:00:00. > :00:08.From front runner to no show - Boris Johnson pulls out of the race
:00:09. > :00:18.What is your message to Michael Gove?
:00:19. > :00:20.He led the charge for the Leave campaign in the referendum but
:00:21. > :00:27.Having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in
:00:28. > :00:36.Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me.
:00:37. > :00:39.They were the dream team on the road but at the last minute Michael Gove
:00:40. > :00:48.While Boris has great attributes, he was not capable of uniting that
:00:49. > :00:50.team and leading the party and the country in the way
:00:51. > :00:59.Also standing is Theresa May who says she is offering strong
:01:00. > :01:01.leadership and warns that politics is not a game.
:01:02. > :01:05.I don't often wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job
:01:06. > :01:10.Also tonight, a new warning on the economy from the governor
:01:11. > :01:15.Mark Carney says growth is likely to slow down and points
:01:16. > :01:18.I don't often wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job
:01:19. > :01:22.REPORTER: Are you going to stand for the leadership?
:01:23. > :01:23.I'll be saying something later today.
:01:24. > :01:28.Angela Eagle decides today is not the day to take on Jeremy Corbyn
:01:29. > :01:35.100 years on from the Somme - the battle that changed wartime injuries
:01:36. > :01:44.it's a bumper day for the British fans.
:01:45. > :02:09.Both of our number ones are in action on Centre Court.
:02:10. > :02:13.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:02:14. > :02:16.In the most astonishing turn of events - in a week that's already
:02:17. > :02:20.thrown up a few shocks - Boris Johnson has announced that
:02:21. > :02:23.he's not a candidate to become the next Conservative leader.
:02:24. > :02:25.His decision came just hours after Justice Secretary Michael
:02:26. > :02:27.Gove - his colleague in the Leave campaign -
:02:28. > :02:33.Earlier, the Home Secretary, Theresa May,
:02:34. > :02:36.who campaigned to stay in the EU, announced she would be standing.
:02:37. > :02:38.Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports on the start
:02:39. > :02:48.of a contest that will lead to a new Prime Minister for Britain.
:02:49. > :02:56.Waiting, waiting and waiting. Even some of Boris Johnson's closest
:02:57. > :03:04.friends and supporters did not know what they were waiting for. Only his
:03:05. > :03:09.wife and a couple of confidence knew what was coming next. I must tell
:03:10. > :03:18.you, my friends, you who have waited faithfully for the punch line of
:03:19. > :03:21.this speech that, having consulted colleagues and in view of the
:03:22. > :03:28.circumstances in Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me.
:03:29. > :03:36.The blonde dropped a bombshell, leaving the race. Because his
:03:37. > :03:41.campaign chief, Michael Gove, had phoned the strategist Lynton Crosby
:03:42. > :03:45.this morning, quitting and saying he would run instead. Thought Mr
:03:46. > :03:53.Johnson's supporters, tears and disbelief. You look absolutely
:03:54. > :03:57.devastated. Yeah, well... I worked with him for ten years in London, I
:03:58. > :04:00.know his quality and I stand by everything I said about him.
:04:01. > :04:05.Obviously the circumstances of the last couple of days have been very
:04:06. > :04:10.turbulent and caught a lot of us by surprise. I didn't know, I'm very
:04:11. > :04:16.disappointed. I had no idea, a total surprise to me. In 24-hour is,
:04:17. > :04:21.friends have turned bitter foes come they fought and won the referendum
:04:22. > :04:24.together but now Michael Gove is not just withdrawing his support but
:04:25. > :04:29.saying he wants to be Prime Minister in stead. Although he has always
:04:30. > :04:33.denied having that ambition. The one thing I do know is that having seen
:04:34. > :04:39.David Cameron up close, I know that it takes extraordinary reserves of
:04:40. > :04:43.patients of judgment, of character to lead this country and he has it
:04:44. > :04:49.and I don't. So what on earth has made Michael Gove completely changed
:04:50. > :04:53.his view? During the course of the last few days I have realised that
:04:54. > :04:59.while Boris does have those very special abilities to communicate and
:05:00. > :05:02.to reach out, what he did not have was the capacity to build and the
:05:03. > :05:06.league that team and to provide the leadership of the country need at
:05:07. > :05:10.this critical moment. You have worked closely with Boris Johnson
:05:11. > :05:14.for the last few months during the referendum campaign and you have
:05:15. > :05:17.known the man for decades. People will think it is rather surprising
:05:18. > :05:21.that suddenly you are saying that in the last couple of days it has
:05:22. > :05:25.occurred to me that he is not up to it? In the last four days I had a
:05:26. > :05:28.chance to see up close and personal how Boris dealt with some of the
:05:29. > :05:33.decisions we needed to make to take this country forward. During that
:05:34. > :05:39.period I had hoped that Boris would rise to the occasion because
:05:40. > :05:43.inevitably, when you have a leadership election, people are
:05:44. > :05:50.tested, questions are asked of them tests are set. As I say, Boris has a
:05:51. > :05:58.formidable qualities but I saw him not to pass those tests. Whether it
:05:59. > :06:02.is treachery or tragedy, the Home Secretary's smooth calm puts her as
:06:03. > :06:06.front runner. The Lord was packed with MPs and ministers ready to
:06:07. > :06:10.support her promises to cut immigration and provide stability at
:06:11. > :06:14.a time of crisis. Mike Pitt is very simple, I'm Theresa May and I think
:06:15. > :06:20.the best person to be Prime Minister of this country -- my pitch. If ever
:06:21. > :06:24.there was a time for a Prime Minister who is ready and able to do
:06:25. > :06:30.the job from day one, this is it. We have immediate work to do to restore
:06:31. > :06:35.political stability and economic certainty, to bring together the
:06:36. > :06:38.party and the country and to negotiate a sensible and orderly
:06:39. > :06:44.departure from the European Union. And I know I'm not a showy
:06:45. > :06:48.politician, I don't tour the television studios, I don't gossip
:06:49. > :06:52.about people over lunch, go drinking in Parliament's bars, I don't often
:06:53. > :06:57.wet my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me
:06:58. > :07:01.-- where my heart. You were on the losing side of the European
:07:02. > :07:07.argument. What is it now that makes you think you are a winner? I think
:07:08. > :07:09.what the public want is strong, resilient leadership and I think
:07:10. > :07:14.they want honesty from their politicians. And I have always tried
:07:15. > :07:17.to be as clear with people as possible about what the challenges
:07:18. > :07:21.are and the difficulties in facing them and how we can do that together
:07:22. > :07:26.and I think that is what people are looking for. But this race for
:07:27. > :07:31.number ten may yet find surprising stars. The referendum gave a big
:07:32. > :07:36.platform to Andrea Leadsom who has now said she will run. I have a real
:07:37. > :07:40.hard for this, it is something I long to do so I am hoping but at the
:07:41. > :07:45.end of the day it is after the party and then the country. The former
:07:46. > :07:50.Defence Secretary Liam Fox, on the right of the Tory party, is taking
:07:51. > :07:53.another shot. This is about the government of our country, the
:07:54. > :07:59.future of our relationships with Europe and the beyond. What do you
:08:00. > :08:02.want to say to Michael Gove? It is an undignified departure from the
:08:03. > :08:07.race from a politician who pleases crowd but alarms some others. Not
:08:08. > :08:12.even a week since his biggest victory, Boris Johnson's battle to
:08:13. > :08:15.become Prime Minister is lost before it officially began. Laura Coombs
:08:16. > :08:20.Bert van Marwijk, BBC News, Westminster. -- Laura Kuenssberg.
:08:21. > :08:22.Michael Gove was by no means the only Conservative
:08:23. > :08:25.Lord Heseltine launched a scathing attack on him,
:08:26. > :08:27.saying he'd created the greatest constitutional crisis
:08:28. > :08:31.In just one week Mr Johnson has gone from victory to defeat.
:08:32. > :08:34.James Landale looks at what went wrong for him and what it means
:08:35. > :08:49.His report contains some flash photography. Boris Johnson was the
:08:50. > :08:53.charismatic face of Leave, campaigning for a cause as the
:08:54. > :08:58.Castle as he once campaigned for himself, a man who appealed beyond
:08:59. > :09:04.party bounds and, yes, who won. I believe that this that they can be
:09:05. > :09:07.our country's Independence Day. And if Britain chose to get out of the
:09:08. > :09:14.EU, many thought he could get into Downing Street. And after Leave won,
:09:15. > :09:18.the assumption was that he and Michael Gove would form a dream
:09:19. > :09:22.ticket, uniting popular support with intellectual rigour. But it was not
:09:23. > :09:32.to be. In a statement released this morning, Michael Gove said...
:09:33. > :09:39.MPs backing Mr Johnson were furious. You are quite shocked? I am, it
:09:40. > :09:44.looks like a student political game when the country needs direction and
:09:45. > :09:49.clarity and of maturity. I am shocked and surprised that people
:09:50. > :09:53.should behave in this way. So why did Mr Gove changes mind? In any
:09:54. > :09:57.mail this week and his wife claimed that Tory members and media moguls
:09:58. > :10:02.like Rupert Murdoch needed reassurance about Mr Johnson. Some
:10:03. > :10:05.MPs claimed that an article in the Daily Telegraph on Monday showed Mr
:10:06. > :10:09.Johnson did not have the determination to deliver on Brexit
:10:10. > :10:12.and one MPs who backed Mr Johnson in the papers today suggested there had
:10:13. > :10:18.been a row about campaign staff and cabinet jobs. We wanted a broad
:10:19. > :10:21.range and when you look at the list of candidates, some unexpected,
:10:22. > :10:25.people that we wanted to have on site that are now running in their
:10:26. > :10:29.own right, and we thought that we would have avoided that. We have a
:10:30. > :10:33.strong, unified team. It did not happen because Boris was cavalier
:10:34. > :10:37.with the assurances he made. Many MPs believe that Mr Gopal out
:10:38. > :10:38.primarily because he did not believe Mr Johnson could win and that his
:10:39. > :10:42.heart was not in this race. Mr Johnson's supporters claim
:10:43. > :10:44.that this wasn't some last-minute change of mind but a deliberate,
:10:45. > :10:54.planned political assassination. Either way, not everyone has
:10:55. > :11:00.sympathy for Mr Johnson. For where he has left the Tory party and the
:11:01. > :11:04.country. This guy has created the biggest hunted usual crisis in peace
:11:05. > :11:08.time in my lifetime. He has seen eight serious depletion in the
:11:09. > :11:13.nation's savings, he has torn the Tory party apart. And the man who
:11:14. > :11:18.sought the leadership for years has seen it plucked from his grasp. The
:11:19. > :11:20.bitterness of today will linger long. James Farndale, BBC News,
:11:21. > :11:22.Westminster. So how will the Conservative
:11:23. > :11:24.leadership contest work? Michael Gove and Theresa May are
:11:25. > :11:27.the best known of the candidates. They, and Stephen Crabb,
:11:28. > :11:30.Andrea Leadsom and Liam Fox MPs will whittle the list
:11:31. > :11:35.down to two candidates. Party members will choose one
:11:36. > :11:48.of them - our next Prime Minister. Lets talk to our political editor,
:11:49. > :11:51.Laura Kuenssberg. The party was meant to reunite after the
:11:52. > :11:55.referendum but it does not look like that. Absolutely not. There are all
:11:56. > :12:00.sorts of different accounts of what went on but one thing is clear,
:12:01. > :12:05.suspicion and mistrust are all around this in Westminster tonight.
:12:06. > :12:09.Boris Johnson, whether it was his own fault because of how he has
:12:10. > :12:14.behaved or whether this was an act of political treachery by Michael
:12:15. > :12:17.Gove, is one of our best-known politicians, known so much for his
:12:18. > :12:22.ambition to one they moved into number ten. His decision to abandon
:12:23. > :12:28.that goal that he has held for years is a huge shock here in Westminster.
:12:29. > :12:31.Certainly tonight there is a senior group of conservatives who for a
:12:32. > :12:36.long time have seen the party's destiny as being up to them, who are
:12:37. > :12:40.completely at odds with each other and you cannot emphasise enough how
:12:41. > :12:44.personal this all is. They have put together and know each other for
:12:45. > :12:48.decades and what has happened today is a real shock and a real
:12:49. > :12:53.bitterness is being felt all around. The other thing that is clear
:12:54. > :12:57.tonight is that the Home Secretary, Theresa May, now moves elegantly and
:12:58. > :13:02.smoothly to become the front runner not just to become the next Tory
:13:03. > :13:06.leader but to become our next Prime Minister. Her campaign launched
:13:07. > :13:14.today was a complete contrast to what happened with Mr Johnson and Mr
:13:15. > :13:16.Gove. But leadership races, as we have been absolutely reminded of
:13:17. > :13:20.today, Camberley completely and totally unpredictable. Given that
:13:21. > :13:25.the referendum result had not even been decided this time last week, we
:13:26. > :13:29.were going to be ballot is to decide our future, it is astonishing how
:13:30. > :13:30.much things have changed in the last seven days and they could change
:13:31. > :13:36.again long before this is settled. The Governor of the Bank of England,
:13:37. > :13:39.Mark Carney, has signalled that interest rates could be cut
:13:40. > :13:41.over the summer. He warned that economic growth
:13:42. > :13:44.could be hit for some time The Governor of the Bank of England,
:13:45. > :13:47.Mark Carney, has signalled that Mr Carney said more cash might also
:13:48. > :13:52.need to be pumped into the economy. Here's our Business
:13:53. > :13:58.Editor Simon Jack. As the boat leaves campaign punched
:13:59. > :14:04.the air in victory last week, the market hit the floor. ?1.8 trillion
:14:05. > :14:08.was wiped off shares worldwide in a single day, the city and the country
:14:09. > :14:12.seemed rudderless. The Bank of England had described Brexit is the
:14:13. > :14:15.biggest risk to the economy and the governor had not changed his tune to
:14:16. > :14:19.the economy and the governor had not changed his tune today. In my view,
:14:20. > :14:25.and I'm not prejudging the views of other independent members of the
:14:26. > :14:28.MPC, the economic outlook has deteriorated and some monetary
:14:29. > :14:32.policy easing will likely be required over the summer. That could
:14:33. > :14:39.mean lower interest rates, more money printing or both, to deal with
:14:40. > :14:44.a new economic reality. The material slowing in growth that the MPC had
:14:45. > :14:48.identified as a risk associated with the referendum now looks likely to
:14:49. > :14:52.be our central forecast. Out in the real economy there is some early
:14:53. > :14:57.evidence of a slowdown. One thing we have noticed is 4-mac a potential
:14:58. > :15:00.contract in the pipeline have pulled back, international client is
:15:01. > :15:03.looking to invest in the UK and until we know if Britain is in the
:15:04. > :15:07.single market or not they will be a period of under the -- uncertainties
:15:08. > :15:13.and that is unsettling for people looking to invest here, for jobs and
:15:14. > :15:17.for new business. That the biggest losers this week have been banks.
:15:18. > :15:23.HSBC and JP Morgan have warned jobs in the UK could go to Europe but to
:15:24. > :15:27.date the Barclays chief told the BBC that UK jobs were not under threat.
:15:28. > :15:32.We want to be involved in the capital markets globally. Right now
:15:33. > :15:36.the best way to do that is to be anchored in London and New York as
:15:37. > :15:40.we are. We might have to increase your present in another location
:15:41. > :15:48.that does not necessarily mean you are decreasing your present here. Do
:15:49. > :15:51.you predict reception? It is too early to tell. This is not an
:15:52. > :15:57.economic crisis, this is very different to what happened in 2008.
:15:58. > :16:00.In some financial markets have roared back, helped in part by the
:16:01. > :16:04.Governor's hint of an imminent interest rate cut. It is still early
:16:05. > :16:08.days in the post Brexit journey but to date is the Bank of England made
:16:09. > :16:10.it clear it thinks the sky has darkened over the UK economy. Simon
:16:11. > :16:12.Jack, BBC News. The Government has decided
:16:13. > :16:14.to postpone a decision on airport expansion in the south-east
:16:15. > :16:16.of England until a new Prime An announcement on projects
:16:17. > :16:20.at Heathrow or Gatwick had been Business leaders have
:16:21. > :16:23.criticised the move, saying airport capacity is now
:16:24. > :16:27.an even greater priority following Now, the Conservatives aren't
:16:28. > :16:35.the only ones facing The former Shadow Business
:16:36. > :16:38.Secretary, Angela Eagle, was expected to say that she would
:16:39. > :16:41.be challenging Jeremy Corbyn But the BBC understands
:16:42. > :16:46.she is delaying her announcement. It follows an overwhelming vote
:16:47. > :16:48.of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn Our Deputy Political Editor
:16:49. > :16:54.John Pienaar reports. Jeremy Corbyn's home is normally
:16:55. > :16:57.mobbed by the media. Today, as rival Cabinet Ministers
:16:58. > :17:01.jostled and bumped each other off in the power struggle for Britain,
:17:02. > :17:04.he set off in peace. No-one's even asking
:17:05. > :17:07.what Labour thinks anymore. First launching a plan to stamp out
:17:08. > :17:13.racism in the party, he upset critics by mentioning
:17:14. > :17:16.Israel and the so-called Islamic Our Jewish friends are no more
:17:17. > :17:22.responsible for the actions actions of Israel or the Netanyahu
:17:23. > :17:30.Government than our Muslim friends A pro-Corbyn activist who'd handed
:17:31. > :17:33.out a statement saying rebel MPs should be sacked as candidates
:17:34. > :17:37.turned on a Jewish MP for what he So you can see who's
:17:38. > :17:43.working hand-in-hand. The MP, Ruth Smeeth
:17:44. > :17:53.walked out in disgust. And under enormous pressure to stand
:17:54. > :17:58.down, facing an imminent leadership I am the leader of the party
:17:59. > :18:03.and I'm doing that. What do you say to those many
:18:04. > :18:07.members and most of your MPs who will never follow your
:18:08. > :18:10.leadership no matter what you say And is the break-up of the Labour
:18:11. > :18:16.Party a price worth paying I'm sorry, John,
:18:17. > :18:21.I am going to cut in. There will be plenty of time
:18:22. > :18:24.in the months ahead Mr Corbyn made a message
:18:25. > :18:30.to the Labour Party. He headed back to Westminster
:18:31. > :18:35.where his MPs are competing to see Mr Corbyn, is the break-up
:18:36. > :18:40.of your party a price worth paying? And where once loyal MPs are telling
:18:41. > :18:43.me privately they think he should stand down too to prevent a
:18:44. > :18:46.right-wing takeover. Jeremy Corbyn's left-wing
:18:47. > :18:50.faith goes back decades. New members helped elect him
:18:51. > :18:55.with far-left backing all hostile to most Labour MPs
:18:56. > :18:59.and behind his loyal hard core support who are determined
:19:00. > :19:03.he cut and won't give in. He absolutely has my support
:19:04. > :19:06.and the support of the majority I think he's a man who's shown
:19:07. > :19:11.immense courage and leadership this week as MPs have tried to take a
:19:12. > :19:15.coup out against him. I believe he is the right man
:19:16. > :19:20.to lead the Labour Party. Angela Eagle, a former
:19:21. > :19:24.Shadow Cabinet Minister's ready But Owen Smith fancies
:19:25. > :19:34.a challenge too. They are both holding back to decide
:19:35. > :19:37.which one has the best chance And there's another reason
:19:38. > :19:42.a challenge has been put on hold. Many MPs are becoming convinced
:19:43. > :19:45.Jeremy Corbyn's determination to fight on may be
:19:46. > :19:48.weakening under pressure. This morning, more than 500 Labour
:19:49. > :19:51.councillors joined the chorus There's talk of his trade
:19:52. > :19:55.union support softening. They say his base of support is
:19:56. > :20:03.strong enough to see off all-comers. Boris Johnson came out on the
:20:04. > :20:19.winning side in the referendum - but, today, he says he will not
:20:20. > :20:22.be running for leader And still to come: Britain's top
:20:23. > :20:35.players in Wimbledon action today - We hear from Wales manager Chris
:20:36. > :20:40.Coleman as he builds to the their Euro 2016 quarter-final
:20:41. > :20:58.against Belgium tomorrow. Tomorrow marks the centenary
:20:59. > :21:01.of the Battle of the Somme - a day that became the bloodiest
:21:02. > :21:03.in British military history, killing Many more sustained injuries that
:21:04. > :21:10.had never been seen before on such a scale and returned home
:21:11. > :21:16.to a society that didn't Sophie Raworth has been talking
:21:17. > :21:19.to a former army captain who lost both legs in Afghanistan about how
:21:20. > :21:23.different life is for injured The 31-year-old, who stepped
:21:24. > :21:32.on an improvised explosive device in Helmand five years ago is hoping
:21:33. > :21:36.to go to the Paralympics and win His great grandfather served
:21:37. > :21:42.in World War I, rescuing injured I think I would find it incredibly
:21:43. > :21:49.difficult to even picture what it was that they went
:21:50. > :21:52.through back in 1916, 1917, sitting in a trench filled
:21:53. > :21:56.with mud and dead bodies, rats, It is very hard for me
:21:57. > :22:01.to imagine just how 100 years ago, the horror of war
:22:02. > :22:08.was compounded by the new weapons Tanks were deployed for the first
:22:09. > :22:13.time at the Somme, and machine guns The result was the largest number
:22:14. > :22:22.of casualties ever seen This was very high velocity
:22:23. > :22:27.weaponry, large blast injuries, So at the very heart of it,
:22:28. > :22:33.the wounds had changed. They were blowing great bits
:22:34. > :22:36.out of people. Around 40,000 soldiers returned
:22:37. > :22:40.home with missing limbs. For the first time, the medical
:22:41. > :22:44.world had to come up with ways of getting large numbers
:22:45. > :22:48.of amputees back into society. I can't imagine trying to go back
:22:49. > :22:52.and do the things I'm doing now And I look at this leg,
:22:53. > :22:57.and the only thing I could imagine The historical evidence
:22:58. > :23:01.is that people tried it for five or six years,
:23:02. > :23:03.and then really they went back home, or went into a Star and Garter home,
:23:04. > :23:07.and simply weren't able to function. And suddenly doctors had to deal
:23:08. > :23:10.with reconstructing the faces Many never overcame
:23:11. > :23:15.the psychological impact They are called hospital blues
:23:16. > :23:22.for the most obvious reasons. They are a suit that was issued
:23:23. > :23:26.to pretty much all the military It came to be something that
:23:27. > :23:32.but the public recognised, so that if out of the corner
:23:33. > :23:35.of your eye you caught blue, you knew immediately
:23:36. > :23:37.that there was somebody over there was a military casualties,
:23:38. > :23:41.and that really increases A century later, as Dave Henson
:23:42. > :23:45.prepares to compete on the world stage, that sense of isolation
:23:46. > :23:50.is far from his reality. This is something that
:23:51. > :23:55.has happened to me. I lost my legs, and there
:23:56. > :23:58.is an interesting story behind it. I am very proud of what I have done,
:23:59. > :24:02.and I'm so happy to share that with people and display that
:24:03. > :24:05.in the form of these war wounds I keep on show more
:24:06. > :24:10.less 99% of the time. That was former army captain,
:24:11. > :24:14.Dave Henson, finishing that report. Brief look at some of the day's
:24:15. > :24:17.other news stories. Britain is sending another 250
:24:18. > :24:20.military personnel to Iraq, almost doubling the number
:24:21. > :24:25.of UK forces there. The additional service personnel
:24:26. > :24:28.will be based in the west of the country and take part
:24:29. > :24:31.in a variety of training duties. The government says the deployment
:24:32. > :24:33.would help in the fight against A woman has won a Court
:24:34. > :24:38.of Appeal battle to be able to use her daughter's frozen eggs
:24:39. > :24:41.to give birth to her own grandchild. The woman's daughter had the eggs
:24:42. > :24:44.stored after she was diagnosed with cancer; she died
:24:45. > :24:47.five years later. The fertility regulator had refused
:24:48. > :24:54.to grant the mother permission The Former Sweden striker, Zlatan
:24:55. > :24:57.Ibrahimovic, has confirmed that he'll sign for Manchester United
:24:58. > :25:00.after leaving Paris St-Germain. after four years with the French
:25:01. > :25:08.champions. Andy Murray has been in action
:25:09. > :25:16.at Wimbledon this afternoon. Earlier fellow brit Dan Evans eased
:25:17. > :25:18.into the third round - Here's our sports
:25:19. > :25:22.correspondent Joe Wilson. It's easy to get fixated
:25:23. > :25:25.on the ivy-clad grandeur of Centre but don't forget
:25:26. > :25:29.there is Court 2, too. It was here that a British
:25:30. > :25:32.player excelled himself. Dan Evans overwhelming the number 13
:25:33. > :25:36.seed, Alexander Dolgopolov of Ukraine, completing
:25:37. > :25:40.a straight sets victory. Into the third round,
:25:41. > :25:44.he now has the traditional reward for a British outsider,
:25:45. > :25:48.a match against Roger Federer. I've got to prepare like I've got
:25:49. > :25:51.a chance to win the match and I can't wait to get out
:25:52. > :25:53.and play him. It will be an amazing experience
:25:54. > :25:56.and hopefully a good atmosphere. Plenty of empty seats
:25:57. > :26:03.at six minutes past four. Perhaps they all expected him
:26:04. > :26:08.to ease past Yen-Hsun Lu. Here is a way to crush complacency
:26:09. > :26:11.instantly. That is how you want
:26:12. > :26:14.to hit a drop shot. Murray's serve broken in the very
:26:15. > :26:18.first game of the match. In the furious back and forth, Lu
:26:19. > :26:21.was only slightly less relentless. A mistake, a break and the first set
:26:22. > :26:26.followed to Murray, 6-3. Murray had questioned his movement
:26:27. > :26:29.in his first-round match. Double fault, 6-1 in the third,
:26:30. > :26:58.it's not how you start, Offer will on Centre Court right
:26:59. > :27:00.now, Johanna Konta. Playing Buchard. It is going with serve so far. And
:27:01. > :27:02.it's still dry. Time for a look at the weather.
:27:03. > :27:12.Here's Alex Deakin. Dry today, largely at Wimbledon. Not
:27:13. > :27:16.a first week where they've been worried about the ice-creams
:27:17. > :27:23.melting. Throughout the month of the June, the statistics so far show
:27:24. > :27:27.it's been a dull and a damp month. It has actually been slightly warmer
:27:28. > :27:31.than average. Where has summer been? Hide in Shetland. Cracking weather
:27:32. > :27:35.here over the past couple of weeks. We change month overnight tonight
:27:36. > :27:40.but not really weather patterns. A soggy night for southern Scotland.
:27:41. > :27:44.Northern England. A band of rain sinking southwards. Pretty much out
:27:45. > :27:49.of the way by dawn. For many, a dry start to Friday. Potentially still
:27:50. > :27:54.grey and damp across the south-east for a time in the morning. Slowly
:27:55. > :27:57.brightening up. Sunny spells and showers get going. Heavy and
:27:58. > :28:02.widespread, particularly over the northern half of the UK in the
:28:03. > :28:06.afternoon. Not too many over south Wales, south-west England. Some
:28:07. > :28:12.decent dry spells here. Should dry up in the London area for Wimbledon.
:28:13. > :28:17.Sunny spells likely here. As we head north more and more showers. Heavy,
:28:18. > :28:22.thundery, hail thrown in for good measure. There will be some sunshine
:28:23. > :28:25.at times. But even when the sun's out temperatures struggling in the
:28:26. > :28:31.low to mid-teens. Into the weekend, more of the same on Saturday. Sunny
:28:32. > :28:35.spells. Largely dry start. Showers get going chiefly in northern
:28:36. > :28:40.Britain. Perhaps a touch warmer. We could squeak up to 20 or 21 sells
:28:41. > :28:44.crews. On Sunday, more cloud over the south. Maybe drizzly rain.
:28:45. > :28:48.Further north not as many showers around on Sunday. There will still
:28:49. > :28:53.be some fine weather around on Sunday. Never speck stack lateral
:28:54. > :28:59.warm. As we head into the first part of the July staying cool and breezy.
:29:00. > :29:01.Some summer sunshine but the weather never too far away.
:29:02. > :29:03.A reminder of our main story: Boris Johnson has pulled out
:29:04. > :29:08.of the contest to be the next Conservative Party leader,
:29:09. > :29:10.His counterpart in the Leave campain, Michael Gove,
:29:11. > :29:16.has himself decided to stand for the leadership.
:29:17. > :29:18.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.