township of soweto. voters injapan are choosing members of the country s upper house of parliament in elections overshadowed by the assassination of former prime minister, shinzo abe. and in the tennis defending champion novak djokovic faces nick kyrgios in the men s final at wimbledon later today. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the battle to become britain s next prime minister is intensifying. the international trade minister, penny mordaunt, has become the ninth candidate to enter the conservative leadership contest. most candidates are focussing on their plans for the economy with the former health secretary, sajid javid, planning to bring forward the 1p income tax cut to next year. both mrjavid and the former cabinet minister, jeremy hunt, are also pledging to reduce corporation tax. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. the two newest entrants to the race are the first to set out detailed plans and both focus on
dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belonging to the natural party of government. this week, it s looked more like the natural party of farce. two cabinet ministers announced publicly that they d had enough of boris johnson. mrjohnson had not had enough of himself and for 48 hours, he dug in his heels, refusing to resign as prime minister, even as, one after another, members of his government resigned. in all, five cabinet level and 23 junior ministers quit because he wouldn t, along with a couple of dozen parliamentary aides. on wednesday evening, the prime minister sacked one of his oldest allies who d told him to go. another, who d accepted promotion from him just the night before, then deserted his cause too. mrjohnson insisted the voters had given him a mandat
again, these other temperatures come the end the night 11 or 13 degrees. a bit warmer than last night. following on from that, a lot more sunshine to come tomorrow, the breeze picks up on the far north west and there is a bit more cloud coming into scotland and northern ireland, but ahead of that for england and wales, strong sunshine again, those damages continuing to rise all the way from southern england through the midlands into yorkshire, temperatures are going to be above 30 degrees tomorrow afternoon. not as warm as that of scotland and northern ireland, nor indeed in some coastal areas as well. because we have those sea breezes. both of those games on monday near the coast so temperatures will not be quite as high here, but are still going to be dry and sunny. that heat and sunshine is underneath that area of high pressure, that gets squeezed away overnight into tuesday as that weather front moves down from the north west, but i had a bit, still very warm airand north
and then there were nine. trade minister penny mordaunt to throw her hat in the ring to be the next tory leader. many candidates but one key issue, taxes. former health secretary sajid javid will cut them if he is prime minister, including a tax rise to help the health service when he led it. iii tax rise to help the health service when he led it. tax rise to help the health service when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get growth, - when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get growth, if - when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get growth, if we | rises we will not get growth, if we do not get growth we will not be able to help the public services. i have never came across a decision, especially bay, which does not involve risk. especially bay, which does not
the us appeals to politicians to act swiftly. the economic situation is not going to change overnight. it is going to be a difficult recovery period. the international community will need to come in and help and that is why the un was warning there is an impending humanitarian emergency. at wimbledon, the men s final goes into a tense third set with defending champion novak djokovic facing nick kyrgios and, temperatures rise around the uk with some areas hitting 30 degrees today and scotland records its warmest day of the year so far. the international trade minister, penny mordaunt, has become the ninth candidate to enter the conservative leadership contest. most candidates are focusing on their plans for the economy. the former health secretary, sajid javid, wants to bring forward the 1p income tax cut to next year. both mrjavid and the former cabinet minister, jeremy hunt, are also pledging to reduce corporation tax from 19% to 15%. here s our political correspondent,