for a week to pay everything. i ust don-t have mi don t have it. and nyambe lewis vau:han don t have it. and nyambe lewis vaughanjones don t have it. and nyambe lewis vaughan jones in don t have it. and nyambe lewis vaughan jones in the don t have it. and nyambe lewis vaughan jones in the studio - don t have it. and nyambe lewis vaughan jones in the studio in i vaughanjones in the studio in london, also in the news this hour. harrowing and callous, a damning report is published into maternity care at east kent hospital trust. the chief investigator says women were not listened to. 202 families that came forward. in 97, deaths, injuries or other harm could have been different if care had been given to the standards accepted nationally. russian president vladimir putin declares martial law in the four regions of ukraine which were annexed last month. they will be expected to work with russia to boost their war effort. good afternoon. figures show that cost of living is ri
during the conservative leadership contest this summer. we can see the scene live at westminster where the vote is on fracking. it is a motion tabled by the opposition labour party and the government has said it is treating it as a vote of confidence in the government. it is not expected that more than a handful of conservative mps will vote against the government tonight, even though they oppose the change in fracking policy, which reverses the government s position from the last general election manifesto. the prime minister is facing widespread discontent and today she took part in her first premises questions after ditching her flagship tax cuts less than a week ago from the mini budget. let s talk to our political correspondent, helen carter. we will stay looking at the pictures of the house of commons as mps file back in. can you give us a snapshot summary for viewers watching you have just tuned in, summary for viewers watching you havejust tuned in, many summary for v
as leader of the country s most right wing administration since world war ii. now on bbc news, ros atkins on the week. when a prime minister takes office there is no time limit, no fixed number of terms. their leadership stretches out in front of us. margaret thatcher stood down after 11 years. tony blair served ten. recently, though, we ve had four prime ministers in six years all of them conservatives. david cameron left downing street after the brexit vote. theresa may had three years before tory mps intervened. it was the same for borisjohnson. and in early september, it was the turn of liz truss. i am honoured to take on this responsibility. weeks later, at its annual conference, the tory party chair said liz truss was its greatest asset to win the next election. she is the woman who will get britain moving. that, though, is not going to happen any more. wow, one of the shortest lived premierships ever. i liz truss s time is over. when it had onlyjust begun. hello, wel
going to say this morning what i m going to announce to parliament on wednesday. why change inheritance tax when you have the lower paid struggling to pay their bills? this isn t asking you to confirm it. it s a question of principle. why would you do that when people are having such a hard time? i m sorry to say that i m not going to be drawn on any individual tax. i think you can read the papers this morning and you can see that i m going to abolish every single tax. andy gilding was watching that interview with the chancellor and posed this question. we asked bbc news for an answer to that and they told us. afterjeremy hunt had actually made his speech on wednesday, bbc cameras, along with those of other media, were positioned in their traditional spot for a big day at westminster on college green, just outside the houses of parliament in central london. political correspondent ione wells joined ben thompson there on wednesday afternoon to provide some analysis of what had