do attack them, This evening | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
the two Tornado jets returned to The MoD says that no targets were | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
identified They will be flying more combat | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
missions but his fight will not With all the sport, here's John | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
Watson at the BBC Sport Centre. Europe have dominated day two | :11:04. | :11:15. | |
of the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles to extend their | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
advantage over the United States. Paul McGinlay's team lead 10-6 going | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
into tomorrow's singles matches and remain well placed to retain | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
the trophy. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
reports. Another Don, another dinner. The | :11:26. | :11:41. | |
early-morning air crackling with European confidence and it first it | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
seemed fully justified. Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson with a record 12 | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
birdies in a winner for most ridiculous quality. Then came the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
comeback, the US raced to the next two matches and threatened to draw | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
level. Until the short of the day. Ian Poulter scrambled a drawing | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
spellbinding style. The eyes bulged, the fists pumped, the fans loved it | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
but it was still America's morning. The UDP and players heading into the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
afternoon with a slender 1-point lead. They know the pressure is | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
mounting but can they hold their nerve? The answer was in fact it as | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
the unheralded players like Victor Dubuisson set about grabbing the | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
limelight. The more famous names also chipped in, Rory McIlroy | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
winning with Sergio Garcia. The feel-good factor was back well | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
America's wilted. They won just half a point in the afternoon as the | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
hosts seized a commanding lead. Two years ago, the US led 10-6 and lost. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
Europe will be hoping to prove miracles only happen once. | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Highlights of all today's eight Premier League | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
games follow this bulletin on BBC One in Match Of The Day, | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
so if you want to wait to find out what happened then look away now. | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Bragging rights were shared in the first Merseyside derby | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Steven Gerrard gave Liverpool the lead at Anfield. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
But Everton's Phil Jagielka scored with a spectacular strike | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
It was also derby day in north London. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Nacer Chadli gave Tottenham the lead at the Emirates stadium, | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's first goal of the season ensured a draw. | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Elsewhere, Chelsea remain top of the league | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
Crystal Palace continued their unbeaten run under | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Edin Dzeko scored twice as Manchester City beat Hull 4-2. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
England captain Wayne Rooney scored, but was then sent off in Manchester | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
And second-placed Southampton made it six wins in a row | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
In the Scottish Premiership there were wins for Dundee United, | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
Aberdeen, Hamilton, Kilmarnock and Ross County. | :14:04. | :14:04. | |
Champions Celtic, though, remain fourth after two goals | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
from on-loan Manchester City striker John Guidetti helped them to | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
Andy Murray is through to his first final since winning | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
Wimbledon last year after beating Argentina's Juan Monaco | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
Murray made a poor start to the match, losing the first set 6-2. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
But he fought back to take the second set 6-3 | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
and win nine games in a row, racing through the decider 6-0. | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Murray will face Tommy Robredo in tomorrow's final. | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
And now for some news that may break a million hearts. | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
The Hollywood actor George Clooney has got married to British human | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in a star-studded ceremony in Venice. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Arriving at the luxury Aman hotel by water taxi, surrounded by paparazzi, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Clooney waved to the crowds before going inside to end his reign as | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
The couple are expected to also have a civil ceremony on Monday. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
There's more on today's stories on the BBC News Channel, | :15:11. | :15:13. |