11/06/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten: Theresa May says she intends to serve a full term

as Prime Minister and is getting on with the job.

Speaking after a reshuffle of her cabinet, she brushed aside

criticism that she's now a caretaker leader.

I said during the election campaign that if elected

I would serve a full term, but what I am doing now is actually

But the Conservative chancellor she sacked says she's

Theresa May is a dead woman walking, it's just how long

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he's ready "any time"

to fight another election, as talks continue

between the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionists.

Police release new images of the Manchester Arena bomber

and say they're now sure he made the device alone.

President Macron looks set to win an overwelming

majority for his new party in France's Parliamentary elections.

And England's footballers win the World Cup - at under 20 level.

Theresa May says she intends to serve a full term

as Prime Minister and is "getting on with the job."

She was speaking this evening after reshuffling her cabinet

and said what the public wanted to see was "government providing

But she's faced more criticism today, with the former chancellor

George Osborne saying the election result left her too vulnerable and

And the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he's ready "any time"

Here's our Political Correspondent Vicki Young.

She's putting on a brave face, but Theresa May knows she has

The shock of election night is still sinking in.

After church this morning, the Prime Minister rang

round colleagues who'd been defeated on Thursday.

She's in office for now, but for how much longer?

I said during the election campaign that, if re-elected,

But what I am doing now is actually getting on with the immediate job

and I think that's what's important, I think that's what the

They want to see governments providing that

But senior Conservatives have demanded changes.

It is going to require a different approach.

We are going to see, I hope, more collective

I and other senior colleagues have made that clear

to her and I think you will also see that she will want to work

much more closely with the Parliamentary party.

And this was the first sign that Mrs May has been

Her old enemy, Michael Gove, who she sacked, returns

to the Cabinet as Environment Secretary.

And he'll be sitting alongside Boris Johnson.

The two men spectacularly fell out over the Tory

Today, the Foreign Secretary denied he was plotting another

Just a little wave for Michael Gove, best friends?

Jeremy Corbyn did not win this election.

It is absolutely right that she should go ahead,

form a government and deliver on the priorities of the people.

I am going to be backing her, absolutely everybody I'm

talking to is going to be backing her, as well.

He has obviously not spoken to this former colleague.

It is just how long she will remain on death row.

In other words, we could easily get to the middle of next week and it

The Labour leader says Theresa May's position

is vulnerable and he is ready for another general election.

We cannot go on with a period of great instability.

We have a programme, we have the support and we are ready

to fight another election campaign as soon as may be,

because we want to be able to serve the people of this country.

Controversial policies like grammar schools,

social care and pension changes may bite the dust.

There is no point in sailing ahead with items that

were in the manifesto, which we will not get

To get anything done, the Conservatives need

They are trying to do a deal with Northern Ireland's ten

Today, both sides suggested that the principles

We had very good discussions yesterday with the Conservative

Party in relation to how we could support them in forming

a national government, one that would bring stability

We have made good progress, but the discussions continue.

After such a bad political miscalculation, most leaders

would be forced out, but many Tory MPs do not

have the appetite for a distracting leadership contest just as Brexit

And they certainly don't want to risk a second general election.

For now, Theresa May's colleagues are rallying behind her,

but she is certainly not in charge of her own political destiny.

Vicki Young, BBC News, Downing Street.

Well, with negotiations on Brexit due to begin in days,

where does all the current political upheaval leave the Government's

Our Political Correspondent Ben Wright has been

There's some flash photography in his report.

Almost a year ago, Britain voted to leave the EU,

but last week's chaotic election result has reopened the argument

over how, on what terms, on the priorities, the tactics -

just days before divorce talks with the EU are due to start.

Some Tory MPs are demanding Theresa May has a rethink.

She's now got to make sure that she understands

that the British people have rejected a hard Brexit.

I don't think there's any change there, but we're not going to be

leaving the EU in some irresponsible way that will damage our

country and, of course, the future generations.

A manifesto to see us through Brexit and beyond.

Theresa May had wanted a strong mandate from voters for this,

the Tories manifesto, which set out their aims for Brexit.

It promised to take Britain out of the single market

and have control over the EU migration to Britain.

To strike new free-trade deals with the EU and other countries.

Theresa May also said no Brexit deal was better than a bad one,

Every Conservative Scottish, English and Welsh MP

was elected on our manifesto, so obviously, we deliver

the plans in that manifesto as best we can, including,

Even though Theresa May didn't win the election outright,

today ministers insisted the government's Brexit

strategy hadn't changed, but the political reality has.

Roughly half of Tory MPs in the House of Commons backed

Remain in last year's referendum, and now, after this electoral

humiliation, they may feel emboldened to try and water down

But the Prime Minister is trapped, because the other half

of her Parliamentary party, also livid about this election

result, will be furious if there is any compromise.

One pro-EU Tory grandee was scathing.

Brexit is the cancer gnawing at the heart

of the Conservative Party, and there's a lot of talk

But it's not about changing just the leader, it's

There is no appetite or mandate in Parliament

Like the Tories, Labour has committed to leaving the EU.

We are respecting the decision of the referendum.

I think people will interpret membership of the single market

Others in Labour say it's time to get the whole of Parliament

Now there should be a sort of cross party commission or group set up

to try and take forward those negotiations in a way that is open,

thoughtful, consensual, that accepts that not everybody

is going to get the deal that they want.

All this confusion comes two months after Britain formally handed

So as talks with the DUP continue, what are voters making

of all the uncertainty, especially when it comes to Brexit?

Elaine Dunkley has been to Birmingham to find out,

a city evenly split between remain and leave

Birmingham - one of the most divided cities in the UK

But can people here agree on the best course

I want to know what's happening with jobs.

I want to know what is going to happen with

This area had the highest number of leave voters in last

To be honest, since Brexit was introduced,

And since all the confusion, people are holding back the money.

Our main clients are not spending the money like they did.

Imports and exports will be harder, unless we get the right deals.

That is what May has got to fight for.

To be honest, I don't really understand what

I don't think many people really understand what happens.

Next stop Moseley, where people overwhelmingly voted to remain

With regards to the DUP, they are quite sensible in the sense

that they will want hospitals, schools and roads in

Northern Ireland, which they can get as a result

of the arrangement with the Conservatives.

So, on balance, it is actually a good result.

Is Theresa May the right person to do the negotiation?

I think that the fiasco pretty much since last June,

in terms of how she has run the party, hasn't helped her.

I think it makes her look small in front of the Europeans.

In Brussels, the EU has its negotiating position

Meanwhile here, the debate about how to keep Europe as a friend

Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont and our

Deputy Political Editor Jon Pienaar is in Downing Street.

Chris, the leader of the DUP Arlene Foster, she is in London to meet the

Prime Minister on Tuesday. What does she want in return for her support?

There has been a lot of talk on the DUP's stance on gay marriage and

abortion, but I have no down that the DUP's priority is money not

morality. Northern Ireland gets more per head in terms of public funding,

but its economy and public services here need investment so we expect

the DUP to ask for cash. They will also want a say on Brexit

negotiations and strengthening the different parts of the UK to bring

the union together. What is happening in Westminster will have

an impact instalment. When negotiations about power sharing are

due to morrow, it will be difficult if the DUP are propping up the

Conservatives, to see them as honest brokers for Theresa May's government

as facilitators and that is why we have had a statement from the Irish

Prime Minister warning that nothing should be done to jeopardise the

Good Friday agreement. John, Theresa May has said she will serve a full

term as Prime Minister. Just how safe is she? That ability of today's

reshuffle was evidence of her vulnerability. No significant

movement and the promotion of a pro-European had to be balanced by

bringing Michael Gove in from the cold. Today, the Tory MP 's

chairman, Graham Brady, maybe the most discreet the powerful figure at

on the backbenches won't have that anything that upsets those MPs risks

defeat and the most reliably on message minister in the cabinet,

Michael Fallon, warned her she had better listen or risk a mutiny. She

looked like a Prime Minister strapped into an ejector seat with a

100 fingers hovering over the button. I do not think we should

expect a challenge to Theresa May, but there is little or nothing to

loyalty and everything to the party's deepest instincts to

self-preservation. Tories do not think they could handle a challenge

this close to Brexit talks and they fear the possibility of a second

election. Her position looks painful, her parties looked

uncomfortable and it can't be ideal for a country expecting something

more stable, more stronger so close to Brexit.

Police have released new images of the Manchester Arena bomber,

saying they now fully understand the movements of Salman Abedi

almost hour by hour in the week's leading up

Detectives say he was in and out of the country,

and that they understand how he obtained the chemicals

They're also now sure he made the device alone.

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford.

It was in this white Nissan Micra bought just two days before he left

for Libya that police believe the Manchester Ballmer store the parts

to make his device. In plastic barrels police found later in the

car. Salman Abedi flew out of the country on April 15 and arrived back

in Manchester on May 18. He was caught on CCTV with a blue suitcase

going backwards and forwards to the flats where the white car was

parked. Detectives believe he was collecting preprepared bomb parts

from the car for him to assemble alone at this flat in central

Manchester. In a statement police investigating the bomber said, we

understand how the chemicals and equipment were obtained and where

the bomb was assembled. We understand where he has been the

days before the explosion almost hour by hour. Detectives are still

searching a landfill site in the hopes of finding the blue suitcase

which could contain crucial evidence. Police investigating the

Manchester attack originally talked of a network, 20 people were

detained in the UK and a senior officer said some of the arrests

were very significant, but today the last of those arrested was released

leaving just some minor Bedi, who is dead, and his brother who is being

held in Libya. Detectives say they want to talk to the brother who left

the country with his older brother on the 15th of April. He is being

detained by the Libyan Ministry of interior 's specials deterrent

force. All the roads point to Libya, it is not a country that we can

operate with with any due certainty. Investigations will be difficult for

British police within Libya. Police say some of the men they arrested

and released appear to have bought materials that can be used to make

explosives and some were in contact with Salman Abedi in the last few

days, but detectives say at this time they are satisfied with their

explanations. In Libya, the notorious son

of the country's former leader Colonel Gaddafi is reported to have

been released from prison. A militia group controlling the town

of Zintan in the west of the country says it's freed Saif

al-Islam after six years in jail. He's still wanted for war crimes

by the International Criminal Court. From Libya, our Middle East

correspondent Orla Guerin reports. For years, the public

face of a hated regime. He was Colonel Gaddafi's heir

apparent, expected to inherit That was before his capture

during the uprising of 2011. He was detained by rebel fighters

as he tried to flee to Niger. Later he appeared minus a few

fingers - the result He was sentenced to death by a court

in Tripoli for brutality during the Revolution,

and he's still wanted by the International Criminal Court

in the Hague on war crimes charges. Tripoli's Martyrs Square,

cradle of the revolution, was the picture of calm today,

but the release of Saif al-Islam could deepen

old wounds and new divisions Those who gathered here

in the square six years ago, celebrating freedom,

hoped they had seen Now they have to adjust

to the fact that the dictator's Many will see this as a betrayal

of the revolution, of those But the Gaddafi name

still carries power here. So much so that none of those

we spoke to around the square Not such a surprise, perhaps,

when you consider Libya's descent into chaos since

the fall of Gaddafi. This man told us, better

the devil you know. I think he is from the young

generation, he says, In the past, Saif al-Islam commanded

considerable support, and in parts of the country

he still does. His backers will be hoping

he returns to the political fray. In France, the new President

Emmanuel Macron is trying to cement his grip

on power in the country's Early indications, after the first

round of voting, suggest that Mr Macron could be on course

to secure a big majority for his party which was

only formed a year ago. Our Paris Correspondent Lucy

Williamson has the latest. Five weeks after snatching

the presidency from more experienced hands, Emmanuel Macron is doing

the same with the parliament. His party La Republique En Marche

is on track for a landslide. Little more than a year

after it was formed. The run-off vote next Sunday will

decide the exact number of seats, but at party HQ they are already

looking ahead to government. TRANSLATION: The significance

of this result is clear, but we must show humility

and determination to beat the big President Macron voted at his home

in Le Touquet today, not as a candidate this time,

but as the man elected While the polling station of far

right leader Marine Le Pen, fighting for a seat in the country's

north-east, was marked Her party, once predicted

to win up to 80 seats, is now expected to get no more

than a handful. TRANSLATION: Front National

supporters must turn out It's essential that we win seats

so we can oppose the catastrophic politics of Mr Macron,

which include destroying Mr Macron's party could end up

controlling around three quarters of the French parliament,

with the centre-right Republicans forming the backbone

of a shrunken opposition. He wants to push his reforms

as quickly as possible. The problem is the lack

of opposition in the next Parliament will bring opposition elsewhere,

and that opposition might be in the streets, and the French

are very good at bringing opposition A clear majority would be a big

help to the new president in tackling France's

intractable labour laws. But any majority he does

get is likely to need The party draws its candidates

from the old centre-left and centre-right, with half of them

new to politics entirely. Next Sunday's the vote will begin

a new political era, new to voters, president

and parliamentarians alike. Football, and Wales have

drawn their latest World Cup It was Aaron Ramsey who opened

the scoring from the penalty spot, but Serbia drew level in the second

half, Newcastle's Alexander Wales have now drawn 5 of their 6

matches as they try to make it through to next summer's tournament

in Russia. It's been a long time coming,

but England have won their first football World Cup, at any age

group, since 1966. The young lions of the under 20s

team lifted the trophy Our Sports Correspondent

Andy Swiss was watching. COMMENTATOR: England,

World Cup winners. It's taken a mere 51 years,

but once again, English football The so-called Young Lions

turning their promise Paul Simpson's side began

as favourites again Venezuelan, and when Dominic Calvert-Lewin lot

of them ahead, the trophy But after the break,

Venezuela were handed a lifeline. Penalty, that age-old scourge

of English football, COMMENTATOR: And it's

kept out by Woodman. And if England thought

it was all over, well, it was now. COMMENTATOR: And England have won

the under 20 World Cup. Most of these players have little

Premier League experience, and, as their triumph was shared

by England's senior team at their training camp,

that is now their challenge. The aim is now that those players

come through to the seniors, and a big part of that now

is for them to get opportunities with their clubs, because I think

they have shown, if at under 20s we are world champions,

then there's enough players there to fulfil careers in the game

without clubs looking elsewhere. But at last those indelible images

of England's only other World Cup Yes, success at senior

level is still some leap, but after years of looking

to the past, a day to You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. It's time for the news

where you are. Back now to goings on at

Westminster in the wake of Thursday's general election -

and specifically Theresa May's Speaking earlier this evening,

the Prime Minister explained why At this time, we need

stability and certainty, that is what I've done today,

putting together our Cabinet that reflects the experience

across the Conservative Party, a Cabinet that will get

on with government and get on with delivering successful Brexit

negotiations that start But we also need to do with

the social issues in our country. Tackling issues around mental

health, ensuring technical education for young people,

tackling the housing crisis. This is what my cabinet

and government will be The big news today,

obviously, the return Are you now in a situation

where you are so weakened by the election that you have no

choice but to put influential adversaries at the top table, proof,

in the words of George Osborne, What I've seen is people

across the party accepting the invitation to be in my cabinet

and I've bought in talent This is a government that is going

to be governing for everyone, we want to country that works

for everyone, bring talent together to ensure we can get on with the job

of delivering a successful Brexit but also deal with some

of the challenges that people see in their everyday lives like dealing

with the need for more housing. Ensuring that we have a proper

mental health legislation to support people and providing that technical

education for young people. I'm pleased that people

from across the party have agreed to serve in my cabinet and we're

going to be getting It's obviously been a very

difficult few days for you, both personally and politically

I would imagine. What I am feeling is that actually

there is a job to be done and what the public want

is to ensure the government I've appointed cabinet

ministers today, I will be Ms On Tuesday I will go to France

for meetings with President Macron. We need to get on with Brexit

preparations and also deal with the challenges in people

was a very everyday lives. This is the government

getting on with work we need to do is to ensure

that we are being a government that will govern the everyone,

that with across the country. We will see people able to make

the most of their lives. This is a government

getting on with the job. Some of your colleagues have

suggested you might be To be clear for the record,

do you intend to serve a full term? I said during the election campaign

that I would serve a full term. What I'm doing now is getting

on with the immediate job. I think that's what is important,

what the public expect. They want to see

government providing that At what is a critical

time for the country. The Brexit negotiations

started just a week, we need to get those right and make

a success of it. But there are other issues

we need to address. We have listened to voters

and that is what we will be doing. Blustery across the board and that

continues as we finish the day and go into the night. Still quite

breezy. Further showers for Northern Ireland and North and West Scotland.

Compared to what we saw to take us into Sunday, a site leak all night

but still temperatures in double figures. Winds will strengthen a

time. We could see winds gusting 30, 40 mph week. A few showers around at

this stage across Scotland, particularly in the West. Bright

skies here and there but one or two showers in Northern Ireland. Into

England and Wales, a few glimpses of sunshine. If you like showers.

Longer spells of sunshine towards the Channel Islands and as the ridge

of high pressure starts to building, any showers will fade away. If you

showers into the afternoon. The best of the sunshine to the south and

east. Most of us will be dry and temperatures down the eastern half

of the country, 19, 20 Celsius. Monday evening we will see a dry

start but things will change. A ridge of high pressure to the

south-west. Increased amounts of cloud to the northern half of the

UK. That cloud will bring the odd spot of light rain or drizzle.

Eastern Scotland good cloud breaks here, temperatures in the high teens

and the further south you are, dry with sunny spells, the best of which

will be on the south coast. On Wednesday we will bring air are up

from the south. Most will have a dry day and with southerly winds

temperatures will be the highest for the week, maybe reaching 26 or 27

Celsius across the south-east corner.