:00:00. > :00:00.The snap general election is confirmed, after Parliament votes
:00:00. > :00:13.The Prime Minister's already on the campaign trail tonight
:00:14. > :00:16.after telling MPs victory would allow her to build
:00:17. > :00:21.Labour accuse her of broken promises.
:00:22. > :00:24.It is right now to ask the British people to put their trust in me
:00:25. > :00:27.and the Conservative Party, to deliver on their vote last year
:00:28. > :00:31.a Brexit plan that will make a success for this country.
:00:32. > :00:33.The Tories have broken every promise, on living
:00:34. > :00:35.standards, the deficit, debt, the National Health Service
:00:36. > :00:43.Why should anyone believe a word they say?
:00:44. > :00:45.We'll be looking at the issues that will dominate the next 50
:00:46. > :00:53.Prince Harry gets a little helping hand as he officially launches this
:00:54. > :01:03.year's London Marathon, with its focus on mental health.
:01:04. > :01:07.right to share my experiences and to hope to encourage others to come
:01:08. > :01:08.forward. Going nowhere - a trackside fire
:01:09. > :01:11.halts trains in and out of London on one of the UK's
:01:12. > :01:13.busiest rail routes, And King of the Lions -
:01:14. > :01:17.Sam Warburton is named as captain of the British and Irish
:01:18. > :01:19.squad for this summer's And coming up in the sport
:01:20. > :01:24.on BBC News: Andy Murray, back from a wrist
:01:25. > :01:26.injury and winning again. He's through to the third
:01:27. > :01:29.round of the Monte Carlo Masters Good evening and welcome
:01:30. > :01:53.to the BBC News at Six. A snap general election
:01:54. > :01:56.will definitely be held on June 8th after MPs voted overwhelmingly
:01:57. > :02:00.to approve it this afternoon. The Prime Minister says victory
:02:01. > :02:06.at the polls in 50 days' time would give her a stronger hand
:02:07. > :02:09.in her Brexit negotiations with EU leaders and stability
:02:10. > :02:12.after Britain leaves. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
:02:13. > :02:15.told MPs he welcomed the election, saying Britain was worse off under
:02:16. > :02:19.the Conservatives than it was seven years ago and the British people now
:02:20. > :02:23.have a chance to change direction. Here's our political
:02:24. > :02:35.editor, Laura Kuenssberg. Day one of the national argument
:02:36. > :02:47.that will decide who is in charge round here. The placards are ready,
:02:48. > :02:51.the cameras are poised. Cheering already ringing out. Technically,
:02:52. > :02:57.it's not underway, but this campaign is coming soon to a place near you.
:02:58. > :03:02.CHEERING But, while the Prime Minister had
:03:03. > :03:05.the power of surprise, questions about her motivation chased her
:03:06. > :03:11.through the day, having gone back on her promise not to call a vote.
:03:12. > :03:14.Can she be trusted? I trust the British public and I'm asking them
:03:15. > :03:18.to put their trust in me. If they give me a mandate for these
:03:19. > :03:22.negotiations, for the plan for Brexit the government has, the plan
:03:23. > :03:27.for a stronger Britain beyond Brexit, I think that will strengthen
:03:28. > :03:33.our hand. West Chester the Prime Minister... Labour says she simply
:03:34. > :03:35.can't believe it. On both sides, Prime Minister's Questions was a
:03:36. > :03:42.glimpse of the weeks to come. Over the next -- last seven years, the
:03:43. > :03:48.Tories have broken every promise, on living standards, the deficit, yet,
:03:49. > :03:53.the NHS and schools funding. Why should anyone believe a word they
:03:54. > :03:56.say over the next seven weeks? We will be out there, fighting for
:03:57. > :04:02.every vote. Whereas the right honourable gentleman opposite would
:04:03. > :04:09.bankrupt our economy am a would weaken our defences and is simply
:04:10. > :04:15.not fit to lead. None of the leaders have time to waste. With Brexit the
:04:16. > :04:18.backdrop for this election, the Lib Dems see their resistance to the
:04:19. > :04:26.Prime Minister's plans as their selling point. Thanks for coming. In
:04:27. > :04:33.leafy parts, they hope that sells, like enrichment outside London. It's
:04:34. > :04:38.an opportunity for British people to reject hard Brexit, devote to stay
:04:39. > :04:41.in the single market. -- enrichment outside London. Devoted to have a
:04:42. > :04:46.decent, strong opposition in this country, for the good of our
:04:47. > :04:50.democracy. Only just over a dozen MPs tried to stop it happening. The
:04:51. > :04:59.opposition could have blocked Theresa May's desire to hold a
:05:00. > :05:05.election three years early. The ayes to the right, 322... But not a
:05:06. > :05:13.chance. The noes to the left, 13. It is now officially on. The realities
:05:14. > :05:17.of Brexit and the timing of this election, but Theresa May was also
:05:18. > :05:21.tempted by the lure of the polls and the desire to get things done at
:05:22. > :05:27.home. The challenge for the opposition parties, to make the
:05:28. > :05:31.arguments on their terms. He is no stranger to this. Jeremy Corbyn had
:05:32. > :05:36.two successful rounds of campaigning to win his party's leadership, but
:05:37. > :05:40.he is already on the road in marginal Croydon facing a much
:05:41. > :05:44.bigger task this time around. Are we going to be a country that works
:05:45. > :05:47.only to make the richest even richer? I know which side I'm on,
:05:48. > :05:53.you know which side you are on. This election is going to be fought on
:05:54. > :06:00.the streets of this country, up and down, in town halls, in streets, on
:06:01. > :06:02.beaches, on the seafront... And look who dropped into Westminster. Is it
:06:03. > :06:09.realistic for the SNP defy gravity and keep their record-breaking
:06:10. > :06:17.number of MPs? The Tories already claim, with echoes of 2015, they'd
:06:18. > :06:21.be in cahoots with Labour. The SNP will in this election, as we always
:06:22. > :06:28.do, stand up for Scotland. A vote for the SNP is a vote to protect
:06:29. > :06:31.Scotland's. If the Parliamentary arithmetic lent itself to the SNP
:06:32. > :06:35.being part of a progressive alliance that would keep the Tories out of
:06:36. > :06:40.government, the SNP would seek to be part of that, as we said in 2015.
:06:41. > :06:46.You have just opened the door to a coalition. You suggested you might
:06:47. > :06:50.work with the other parties. I don't think that the territory we are
:06:51. > :06:54.going to be in in this election and I don't think you will find anybody
:06:55. > :06:58.in any part of the UK who thinks that it is what I was simply stating
:06:59. > :07:04.the fact that I don't want to see a Tory government. Feeling confident,
:07:05. > :07:06.Prime Minister? Can you unite the country western mark she may be
:07:07. > :07:15.feeling the first, but achieving the second will be harder to do. Much
:07:16. > :07:16.step -- much stand in Theresa May's way of driving back in still Prime
:07:17. > :07:18.Minister in 50 days. So, with the official starting gun
:07:19. > :07:20.fired on the election, attention turns to the battleground
:07:21. > :07:23.seats where parties will be out and about over the next 50 days,
:07:24. > :07:26.fighting for every single vote. One of those battlegrounds
:07:27. > :07:28.is Bolton North East, currently held by labour
:07:29. > :07:30.with a majority of just That's where the Prime
:07:31. > :07:32.Minister is tonight. Our political correspondent,
:07:33. > :07:34.Vicki Young, is following her. Theresa May is already
:07:35. > :07:46.on the campaign trail then? It can be telling where a party
:07:47. > :07:50.leader chooses to make that first significant election speech. Theresa
:07:51. > :07:54.May has come to the north-west of England, an area which will be full
:07:55. > :07:59.of very close battles with Labour in the coming weeks. In Bolton in
:08:00. > :08:02.particular, the Tories think Labour could be vulnerable because, they
:08:03. > :08:07.say, they are out of tune with many of their own supporters who voted
:08:08. > :08:09.for Brexit and, because of that, the Conservatives spy an opportunity.
:08:10. > :08:10.The Conservatives are heading into Labour territory,
:08:11. > :08:13.with ambitious plans to grab seats like Bolton North East
:08:14. > :08:15.that have been beyond their reach for 20 years.
:08:16. > :08:17.Labour areas which voted for Brexit could be fertile
:08:18. > :08:37.Theresa May thinks she can win them over. About providing the strongly
:08:38. > :08:40.leadership this country needs. It's about strengthening our ad in the
:08:41. > :08:45.ahead and sticking to our plan for a stronger Britain that will enable us
:08:46. > :08:49.to secure that more stable and secure future for this country and
:08:50. > :08:52.take the right long-term decisions for the future.
:08:53. > :08:55.And as the voters of Bolton digest news of the snap election,
:08:56. > :08:56.some have already made up their minds.
:08:57. > :09:05.I think she is a strong leader, not just because she is a woman,
:09:06. > :09:08.And I think she will do the country well.
:09:09. > :09:10.She's not messing around with all this bickering
:09:11. > :09:13.in Parliament and, you know, she is trying to do a good
:09:14. > :09:17.job of a bad situation that she has been left in.
:09:18. > :09:20.Labour hope to succeed by attacking the government's record
:09:21. > :09:26.Things they hope will matter to people.
:09:27. > :09:33.I definitely think he relates closely to, you know, the lower,
:09:34. > :09:36.Labour, but obviously it depends on issues
:09:37. > :09:41.on health care and education, those are my main
:09:42. > :09:48.Bolton is just the kind of place where the Tories think they can make
:09:49. > :09:52.Theresa May will be appealing to the Ukip and Labour voters
:09:53. > :09:59.Telling them that she is now the person to deliver on that
:10:00. > :10:06.And as voters focus on choosing their next
:10:07. > :10:08.Prime Minister, some question the Labour leader's credibility.
:10:09. > :10:12.I usually vote Ukip, but I will vote Conservative.
:10:13. > :10:18.So rather than have that idiot, Jeremy Corbyn,
:10:19. > :10:25.Because, like she says, he can only lead a political demonstration,
:10:26. > :10:30.I have always been Labour and stuff like that,
:10:31. > :10:36.He just seems like he doesn't know what he's doing.
:10:37. > :10:39.This battle has just begun but today Theresa May signalled she is ready
:10:40. > :10:42.to challenge the Labour Party on their own turf.
:10:43. > :10:48.The former Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced he's
:10:49. > :10:51.standing down as an MP to concentrate on his
:10:52. > :10:55.new job as editor of the London Evening Standard.
:10:56. > :10:57.He'd faced intense criticism after taking on the newspaper job
:10:58. > :11:00.alongside his job in Parliament, as our deputy political editor,
:11:01. > :11:14.From political big beast to big city editor and the greenest back in the
:11:15. > :11:19.newsroom, the new boss in Fleet Street chooses to see his future as
:11:20. > :11:27.moving on, not coming down. George Osborne told me today he would use
:11:28. > :11:31.his new role is liberal Conservative used to fight against any partial
:11:32. > :11:35.vision of Brexit. My job is to speak for my readers in this country and
:11:36. > :11:41.its future. Our country has got some big decisions to make about the kind
:11:42. > :11:43.of Britain we want to be, and those values of openness, tolerance,
:11:44. > :11:47.diversity, enterprise are the values in hold dear and the ones I've
:11:48. > :11:51.fought for in government as Chancellor, and that I fought for in
:11:52. > :11:56.Parliament at the MP for Tatton, and I'm going to fight for them at the
:11:57. > :11:59.Evening Standard. Strategist in a hard hat, visionary in five is
:12:00. > :12:08.forced out to build Tory support in areas off-limits since Thatcher. --
:12:09. > :12:16.visionary in hi-vis. Close to David Cameron, they rose and fell over
:12:17. > :12:19.Brexit. Can being an editor ever compensate for never being Prime
:12:20. > :12:23.Minister? I am very excited to be the editor of the in-depth -- of the
:12:24. > :12:27.Evening Standard, and the exciting thing is not how you engaged in the
:12:28. > :12:31.public of the debate of whether you engage, and I found... But
:12:32. > :12:35.realistically, you wish to be Prime Minister and you will not now be. I
:12:36. > :12:40.count myself as nothing other than incredibly fortunate, to be an MP,
:12:41. > :12:44.to represent the seat that I did and also to be Chancellor for six years,
:12:45. > :12:48.and I'm proud to have been part of a team that turned round the fortunes
:12:49. > :12:54.first of all of my party and then the country. Perspective or a brave
:12:55. > :12:57.front on a dream? The coalition government hung together, as Osborne
:12:58. > :13:04.planned, and in the end, as he planned, the Lib Dems were hung out
:13:05. > :13:09.by the voters that I don't think he ever had great popular appeal in the
:13:10. > :13:11.country as a large but he loved the game of politics in Westminster and
:13:12. > :13:19.Whitehall and he relished that kind of thing. Wood looking back, he
:13:20. > :13:25.insists he is proud. His so-called omnishambles budget quashed over.
:13:26. > :13:31.Brexit, he is philosophical. What do you regret most, Brexit or taxing
:13:32. > :13:38.pasties? I did eight budgets. You don't get all of them right. And, in
:13:39. > :13:43.the end, you have to be judged on whether you work from your own
:13:44. > :13:45.values. How do you want history to remember you? Somebody who left
:13:46. > :13:48.Britain in a better than I found it. So let's join our political editor,
:13:49. > :13:50.Laura Kuenssberg, in Westminster. With 50 days to go,
:13:51. > :13:53.the Prime Minister is already out campaigning, but there's already
:13:54. > :14:05.controversy after she ruled out That's right. It's never takes
:14:06. > :14:10.politicians very long to start an argument, does it, and here we are,
:14:11. > :14:13.the first tussle well underway, not over any policy or plan or manifesto
:14:14. > :14:18.but about a very big, central part of how this campaign will be
:14:19. > :14:22.conducted. Television debates are relatively new fangled in this
:14:23. > :14:27.country. They have been watched by millions when they have happened
:14:28. > :14:31.and, for many voters, particularly young voters, the evidence suggests
:14:32. > :14:33.it's been a really important way of people feeling they connect with the
:14:34. > :14:39.campaigns. Theresa May is adamant that she is not going to take part.
:14:40. > :14:43.The opposition parties are all furious. They are relishing every
:14:44. > :14:46.chance of accusing her of being frightened, they say she is too
:14:47. > :14:50.scared to take take them on, she is somehow hiding away, and the
:14:51. > :14:54.broadcasters want these events happen and they could go ahead with
:14:55. > :14:59.some kind of format, even if Theresa May doesn't want to take part. The
:15:00. > :15:03.truth of this, and perhaps the reality for Theresa May and her
:15:04. > :15:07.calculation, is, as David Cameron discovered after taking part in one
:15:08. > :15:12.set of debates, these debates are a huge opportunity for the underdog in
:15:13. > :15:16.a campaign but, for the front runners, they have a lot to lose.
:15:17. > :15:20.For now, Number Ten is adamant that it is adamant they are not going to
:15:21. > :15:29.budge. At the moment, they can take the flak for a few days over not
:15:30. > :15:32.taking part but is this the kind of row that could blow up? Theresa May
:15:33. > :15:36.is never particularly plan of parading in front of TV cameras and
:15:37. > :15:39.a hunch right now is that she will stick to their guns.
:15:40. > :15:42.And you can find out much more about the election
:15:43. > :15:45.on June 8th by visiting our webpage at bbc.co.uk/news.
:15:46. > :15:52.The snap general election is confirmed for Thursday June 8th -
:15:53. > :15:54.after parliament votes overwhelmingly to approve it.
:15:55. > :16:05.I can't believe that! I cannot believe all of this!
:16:06. > :16:08.And we catch up with Brenda from Bristol -
:16:09. > :16:09.whose forthright views yesterday on the prospect
:16:10. > :16:11.of another general election - went viral...
:16:12. > :16:13.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...
:16:14. > :16:16.1000-1 outsider Rory McLeod is just a frame away from knocking
:16:17. > :16:18.pre-tournament favourite Judd Trump out in the first round
:16:19. > :16:28.of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible.
:16:29. > :16:31.Prince Harry says he's been amazed by the response over the last few
:16:32. > :16:34.days after he spoke out for the first time about his
:16:35. > :16:38.difficulties dealing with his mother's death.
:16:39. > :16:41.This morning he officially opened the London marathon expo -
:16:42. > :16:43.where runners, taking part on Sunday, go to collect
:16:44. > :16:48.His brother Prince William has also opened up about dealing with Diana's
:16:49. > :16:50.death saying the shock of losing his mother
:16:51. > :16:55.Our Royal correspondent Peter Hunt's report contains flash
:16:56. > :17:00.Harry and his little helper Melissa, getting the London Marathon
:17:01. > :17:07.It's a race which, this year, has a special focus
:17:08. > :17:10.on a princely passion - mental health.
:17:11. > :17:13.Prince Harry has attracted widespread praise this week
:17:14. > :17:16.for his honesty when he spoke of the anguish and the anxiety
:17:17. > :17:21.he suffered for years after his mother's death.
:17:22. > :17:23.It was only right to share my experience, to help,
:17:24. > :17:27.to hope and to encourage others to come forward, and sort of reduce
:17:28. > :17:33.To make it easier for them to talk about their own experience.
:17:34. > :17:42.No, I mean, look - when you've heard so many stories
:17:43. > :17:46.from so many other people, and if you can relate to that,
:17:47. > :17:52.then it's only right that you talk about your own experiences.
:17:53. > :17:55.All the experts you've met, they would have told you one
:17:56. > :17:57.of the key issues is funding, that there isn't enough
:17:58. > :18:03.That's not for, as you probably know, that's not our mission.
:18:04. > :18:06.Our mission is to remove the stigma of mental health so we can provide
:18:07. > :18:08.a platform for people to be able to discuss it.
:18:09. > :18:11.But the risk is you could be encouraging people to seek
:18:12. > :18:14.No, and that's something that we've been completely aware
:18:15. > :18:17.of over the last year, but the fact and the reality
:18:18. > :18:19.is that, as I said, the appetite is there.
:18:20. > :18:21.Once the appetite is there, things will change.
:18:22. > :18:26.It's not my position, it's not our position
:18:27. > :18:33.So we will do everything that we can to encourage the conversation,
:18:34. > :18:40.remove the stigma, so that everything else can then take place.
:18:41. > :18:42.Opening up about the past is a brotherly trait.
:18:43. > :18:44.In a BBC documentary, Prince William has provided
:18:45. > :18:50.an insight into the trauma of his bereavement.
:18:51. > :18:53.The shock is the biggest thing, and I still feel, you know,
:18:54. > :18:56.20 years later, about my mother, I still have shock within me.
:18:57. > :19:00.You think shock can't last that long, but it does.
:19:01. > :19:04.It's such an unbelievably big moment in your life.
:19:05. > :19:13.An upbeat Harry believes their campaign is at a tipping point.
:19:14. > :19:17.The UK, he hopes, will lead the way, and the world, by removing the taboo
:19:18. > :19:26.Police have named a man they're searching for in connection
:19:27. > :19:29.with an acid attack at an East London nightclub
:19:30. > :19:31.on Monday, in which 20 people were injured.
:19:32. > :19:34.Arthur Collins, who's 25 and from Hertfordshire,
:19:35. > :19:36.is the boyfriend of the reality TV star, Ferne McCann.
:19:37. > :19:39.Officers found firearms and cannabis plants when they searched his
:19:40. > :19:49.Rush hour commuters on one of the UK's busiest train lines
:19:50. > :19:52.are facing major problems tonight after a track-side fire completely
:19:53. > :19:56.There will be no trains going in or out of the station
:19:57. > :19:59.on the West Coast main line until at least tomorrow morning.
:20:00. > :20:02.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott is at Euston station.
:20:03. > :20:08.Major problems for a lot of travellers tonight?
:20:09. > :20:14.There are, you can probably see behind me the crowd is gathering.
:20:15. > :20:17.We've been here a couple of hours and in that time, I've seen
:20:18. > :20:21.literally thousands of people turning up. People have not heard
:20:22. > :20:25.the news, they think they will make a normal journey home, they arrive
:20:26. > :20:30.and they see the doors to Euston station are shut, it is Britain's
:20:31. > :20:33.fifth busiest station. Rail staff have been on hand handing out
:20:34. > :20:37.leaflets and giving people alternative routes home, it is one
:20:38. > :20:42.of the busiest train lines in the country. It is not just commuters
:20:43. > :20:45.but people going to Birmingham, Manchester and Scotland, not knowing
:20:46. > :20:49.what to do. They've been handing out possible alternatives but in that
:20:50. > :20:52.time I've heard a lot of people on the phone having a frantic
:20:53. > :20:56.conversation, literally I have no idea how I'm going to get home.
:20:57. > :21:00.Don't expect me. Why have we shot one of the busiest stations in the
:21:01. > :21:07.country? A fire knocked out one of the power cables and if you don't
:21:08. > :21:10.have power, you don't have signals and you don't have those you cannot
:21:11. > :21:14.safely run trains. A team is on-site, assessing the damage. They
:21:15. > :21:17.know they had to replace 100 metres of power line, they hope to get it
:21:18. > :21:20.done by the morning and will be working through the night. Don't
:21:21. > :21:25.expect to get a train tonight I would say but it should be OK in the
:21:26. > :21:29.morning, there may be some early disruption, it is such a busy line
:21:30. > :21:32.and the trains are in the wrong places but touchwood it should be
:21:33. > :21:34.resolved in the morning but tonight is terrible. Richard Wescott with
:21:35. > :21:38.the latest there, thank you. After weeks of speculation it's been
:21:39. > :21:41.announced that the Wales rugby star Sam Warburton will Captain
:21:42. > :21:43.the British and Irish Lions on their But England skipper
:21:44. > :21:47.Dylan Hartley has been left out The coach Warren Gatland said he'd
:21:48. > :21:51.named his team after some Here's our Sports
:21:52. > :22:02.Correspondent Katie Gornall. There had been months of speculation
:22:03. > :22:07.but one man seemed sure of the spotlight. Once again, Sam Warburton
:22:08. > :22:10.will lead the Lyons, this time against the worlds best, New
:22:11. > :22:16.Zealand. It will be the toughest I've done. But it is the biggest on
:22:17. > :22:19.I've had as well. Being captain of the Lions for the second time
:22:20. > :22:23.against New Zealand, that ranks as the pinnacle of my career. 41
:22:24. > :22:28.players were chosen by Warren Gatland and, as predicted, England
:22:29. > :22:33.dominate the squad. Wales have 12 players, and Ireland, who beat the
:22:34. > :22:38.all Blacks back in November, have 11. Scotland only have two. Half the
:22:39. > :22:41.squad make their Lions debut, including the rookie prop Kyle
:22:42. > :22:48.Sinckler, yet to start a Test match for England. Warburton has been
:22:49. > :22:52.given the armband despite no longer being captain of Wales. It is the
:22:53. > :22:55.second time Sam Warburton stood in front of these cameras as the
:22:56. > :22:59.captain of the Lions and even though he is injured, there was no danger
:23:00. > :23:01.of him being left out by Warren Gatland.
:23:02. > :23:05.Surprises in the squad were lurking elsewhere.
:23:06. > :23:10.Despite leading England to back-to-back 6 Nations titles, Dylan
:23:11. > :23:14.Harland -- Dylan Hartley is out of the squad, as is Joe Launchbury.
:23:15. > :23:17.After an underwhelming 6 Nations, Wales have more players than
:23:18. > :23:21.expected while Scottish fans will be disappointed that Stuart Hogg is
:23:22. > :23:26.only one of two making the trip. I would love to have seen other boys
:23:27. > :23:28.go on, but you need to look at the squad and the pressure Warren
:23:29. > :23:33.Gatland is under to pick a squad. I would not want to do it. Four years
:23:34. > :23:38.ago, the Lions won the series in Australia but what is good enough to
:23:39. > :23:44.beat Australia might not be good enough to beat New Zealand.
:23:45. > :23:47.Lions beat them once back in 1971. Being selected could be the easy
:23:48. > :23:52.part... Katie Cornel, BBC News.
:23:53. > :23:56.Back now to our main story - and the news that the general
:23:57. > :23:58.election will now definitely take place in 50 days' time.
:23:59. > :24:00.We've heard a lot from the Prime Minister since
:24:01. > :24:02.she announced her surprise plan yesterday morning.
:24:03. > :24:05.We've also heard a lot from Brenda from Bristol - whose reaction -
:24:06. > :24:09.to the news when she was stopped in the street by the BBC yesterday -
:24:10. > :24:18.In fact, she's become something of a media star!
:24:19. > :24:21.Our correspondent Jon Kay went back to see her today to see how
:24:22. > :24:30.Brenda, 75 years old and suddenly an Internet sensation.
:24:31. > :24:34.I can't stand this...I can't stand this...I can't stand this...
:24:35. > :24:37.Just one comment to BBC News about being fed up
:24:38. > :24:43.with elections, and this retired secretary went viral.
:24:44. > :24:49.Somebody here in America saying "Well said, Brenda!"
:24:50. > :25:13.Quite frankly, no, because I don't possess any form of technology!
:25:14. > :25:23.She's been deluged with media offers since anti-election broadcast,
:25:24. > :25:28.but not all the responses have been positive.
:25:29. > :25:35.There are some people on social media saying Brenda is wrong here,
:25:36. > :25:38.that we fought for the right to vote in elections, that we should be
:25:39. > :25:41.In my very humble opinion, there is hardly anybody
:25:42. > :25:44.in any of the parties that you would put your
:25:45. > :25:48.We need somebody that's got a little bit of guts, you know,
:25:49. > :25:54.It seems Brenda has got many of us going.
:25:55. > :25:58.A floating voter, now the unlikely early star of this election.
:25:59. > :26:01.Not since her days in amateur dramatics has Brenda known
:26:02. > :26:22.Pretty quiet on the weather front today, some sunshine across central
:26:23. > :26:27.and southern parts of the UK. In the rest of the week it will be a little
:26:28. > :26:32.bit more cloudy, it will turn warmer as we head towards Friday and
:26:33. > :26:36.freshen up again a little bit. A lot of cloud across the North Atlantic,
:26:37. > :26:41.streaming our way. Some spots of rain this evening across northern
:26:42. > :26:50.and central areas. The South stays clear overnight, and then it will
:26:51. > :26:51.cloud over. Last night it was cold, frosty in places, minus four
:26:52. > :26:55.degrees. It won't be as cold tonight but
:26:56. > :26:59.chilly spots in southern areas. For many of us, it is closer to nine or
:27:00. > :27:03.10 degrees and tomorrow, in more cloudy day compared to today. We had
:27:04. > :27:08.so much fine weather today, tomorrow will be a case of hazy skies at
:27:09. > :27:14.best. Temperature is not bad, wherever you are, across the country
:27:15. > :27:19.they will be more or less the same. 13, 14, 15 degrees. On Friday, this
:27:20. > :27:22.cool front comes down from the north, bringing rain to western
:27:23. > :27:32.Scotland and then fresh air moves across the UK as we move through
:27:33. > :27:35.Friday. Ahead of that weather front it could get to 17 degrees in
:27:36. > :27:38.London. That's the end of the week and on Saturday, high pressure
:27:39. > :27:43.across the UK, a lot of settled and mostly dry weather. Fresh air across
:27:44. > :27:47.the north of the country, single figure temperatures on Saturday, and
:27:48. > :27:51.some fresh air moving further southwards into Sunday. Of course,
:27:52. > :27:55.it is the London Marathon then, it might be on the fresh side in the
:27:56. > :27:59.morning, the afternoon does not look bad. Next week, this nasty
:28:00. > :28:03.low-pressure sweeps across Scotland, a long way off, bringing some gales
:28:04. > :28:04.and that could change. We will keep you up-to-date with
:28:05. > :28:07.that but short-term, it is quiet.