of repairing the damage. also in the programme. in beijing the chinese communist party congress continues but some parts of the city are back under a covid lockdown. and, a jury in new york clears the actor, kevin spacey, of making unwanted sexual advances on a iii year old. hello and welcome to the programme. britain is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job by far the shortest tenure in british history. her leadership foundered when the markets took fright, the pound crashed, she sacked her chancellor kwasi kwarteng and was forced into a humiliating series of u turns. we start our coverage with the bbc s political editor chris mason. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister,
2022, the year of three prime ministers, at least. after an astonishing decade in british politics, another unprecedented moment. is politics, another unprecedented moment. , , ., moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions - moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions of - voters for there s impressions of the latest events at westminster. itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. i wouldn t vote conservative now, no. why not? because i don t feel we can trust them. the likely candidates include some very familiar faces, but labour says yet another change of prime minister should trigger a general election. the public are entitled to have their say, and that s why there should be a general election. we ll have all the news and analysis of the prime minister s resignation. also on this extended edition of bbc news at ten. people who work with chil
was elected by the conservative party. i have spoken to his majesty the king to notify him thati i m resigning as leader of the conservative party. it was just yesterday that truss fiercely declared before parliament that she was, quote, a fighter, not a quitter. but the reaction and the fallout from her government s handling of the current economic and energy crisis in the u.k. clearly forced her hand. truss will now be the shortest serving prime minister in british history. let s get straight over to scott mcclain. he s outside of the prime minister s residence in london. so, scott, what now? reporter: if you ask the opposition labor party, there ought to be a general election but the conservative party has zero incentive to actually call a general election. because if you consult the polls, you will find that the conservative party were an election be held today would be absolutely trounced by the labor party. labor likely getting twice or por than twice the share of t
more than 20 thousand nhs ambulance workers will take part in another strike over pay, manning picket lines across much of england and wales. former employees of the welsh rugby union have accused the organisation of having a toxic culture of sexism. everton have sacked manager, frank lampard, after less than a year in charge. their defeat at west ham on saturday was everton s ninth loss in 12 league games. and, meet the uk s youngest member of mensa. four year old teddy taught himself to read when he was just two, and can count to 100 in seven languages including mandarin. the prime minister has asked his independent ethics adviser, to examine how the conservative party chairman and former chancellor, nadhim zahawi, settled a multi million pound tax dispute. rishi sunak says there are questions that needed answers. mr zahawi says his error was careless but not deliberate, and his advisers say he doesn t intend to resign. labour however warns he needs to come clean and
the contentious weeklong battle for speaker. kevin mccarthy s rocky road to the gavel including sessions made to the far-right s holdouts is raising fresh questions about how a republican-led house will govern. earlier today, house republicans getting their take. sometimes democracy is messy, but i would argue that s exactly how the founders intended it. they wanted real debate, real input from all people, and then you get a decision. it is positive, not negative. it is not weakening kevin mccarthy it is providing the speaker with the tools he needs for republicans to go to the map of the american people. 218-plus republicans realized that kevin mccarthy needs a chance to govern, and we are going to give him a chance. well, democrats giving a different view earlier today. the leader hakeem jeffries expressing concerns with the prolonged speaker fight means for the house moving forward. this function was historic that we saw this week is not at an end, it is just the