:00:00. > :00:00.Nigel Farage is standing aside as the Ukip leader -
:00:07. > :00:12.He told supporters he'd achieved his goal when Britain voted
:00:13. > :00:20.During the referendum campaign I said "I want my country back."
:00:21. > :00:24.What I'm saying today is I want my life back.
:00:25. > :00:32.The man with a pint - he reached parts of Britain
:00:33. > :00:35.other politicians didn't, inspiring some, angering others.
:00:36. > :00:38.Also tonight - the race to lead the Conservatives,
:00:39. > :00:43.and the job of negotiating Britain's exit from the EU.
:00:44. > :00:46.The Energy Minister, Andrea Leadsom, launches her bid and says EU
:00:47. > :00:51.citizens living here should be allowed to stay.
:00:52. > :00:56.Chris Evans pulls out of the new Top Gear show -
:00:57. > :01:01.he says his best was not good enough.
:01:02. > :01:04.They're team mates in Spain, but now Ronaldo and Bale prepare
:01:05. > :01:11.to go head-to-head as Wales take on Portugal.
:01:12. > :01:14.Coming up in the sport on BBC News: Britain's Andy Murray aims for a
:01:15. > :01:16.straight ninth quarterfinal here at Wimbledon, but standing
:01:17. > :01:42.in his way is Australian Nick Kyrgios.
:01:43. > :01:45.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:46. > :01:47.Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, has announced that he is stepping
:01:48. > :01:50.aside as leader of the party he founded to campaign for Britain's
:01:51. > :01:56.He said that task had now been achieved, though he'd be watching
:01:57. > :01:58.to make sure there was no backsliding in
:01:59. > :02:04.Well, those negotiations will be headed by whoever becomes
:02:05. > :02:09.Today the Leave campaigner Andrea Leadsom launched her bid.
:02:10. > :02:20.Here's our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:21. > :02:31.Nervous? Nigel Farage? It looked that way. Moments before he was to
:02:32. > :02:40.reveal that his time was up. The leader of Ukip, Nigel Farage... His
:02:41. > :02:43.main work is done. I now feel I have done my bit, that I couldn't
:02:44. > :02:48.possibly achieve more than we managed to get in that referendum so
:02:49. > :02:53.I feel it is right that I should now stand aside as leader of Ukip.
:02:54. > :02:58.During the referendum campaign, I said, I want my country back. What
:02:59. > :03:04.I'm saying today is I want my life back and it begins right now, thank
:03:05. > :03:09.you. But his parting shot? Ironically for the man who has
:03:10. > :03:13.pushed to reduce immigration, a call for all five contenders to be the
:03:14. > :03:18.next Prime Minister to promised EU nationals already here can stay for
:03:19. > :03:24.good. Everybody who has come to this country legally has fully protected
:03:25. > :03:28.rights. The fact that hereafter we will have a different immigration
:03:29. > :03:34.system and not an open door is a separate issue. What happens to him
:03:35. > :03:38.or her or them, the 3 million EU migrants who have made their lives
:03:39. > :03:42.here is becoming one of the big first tests of the contest to be the
:03:43. > :03:46.next Prime Minister. EU countries have consistently said we cannot
:03:47. > :03:53.trade freely with them if their people cannot move freely here.
:03:54. > :03:57.Andrea Leadsom, Tory minister and want to be Prime Minister, says
:03:58. > :04:01.whether from Portugal or Poland, they should be able to stay. I
:04:02. > :04:06.commit today to guaranteeing the right of our EU friends who have
:04:07. > :04:14.already come here to live and work. We must give them certainty. There
:04:15. > :04:19.is no way they will be bargaining chips in our negotiations. One of
:04:20. > :04:23.her Eurosceptic rivals who also wants Number Ten, Liam Fox, said he
:04:24. > :04:32.would like EU nationals to be able to stay but stop short of a
:04:33. > :04:36.guarantee. I would like us to come to a mutual decision that those who
:04:37. > :04:41.are already here have full rights to remain, and I would want to see
:04:42. > :04:46.mutuality in that particular arrangement. The Foreign Secretary,
:04:47. > :04:51.who is backing Theresa May, told me that firm promises cannot yet be
:04:52. > :04:56.made. Those who are saying today, no, we will make a unilateral
:04:57. > :05:01.commitment that EU nationals can stay in the UK without extracting a
:05:02. > :05:06.matching promise that Brits in Spain are able to stay there, I think are
:05:07. > :05:11.selling our people out to cheat. We have to make sure this is a
:05:12. > :05:14.reciprocal arrangement. The Foreign Secretary has been talking to his
:05:15. > :05:19.counterparts around the continent and says we cannot expect to control
:05:20. > :05:23.immigration and not lose out on trade. There will be a trade-off
:05:24. > :05:28.because the new political reality in Britain is that we cannot carry on
:05:29. > :05:32.with full freedom of movement as a right as we have seen it in the
:05:33. > :05:38.past, and that will mean that we are not able to get full and unfettered
:05:39. > :05:41.access to the market. What all the contenders for Number Ten are
:05:42. > :05:45.grappling with is not just the question of why they believe they
:05:46. > :05:50.are the right person for the job, but how will they unpick and reshape
:05:51. > :05:54.our relationship with the rest of the world? What happens to people
:05:55. > :06:00.from Spain, Poland or Portugal who are already here is the first big
:06:01. > :06:04.question, but there is no way with complex negotiations ahead that it
:06:05. > :06:08.will be the last. It is not likely that people from other EU countries
:06:09. > :06:12.will have to leave, but working out what happens to those who have made
:06:13. > :06:17.their way to the UK will help decide who gets to move in here.
:06:18. > :06:20.Whether it was a photo opportunity in a pub or a verbal assault
:06:21. > :06:22.in the European parliament, there was no mistaking
:06:23. > :06:24.Nigel Farage's single-minded determination to pull Britain out
:06:25. > :06:29.Arguably, he reshaped British politics over the last two decades.
:06:30. > :06:31.Our political correspondent Ben Wright looks at his
:06:32. > :06:42.career and what might happen to his party next.
:06:43. > :06:56.The moment of victory. And time to bow out. For two decades, Nigel
:06:57. > :07:02.Farage had a mission, to lead Britain out of the EU. While Ukip
:07:03. > :07:07.has just one MP at Westminster, the party's impact on politics has been
:07:08. > :07:10.huge. Probably one of the most influential politicians in the
:07:11. > :07:17.post-war era, not just of this century, because if it wasn't for
:07:18. > :07:20.Nigel Farage and his hard work and the Ukip activists, we wouldn't have
:07:21. > :07:25.had a referendum on our membership of the EU. The former city trader
:07:26. > :07:30.was a founder of Ukip and soon distilled its pitch to a simple
:07:31. > :07:35.phrase. What people are saying is get Britain out. In 1999, Farage was
:07:36. > :07:40.elected to the European Parliament, a place he mocked from the start.
:07:41. > :07:45.You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade
:07:46. > :07:50.bank clerk. He wanted Britain to leave, but the years Ukip could not
:07:51. > :07:55.break through with voters and in 2006 David Cameron memorably mocked
:07:56. > :08:01.them. I mean Ukip, it is just a bunch of fruit cakes and closet
:08:02. > :08:06.racists. A decade later, Nigel Farage would have the last laugh.
:08:07. > :08:11.With his love of the drink, Farage is not like most politicians but the
:08:12. > :08:14.jovial demeanour disguised serious intent. The seriousness that
:08:15. > :08:20.hardened after he was injured in a plane crash in 2010, an experience
:08:21. > :08:25.that spurred him on. Over the next five years Ukip made huge strides,
:08:26. > :08:33.coming first in the European elections in 2014. He celebrated in
:08:34. > :08:36.a Westminster pub of course. Ukip's campaign was cutting through, not
:08:37. > :08:41.only winning over disillusioned Tories, but many working-class
:08:42. > :08:47.Labour voters as well. David Cameron promised an EU referendum, in part
:08:48. > :08:52.to head off the Ukip advance. Today in Essex, where Ukip came second in
:08:53. > :08:57.the general election, some disappointment at Nigel Farage's
:08:58. > :09:02.decision. Shocked when you told me, he seems a nice guy, not scared to
:09:03. > :09:07.say what he wants. It up the party from being a fringe organisation to
:09:08. > :09:11.a mainstream political force is so very impressive figure. I am glad he
:09:12. > :09:18.is going, especially the way he treated people in the EU, the way he
:09:19. > :09:21.spoke to people is disgusting. A divisive rabble-rouser to some,
:09:22. > :09:27.their hero to others, Ukip without Nigel Farage will lose some of its
:09:28. > :09:33.colour. Where the party heads next is a question for his successor.
:09:34. > :09:35.The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has made a direct appeal
:09:36. > :09:40.After a week in which he's lost the support of most of his MPs,
:09:41. > :09:42.he posted a video on social media today defending his
:09:43. > :09:46.Earlier, Angela Eagle - who resigned from the Shadow Cabinet last week -
:09:47. > :09:49.warned that she will mount a challenge if Mr Corbyn
:09:50. > :09:58.Our Political Correspondent Vicki Young has the details.
:09:59. > :10:02.Nice to see you all thanks so much for coming.
:10:03. > :10:04.Resignations are popular at Westminster right now, but the
:10:05. > :10:06.Labour leader has never been a follower of fashion.
:10:07. > :10:10.Jeremy Corbyn's under enormous pressure to go, but
:10:11. > :10:15.today he couldn't have been clearer...
:10:16. > :10:19.Only nine months ago I was very honoured to be elected leader of our
:10:20. > :10:20.party. Using social media to speak
:10:21. > :10:23.directly to his party, But many of his MPs are in no mood
:10:24. > :10:34.for compromise and Angela Eagle says she's to launch
:10:35. > :10:38.a leadership challenge. I have the support to run
:10:39. > :10:41.and I will do so if Jeremy doesn't Last week, more than 60
:10:42. > :10:50.of Mr Corbyn's front bench team Then in a vote of no-confidence,
:10:51. > :11:00.more than 170 Labour their leader, but his team say
:11:01. > :11:04.he was elected by a quarter of a million party members and thousands
:11:05. > :11:12.more are signing up to support him. There's been some talk of a brokered
:11:13. > :11:15.deal between the Labour leader and his MPs, but it's hard to see
:11:16. > :11:18.how that would work. Many now expect
:11:19. > :11:19.a leadership contest. One MP told me they'd have the fight
:11:20. > :11:23.of their lives and if Mr Corbyn was
:11:24. > :11:25.re-elected they are openly talking about a split
:11:26. > :11:26.in Mr Corbyn's team said
:11:27. > :11:33.that he is simply getting on And this afternoon, that meant
:11:34. > :11:37.a grilling from MPs about allegations of anti-Semitism
:11:38. > :11:45.in the Labour Party. organisations are fearful
:11:46. > :11:49.with you as leader of the Labour Party,
:11:50. > :11:56.that you are fostering a period in
:11:57. > :11:59.the party were anti-Semitism exists? I think it's deeply unfair
:12:00. > :12:17.and deeply So you regret using those words? Of
:12:18. > :12:20.course. Labour MPs hoped Mr Corbyn will resign but he is drawing
:12:21. > :12:24.strength from the tens of thousands of party members who propelled him
:12:25. > :12:26.to victory last year. For now, there is no sign of this stand-off coming
:12:27. > :12:28.to an end. Chris Evans has stepped down
:12:29. > :12:30.as presenter of Top Gear, saying his best shot
:12:31. > :12:34.at the programme wasn't good enough. Ratings for the BBC show,
:12:35. > :12:37.which was relaunched in May after Jeremy Clarkson
:12:38. > :12:39.was sacked, have been falling. Here's our Media Correspondent,
:12:40. > :12:46.David Sillito. Welcome to Top Gear with our
:12:47. > :12:49.all-new improved audience. When Chris Evans replaced
:12:50. > :12:52.Jeremy Clarkson as the face of Top Jeremy Clarkson had turned the show
:12:53. > :12:58.into a global success story and then Chris Evans stepped in alongside
:12:59. > :13:05.former Friends star, Matt Le Blanc. But Chris Evans has
:13:06. > :13:10.lasted just one series. He's faced a stream of negative
:13:11. > :13:12.stories in the press and also allegations about his behaviour
:13:13. > :13:16.going back to the 90s. This morning, he said
:13:17. > :13:21.nothing as he left Radio 2. A few hours later, he sent
:13:22. > :13:24.this tweet. One Top Gear fan who is also
:13:25. > :13:33.a former Stig agrees. I think it was an obvious
:13:34. > :13:36.consequence of the first show, Now, the shows have got
:13:37. > :13:43.an awful lot better, but that was the key moment
:13:44. > :13:46.the new show and Chris had And they just didn't get
:13:47. > :13:52.the first one right. When you add in catch-up and
:13:53. > :13:59.repeats, around 9 million did watch the first programme,
:14:00. > :14:01.but since then figures have dipped. Last night's ratings
:14:02. > :14:08.were below 2 million. The BBC says the show will continue,
:14:09. > :14:10.filming for the new series But while Chris Evans will be back
:14:11. > :14:14.on air on Radio 2 tomorrow, the world's biggest factual
:14:15. > :14:16.programme has once again Six men have been jailed
:14:17. > :14:20.for distributing drugs The judge at Birmingham Crown Court
:14:21. > :14:25.said the quantities of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy involved
:14:26. > :14:29.were truly colossal. The drugs, valued at more
:14:30. > :14:31.than a billion pounds, were hidden inside Dutch ambulances
:14:32. > :14:34.which entered the UK The investment company Standard Life
:14:35. > :14:41.has suspended dealing The company said it took
:14:42. > :14:46.the decision following an increase in requests from investors
:14:47. > :14:48.about withdrawing their funds as a result of uncertainty
:14:49. > :14:51.for the UK commercial real estate market following the EU
:14:52. > :15:02.referendum result. The Chair of a major child abuse
:15:03. > :15:05.inquiry in Scotland has resigned following claims she made comments
:15:06. > :15:09.which were "offensive" to survivors. Our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith
:15:10. > :15:19.is in Glasgow with more details. You had better give us the
:15:20. > :15:25.background to this? Even before Susan O'Brien QC resigned today, the
:15:26. > :15:32.Education Secretary had already begun proceedings to try to have her
:15:33. > :15:35.sacked. The comments she said were unacceptable, made during a training
:15:36. > :15:40.session during a specialist psychologist. Concerns were raised
:15:41. > :15:46.when she appeared to make light of abuse suffered by an individual at a
:15:47. > :15:49.boarding school and about a joke she made about the teacher facing child
:15:50. > :15:52.sex allegations. The Education Secretary said she has shown a
:15:53. > :15:59.shocking level of misjudgement over this affair and he was worried that
:16:00. > :16:04.if she stayed in post, and these comments were made public, it could
:16:05. > :16:07.undermine comments in the whole enquiry. Susan O'Brien has fired
:16:08. > :16:12.back at dramatic resignation letter, in which he accuses the Scottish
:16:13. > :16:17.Government of trying to control and micromanage her enquiry and attempt
:16:18. > :16:21.to undermine her. Another member of the panel resigned last week in
:16:22. > :16:24.support of Susan O'Brien. While survivors of child sex abuse in
:16:25. > :16:28.Scotland are left calling for a judge led enquiry into historical
:16:29. > :16:30.allegations, like the one currently being held in England and Wales.
:16:31. > :16:33.Thank you. Wales are preparing to take
:16:34. > :16:35.on Portugal in the country's biggest fixture ever,
:16:36. > :16:38.the semi-finals of Euro 2016! It's a meeting which will see two
:16:39. > :16:41.giants of international football, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo,
:16:42. > :16:43.who both play for Real Madrid, But Wales's Gareth Bale insists
:16:44. > :16:49.the match is about much more Our Wales Correspondent Hywel
:16:50. > :16:54.Griffith is at the Wales training base
:16:55. > :16:58.on the French coast. Together on a journey
:16:59. > :17:01.that is breaking new ground. Wales are the first team
:17:02. > :17:04.from Britain to make it to They've shown they've got the guts
:17:05. > :17:13.and the heart to perform Some, of course, are used
:17:14. > :17:17.to the limelight. At Real Madrid, Gareth Bale's every
:17:18. > :17:18.move is under scrutiny. In this semifinal he'll
:17:19. > :17:20.face his Portuguese team-mate, We know that everybody knows that
:17:21. > :17:28.really it's about two Although you are the star,
:17:29. > :17:36.do you feel that really it's more that some of the other players have
:17:37. > :17:40.come onto a different level? There's no stars in our team,
:17:41. > :17:43.we are all together, We all run for each other,
:17:44. > :17:47.we all tackle for each other Wales' low-key approach has meant
:17:48. > :17:54.enjoying Brittany's beaches with ice creams and kickabouts,
:17:55. > :18:01.keeping things relaxed. But Gareth Bale's meeting
:18:02. > :18:03.with Cristiano Ronaldo As the younger of the two,
:18:04. > :18:08.Gareth Bale has 60 caps, While this is Bale's
:18:09. > :18:12.first major tournament, But so far, Bale is having a better
:18:13. > :18:17.Euro 2016 with three goals Portugal's path to this semifinal
:18:18. > :18:24.depended on penalties. They've not won a game
:18:25. > :18:38.within 90 minutes. That has some Welsh fans and former
:18:39. > :18:45.players daring to dream. They are going up
:18:46. > :18:46.a level, every game. He didn't cuddle me when we played
:18:47. > :18:49.together, he's given me six cuddles already in the last three weeks
:18:50. > :18:51.when we were over there. We're all proud of them,
:18:52. > :18:55.all of the nation are proud. With the attention trained
:18:56. > :18:57.on Gareth Bale, Wales have found a way of making
:18:58. > :19:00.the whole team thrive. Having come this far,
:19:01. > :19:01.they're in no mood Tennis now and both Roger Federer
:19:02. > :19:08.and Serena Williams sailed through their fourth
:19:09. > :19:12.round matches today. Britain's number 1 Andy Murray is
:19:13. > :19:24.on court now as Joe Wilson reports. Well out by week two. It is fine if
:19:25. > :19:28.you are turf behind the baseline, but the soloist must be stronger.
:19:29. > :19:38.Andy Murray prepared. He wasn't playing Roger Federer got past Steve
:19:39. > :19:44.Johnson. The American was the fly chasing uncharted territory. Roger
:19:45. > :19:49.Federer stood and watched, waiting to swat. Straight sets win, Roger
:19:50. > :19:53.Federer in his 14th Wimbledon quarterfinal, equalling the record
:19:54. > :20:00.with the spirit of a teenager. 149 days after federal, Serena Williams.
:20:01. > :20:05.But 34 she still has great power. But progress isn't always easy,
:20:06. > :20:13.especially when the court is a bit slippy. Drizzle closed the roof and
:20:14. > :20:18.suddenly Serena Williams was liberated against Svetlana
:20:19. > :20:24.Kuznetsova. 6-0 in the second set. Through. In waiting for someone?
:20:25. > :20:30.Andy Murray's match B game just after five o'clock. This time he was
:20:31. > :20:39.playing an opponent talented enough to beat him. Early signs, this is a
:20:40. > :20:45.match which could have everything. Andy Murray one very tight first set
:20:46. > :20:49.and has just broken the serve in the second set. Both players have a
:20:50. > :20:55.certain reputation for their temper, but they are friends, and so far it
:20:56. > :20:55.has been a great watch and very good-natured.
:20:56. > :21:05.Time for the weather. 12 showers, but much of eastern England is dry
:21:06. > :21:12.today, unlike what we have seen further north. This evening we have
:21:13. > :21:20.some heavy bursts of rain working from west to east. If you are on the
:21:21. > :21:23.roads, a lot of surface water, a brief spell of intense rain in
:21:24. > :21:29.northern England especially. Heavy rain eases in the night, just cloud
:21:30. > :21:34.and patchy rain and drizzle heading south east across England and Wales.
:21:35. > :21:38.Introducing fresh weather to the north and but drier conditions into
:21:39. > :21:44.the morning and humid across East Anglia and the south east. The cloud
:21:45. > :21:48.and patchy rain or drizzle here. A strengthening wind pushing away the
:21:49. > :21:55.humid air. Much of England and Wales and Northern Ireland, dry and fine
:21:56. > :21:59.Tuesday. Plenty of showers across Scotland, which could be into the
:22:00. > :22:04.north-east of England. Generally a fresher day, nice notably across the
:22:05. > :22:09.South but more sunshine in the north-west are not too bad. Cool
:22:10. > :22:13.start to Wednesday, Sony stop the many, but the cloud will increase
:22:14. > :22:19.from the West and it is the north-west of the UK which will see
:22:20. > :22:24.the rain developed. Northern Ireland and western Scotland and a few spots
:22:25. > :22:29.to western part of England and Scotland. Temperatures will rise,
:22:30. > :22:33.but a wet night for part of Scotland and Northern Ireland. That links
:22:34. > :22:36.into another area of low pressure but Thursday which will introduce
:22:37. > :22:39.cloud and outbreaks of rain from the south-west and the north-east of the
:22:40. > :22:44.country. Rainfall amounts will bury. But to the far north we will see
:22:45. > :22:48.something brighter. The south east staying brighter again.