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The government minister Grant Shapps has resigned over claims he failed | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
to act against alleged bullying within the Conservative party. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Mr Shapps is said to have ignored warnings while Party Chairman | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
about the head of the youth wing, Mark Clarke, who was expelled | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
earlier this month, after the apparent suicide of young activist. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
In his resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Grant Shapps | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
said although he had no record of allegations reaching his office, | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Here's our Political Correspondent Carole Walker. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
As Conservative Party chairman, Grant Shapps was responsible for | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
running the party machine and overseeing campaigns, including the | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
successful general election battle earlier this year. Now he's resigned | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
as a government minister over claims he fails to act on allegations about | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
the behaviour of this man, Mark Clark, former candidate who ran a | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
youth campaign group. Mr Clarke has been expelled from the Tory party | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
but denies all the allegations against him. An internal | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
investigation is under way into the death in September of Elliot | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Johnson, our young activists Britton a young activist who claimed he was | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
bullied by Mark Clarke. Grant Shapps said though he could find no record | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
of allegations of bullying, sexual abuse or blackmail referred to his | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
office... the Prime Minister in Malta said his | :01:46. | :02:03. | |
thoughts and prayers were with Elliot Johnson's family. What I'd | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
say is that it is a tragic loss of a talented young life. It's not | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
something any parent should have to go through. I feel for them deeply. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
What the Conservative Party must do, what it is doing, what I ensure it | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
is happening, is that there is a proper investigation. Elliot | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Johnson, who was 21, was found dead on railway tracks on the 15th of | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
September. His death is being investigated by the coroner. His | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
father welcomed Mr Schaap 's's designation but told us questions | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
remain over how the party dealt with his son's death. I'm pleased Mr | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Schaap 's has made this decision, it's taken an awful long time for | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
him to make that decision, but I'm glad he has fallen on his own sword. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
We have to remember that Grant Shapps was only co-chairmen, there's | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
another co-chairman who takes full responsibility for what's been | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
happening in the organisation. Downing Street say the current | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
chairman has the full confidence of the Prime Minister but Labour say | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
the Conservative Party needs to come clean about who knew what and why no | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
action was taken earlier. Carole Walker, does Grant Shapps's | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
resignation draw a line under this affair? The difficulty for the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Conservative Party is you've not just got his political opponents, | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
but as you heard, the father of Elliot Johnson, saying he still | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
feels others have questions to be answered. The Conservative Party are | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
saying there is this investigation going on, it's being headed by an | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
independent lawyer. And he will look at all of these things, all these | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
questions about how the allegations were dealt with. I understand they | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
are talking to some 40 witnesses, but that inquiry won't be concluded, | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
no report published, until a separate investigation being carried | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
out by a coroner into Elliot Johnson's death. It may be quite | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
some time until all of this is resolved. This is clearly an | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
unwarranted but serious distraction for David Cameron, as he's dealing | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
with huge international issues, but he knows this has to be dealt with | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
seriously and thoroughly if the party is to put it behind them. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Government ministers are spending part of their weekend ringing | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Labour MPs to try to build support for British air strikes in Syria. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is opposed to British | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
involvement, is also asking party members for their views. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
Labour remains deeply divided over military action. | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
A series of protests have taken place | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
across the country today, opposing UK involvement in air strikes. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
A shooting at a clinic that carries out abortions in Colorado Springs | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
in the US has left two civilians and a police officer dead, with | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Nine other people were injured during the standoff at the clinic, | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
which lasted five hours, before the suspect surrendered. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
It's run by the group Planned Parenthood, which has | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
"truly saddened" by the downing of the Russian warplane and he said he | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
It's the first expression of regret since Tuesday's incident | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
in which an SU-24 was brought down by two Turkish fighter jets. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Turkey claimed the bomber had violated its airspace. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Russia's conducting extensive attacks on militant targets | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
The Queen has completed a three day visit to Malta. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
At a banquet for leaders of Commonwealth countries, she | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
joked that Canada's young new leader made her feel old, when he spoke | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports from Valletta. | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
Thank you, Mr Prime Minister of Canada, for making me feel so old. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
LAUGHTER It was an unscripted aside to Commonwealth leaders. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Elizabeth II, Queen, head of the Commonwealth, still doing her | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
But with advancing years come questions about the future and, for | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
The Princess and the Duke meet in the George Cross Island and pose | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
Malta is the only country apart from Britain | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
which has been her home, for nearly two years, in the early 1950s. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Today, then, was a day for nostalgia. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Visiting Malta is always very special for me, I remember happy | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
days here with Prince Philip when we were first married. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
She gazed out again at Valletta harbour. | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
A moment for reflection, perhaps, for someone who will never step | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
back from her role as mono, but who is ready, it appears, to | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
delegate more of her Commonwealth duties to her eldest son. | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
She boarded a boat to take her across the harbour. | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
The bells of Malta's capital city rang out. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
And there were cheers from the crew of HMS Bulwark, all in her honour. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
There's a very real sense of a wheel turning full circle, | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
of at least the Commonwealth component of the Queen's duties | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
The next Commonwealth summit will be in the United Kingdom in the spring | :07:06. | :07:19. | |
of 2018, when the sense of transition from Elizabeth to Charles | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Tennis - and Great Britain are just a point away from lifting the | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years - after brothers Andy | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
and Jamie Murray won their doubles match this afternoon in Belgium. | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
Straight now to our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson, | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
The spectators heading home, may be heading to a bar, might have felt | :07:40. | :07:53. | |
they saw some decisive action in the Davis Cup final, Britain are 2-1 up | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
with two matches and two points available tomorrow, the first to | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
three wins it. The whole of British tennis has good reason to thank one | :08:04. | :08:04. | |
Scottish family. The Murray brothers are individuals | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
who grew up spurred on by a natural I think you're more shrewd with | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
that, Yes, more of a loser often as well, | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
unfortunately. Doubles is a team event, of course, | :08:17. | :08:28. | |
but sometimes one player takes In the opening exchanges | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
it was often Andy. That is what | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
the Davis Cup can do to you. Britain came back down to earth | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
in the second set when Jamie's serve was broken decisively | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
and the experimental Belgian pair of The second set to Belgium | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
and the noise in here reaches The home crowd's attempt to promote | :08:50. | :09:02. | |
their men was undeniably impressive and a bit surreal, but one player | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
really stood out in this match. In the third set, | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Andy Murray held his serve whilst The fourth set, | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
Andy Murray's service game, love-30, under pressure, | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
well here is a way to escape. The Belgian pair could not | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
consistently compete at the Murrays' Darcis in particular making errors, | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
including the final one. This victory puts Britain | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
on the brink. To take the Davis Cup they must win | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
one of the two singles matches you can see more on all of those | :09:39. | :09:53. | |
stories | :09:54. | :09:54. |