´óÏó´«Ã½

0710

Coverage of the Conservative victory in the General Election. The change in the political landscape of Scotland has been spectacular: one Labour MP out of 59 seats, one Conservative, one Liberal Democrat. Everyone else representing the SNP. Norman Smith is the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Assistant Political Editor. Colin Blane is ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondent in Glasgow.

0720

The World Health Organisation is announcing today that the Ebola epidemic in Liberia is over. The World Health Organisation says there hasn't been a case for 42 days, the period it uses as a measure to declare the end of an epidemic. Henry Gray is Operations Coordinator from Medecins Sans Frontiere.

0730

Seventy years ago today the Nazi occupation ended in the Channel Islands; the only British territories to come under German control in the Second World War. About a third of the population, 30,000 people, was evacuated. Those who remained had to deal with a regime that banned people from travelling to Britain, forced all Jews to be registered, imposed a nightly curfew, and built prison camps on Alderney. Bob le Sueur was made MBE after the war for his efforts in helping Russian prisoners who's escaped from the Nazis on Jersey. Dr Louise Wilmot is a Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University who's written on the Channel Islands occupation.

0740

With the final pre-election opinion polls so wildly out, should we consider a ban on them in the month leading up to an election? Why did pollsters get it so wrong this time? The British Polling council has announced its own investigation into the surveys that were done in the run-up to polling day. Tom Mludzinski is head of polling at ComRes.

0750

It was carnage for the Lib Dems who lost 49 seats, with just 8 MPs in the new parliament. In the party’s traditional heartland of South West England they lost every one of their 14 seats from Cheltenham to St Ives. Across the country they shipped votes to Labour and UKIP as well as the Tories. Why did their vote haemorrhage so much? And what now for the party? Zoe Conway is a reporter for the Today Programme. 

Nicola Sturgeon will speak to the new SNP Parliamentary group here in Edinburgh today, the 56 MPs who will be the biggest Nationalist group in the House of Commons since the Irish Party at the end of the nineteenth century. Tom Bateman is a reporter for the Today Programme. Ian Blackford is SNP MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber.

0820

One of the problems with modern politics, so we are often told, is that too many MPs are professional politicians. We don't see the mix in Parliament of backgrounds and careers that we once saw. With so many new MPs in place following the election, will this change? Tim Montgomerie is a Times columnist and Conservative blogger. 

0825

Australian police have arrested a 17-year-old on terror charges in a Melbourne suburb and say they have halted a plot to detonate three homemade bombs in the city. ´óÏó´«Ã½ News correspondent Phil Mercer is in Sydney.

0830

Why did Labour perform so badly in the election – not just in Scotland, but also in England? What was behind Labour’s party’s worst election performance since 1987? Alan Johnson is Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle and former Home Secretary between 2009-2010.

0840

Further analysis of SNP success in the General Election (see 0810). Andrew Wilson is a former SNP MSP and adviser to Alex Salmond. Mure Dickie is Scotland correspondent of the Financial Times.

0845

Victory Day in Moscow, the 70th anniversary, to mark the end of WWII, is a massive deal for the Russians. Up to 28 million Soviets died in the fight vs fascism.  Western leaders have refused Putin’s invite to attend the parade, because they don’t want to be at a display of Russian military might whilst the war in Ukraine is going on. Sarah Rainsford is ´óÏó´«Ã½ Correspondent in St Petersburg.

0850

Further analysis of new MPs (see 0820). Heidi Allen is Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire. Wes Streeting is Labour MP for Ilford North. Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh is SNP MP for Ochil and South Perthshire

All subject to change.