with dementia, and whether or not they ll get a place. three years ago a high flying businesswoman, drjo wilson, was diagnosed with alzheimers, at the age ofjust 66, and for the past six months, we ve been following her story, as her husband bill has battled to get enough help and care. 0ur uk affairs correspondent, jermey cooke, has the latest. i m back in newcastle. there s word from bill. trouble, i hear. bad news. i m just beyond, beyond everything. i don t know if i m coming or going. i m going round and round in circles. stand up. last year we saw how bill is devoted to his wife, jo. but now the cruel grip of alzheimer s is tightening as the days and weeks go by. have a little sip.
fuelled by food and energy prices. essentially, the surging cost of living is squeezing household budgets leaving many people struggling. 0ur uk political correspondent rob watsonjoins me now. you are a tax raising chancellor presiding over a session in government spending that what you hoped it would be. do you have any hoped it would be. do you have any hope of winning the next election could conservatives win elections when they are trusted with the economy. when they are trusted with the econom . r . when they are trusted with the economy- when they are trusted with the econom . . ., i. , economy. and what you re seeing toda is a economy. and what you re seeing today is a conservative economy. and what you re seeing today is a conservative chancellori today is a conservative chancellor outlining a very difficult path that gets us through this crisis. the chancellor that is speaking to our political editor. let s go to our political editor. let s go to our political editor. l
0ur uk political correspondent jonathan blake has more. they have until the 2nd of september to get their votes in, the conservative party members, they can start doing that from this morning. as you say, rishi sunak is trying to seize the agenda and shore up support for his campaign which is trailing behind liz truss, according to the polls we have seen of conservative party members. he is announcing a significant cut to income tax, describing it as the biggest income tax cut since margaret thatcher s government. radical but realistic, he says. as planned he will reduce the basic rate of income tax from 20p in the pound, to 19p by the end of 2024 and then go on to reduce it further if he were to be prime minister to 16p in the pound by the end of the next parliament, and that could be as late as the end of 2029. this is in stark contrast to what rishi sunak has been saying until very recently when he said that while he did want to cut taxes in the future, the priority in the immediate
this evening, the prime minister was spotted returning to the commons. just six conservative mps have publicly expressed no confidence in him, but that certainly doesn t tell the whole story. 0ur uk political correspondent jonathan blake has sent us this update about the mood in westminster. senior conservative backbencher, summed it up to me tonight as morose. in that interview the prime minister today looked crestfallen, downcast and beaten maybe and tory mps watching that might wonder was it a moment of humility or humiliation for the prime minister? he said again wait for the report to establish the facts and some mps agree but many don t want to wait. and among particularly the newer intake of conservative mps tonight there is a confidence that enough have, or will soon, submit a letter of no confidence in the prime minister to trigger a contest.
into parties at downing street which happened a year ago, potentially in breach of the lockdown rules, has stepped back from that investigation after being linked to a social gathering. an event was held in simon case s own office in whitehall, while london was under lockdown rules. 0ur uk political correspondent nick eardley takes up the story. the biggest event that is happened todayis the biggest event that is happened today is that the conservative party, borisjohnson s party, lost this extraordinary lead they had in one of the seats in the uk parliament. they were had by 23,000 votes in 2019, they have lost the seatin votes in 2019, they have lost the seat in a by election by 6000 votes, and that is led to all these questions about borisjohnson s authority, his position, how much longer he potentially can stay in power. 0ne longer he potentially can stay in power. one of the reasons there is been attributed to that loss is the continued controversy, the continued leak of stories a