i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. staff at downing street have been accused of holding two parties the night before the duke of edinburgh's funeral in april. restrictions in england at the time banned indoor mixing between different households, and meant the queen had to sit alone during the service. mps are calling for borisjohnson to resign — including conservative andrew bridgen who has submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister. we are getting news the former communications director who was reportedly giving a leaving speech on date he has said he wants to apologise unreservedly for the anger and hurt caused by a party held to mark his leaving do at downing street months. he said it should not have happened at the time it did. when you think about all the references to whether or not a gathering at a party or not, he has used the word party. we are going to be talking to da

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. coming up on breakfast this morning... the show must go on — we'll meet the understudies stepping on to centre stage, as covid isolation leaves theatres short of their leading stars. it's the letters game taking the internet by storm — we'll give you a step—by—step guide to playing wordle, and we'll even have countdown's susie dent on hand to help. # dance your cares away. # worries for another day. # let the music play. # down in fraggle rock...# and a trip down memory lane — fraggle rock is back for us to dance our cares away to. and we'll hear all about the new series just before eight this morning. and that tune will be in your head all day. it and that tune will be in your head all da . , and that tune will be in your head allda. , . all day. it is always in my head. they have _ all day. it is always in my head. they have kept _ all day. it is always in my head. they have kept the _ all day. it is a

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. va nessa felt vanessa felt is speaking to a counsellor from the london vanessa felt is speaking to a counsellorfrom the london borough of hackney. hello, this is breakfast with sally nugent and dan walker. get some more news on our top story. the prime minister's former top adviser dominic cummings has claimed borisjohnson "waved aside" warnings of a planned drinks party at downing street during the first lockdown. last week, the prime minister apologised to mps and said he believed he was attending a "work event". number 10 have denied the latest allegations. joining us now is thejustice secretary, dominic raab. good morning to you, mr raab. great to see you. thank you forjoining us. i would like to start if i can with a really simple question, a basic principle. if the minister applies to parliament, do you believe they should resign? == if applies to parliament, do you believe they should resign? -- if a minister lies. _ believe they

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. mps are returning to westminster today after a weekend in which many of them will have been finding out what their constituents think about the way downing street was operating during the pandemic. we can speak now to the education secretary nadhim zahawi. good morning, mr zahawi. good morning, mrzahawi. thank good morning, mr zahawi. thank you for being with us today. let's talk about the weekend. how concerned have you been that this ongoing saga about parties, whether they were christmas parties or lockdown parties, are turning voters against the government?— parties, are turning voters against the government? good morning, dan. look, for the government? good morning, dan. look. for me. — the government? good morning, dan. look. for me. you _ the government? good morning, dan. look, for me, you will— the government? good morning, dan. look, for me, you will know _ the government? good morning, dan. look, for me, you w

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. coming up on breakfast this morning... bird—watchers assemble — we'll be live at sherwood forest in nottinghamshire, to find out how you can get involved in this year's national bird counting survey, which gets under way today. binge? where sean connery puts his rubbish. remembering a life in comedy — we'll have tributes to the late, great barry cryer, who has died at the age of 86. step back and admire. and we'll be joined by the queen of colour, sophie robinson, to discuss her new interior design show, dream home makeovers. living independently into old age is the hope for many of us. but if often relies on a service that is increasingly under threat — home care. that's because a staffing crisis in the sector means it is being rationed, and the regulator has told breakfast the vacancy rate is continuing to rise. jayne mccubbin has been to meet people

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and nina warhurst. we have been talking about this story regarding cladding today. the government will give details in the commons this afternoon of its plan to spare more flat—owners in england from the ruinous costs of removing unsafe cladding, more than four years after the grenfell tower fire. joining us from our newsroom in london is the housing secretary, michael gove. he will speak in more detail about this later on today but where exactly is this money coming from? from those who are responsible. we know that ever since the terrible tragedy at grenfell, we have had a building safety crisis in this country and we know that in particular what we needed to do was remove cladding from high—rise buildings but there were other things we needed to do as well to make sure the people were safe. and ultimately, the key question is, who put that cladding up? who was responsible for the state of those buildings? they are the individuals, they a

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. coming up on today's programme. we'll be speaking to jay blades in around 20 minutes. the "repair shop" star — who has dyslexia — has made a documentary about learning to read at the age of 51. the actor romola garai has got behind the camera to direct her first feature—length film — which is not for the faint—hearted. she'll be on the sofa before 8. and take a look at this. pushing a cart up and down the street — i suppose that's one way to train. that man making the queen laugh is raf gunner shanwayne stephens, who is also part of the jamaican men's bobsleigh team. we'll be catching up with him before he heads off to the winter olympics. we thought it might happen yesterday. many people did. then we thought, surely, today. you know what we are talking about. now we understand there's a good chance that a report into alleged parties at downing stre

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now it's back to sally and dan. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with sally nugent and dan walker. more pressure for the prime minister this morning, after it was revealed that downing street staff met inside number 10 to celebrate his birthday during the first lockdown. it's the latest huge headache in what has been a difficult week for boris johnson, as ros atkins reports. in the last six days, the pressure on borisjohnson has continued to grow. this was on wednesday. you have sat there too long for all the good you have done. in the name of god, go. the former minister, david davis, wanted the prime minister to go. borisjohnson declined. i take full responsibility for everything done in this government and throughout the pandemic. also on wednesday, the conservative mp christian wakeford defected to the labour party. on thursday, a conservative mp who had called for mrjohnson's resignation alleged he'd been threatened by the gov

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. now though it's back to naga and charlie. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. secondary school pupils in england will no longer need to wear face masks in class from this morning, as the government's plan b measures are phased out. advice to work from home has also ended, and from next thursday, mandatory face coverings in public places and covid passports, previously used to gain entry to nightclubs and large events, will both be axed. lots to talk about this mornining with the health secretary sajid javid, who joins us from westminster. a lot of people coming to terms with the changes you've announced with plan b measures coming to an end from next thursday. how certain are you that this is the right time to relax those rules? i you that this is the right time to relax those rules?— relax those rules? i am certain because not — relax those rules? i am certain because not least _ relax those rules? i am certain because not least its _ rela

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. bye— bye. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. coming up on the programme this morning. giving police more powers to combat stalking will be debated by mp5 today. we'll be speaking to the fathers of two women, gracie spinks and alice ruggles, who were both killed after being stalked. the actor turned documentary maker ross kemp willjoin us from windsor castle, to tell us all about this year's national thank you day, which isjoining forces with the queen's jubilee celebrations. and, whatever you do, don't miss this. you show me a bit of street and i will show— you show me a bit of street and i will show you some waltzing. when amelia met anton. we'll show you what happened when the 11—year—old cancer survivor had a dancing lesson with her strictly hero. looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the _ looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the entire _ looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the entire show - looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the entire show from

although this week's revelations have made many newswatch viewers angry, others have accused bbc news of getting overexcited by the story. here's caroline. surely there are far more important news items that the bbc should be concentrating on, like the panic stories of omicron issues, current economic situation, housing the afghan refugees or even what vladimir putin is doing rather than whether or not there was a socially distanced get—together in the garden for those who are working extremely hard together in 2020 at a very stressful time and were invited to use a beautiful space to chat with each other and support each other. i'm sure that nurses and doctors also met in staff rooms that were not nearly as luxurious as the number 10 garden to unwind and unload but none of this is being covered by the press who are holding onto this story and making it much bigger than it needs to be. please can the bbc stop this witch—hunt and report on the stories that are relevant and will impact us now. some of the coverage took us away from westminster to hear from families of those bereaved

do you accept that with fewer experienced journalists in the newsroom, mistakes like that are going to happen more? well, mistakes do happen — i'm not going to deny that — but i think in that particular case, it was less with cuts, to be honest, and more to do with covid! it was also 28 december, it was night, i think the teams, actually, are quite thinned out, no doubt about it — but that's not because of cuts so much as where we are between christmas and new year. really? people thought you should have just googled alan dershowitz, you'd have known you shouldn't be putting him on air in that context. well, possibly — actually, i think there was — i think the teams now know that actually, they could have avoided it by doing some kind of more considered handovers to each other on it. but — and we admitted it was a mistake and dealt with it. mistakes happen — they do — but i don't necessarily think there are any more of them now than when ijoined the bbc nearly 40 years ago — or if there are, it's probably a factor of having so much more output. after this week's annou