as the china party conference begins, the united states says president xi is leading the country in a more aggressive direction. and one of the literary world s biggest prizes, the booker, is won by sri lanka s shahaan karunartilaka, about his country s civil war. i country s civil war. was writing a murder mystery and i was writing a murder mystery and itjust seemed every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the british prime minister, liz truss, has said she is sorry and accepts responsibility for mistakes in her economic plan. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new chancellor, jeremy hunt. in an interview with our political editor, chris mason, she said the plans had gone too far and too fast , but insisted she would lead the conservatives into the next election. inside ten downing street tonight, today s prime minister in the corridors, those of yesterday on the wall. prime minister, who is to
mystery and it just seemed that every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the british prime minister liz truss has apologised for mistakes in the government s financial strategy a strategy that she set in motion. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new finance ministerjeremy hunt. he was in parliament to explain why the economic policy was being scrapped. the prime minister herself was keeping a low profile. in a moment, we ll hearfrom her. first, our political editor chris mason has the story of how the day unfolded. first thing this morning, it felt like a government on the run. sorry about the rain, guys. the new chancellor was even apologising for the weather. jeremy hunt was jogging before dawn thought of breaking. any more u turns? the answer was yes. news was already breaking. mr hunt was performing the last rites on almost all of liz truss s plans her programme for government dead. living
we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the british prime minister liz truss has apologised for mistakes in the government s financial strategy a strategy that she set in motion. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new finance minister jeremy hunt. he was in parliament on monday to explain why the economic policy was being scrapped. the prime minister herself was keeping a low profile. in a moment, we ll hear an exclusive interview with her. but first, our political editor chris mason has the story of how the day unfolded. first thing this morning, it felt like a government on the run. sorry about the rain, guys. the new chancellor was even apologising for the weather. jeremy hunt was jogging before dawn thought of breaking. any more u turns? the answer was yes. news was already breaking. mr hunt was performing the last rites on almost all of liz truss s plans her programme for government dead. living hour by hour. this i
welcome to the programme, we begin in london. borisjohnson has announced that he will not stand in the contest to choose the next conservative leader, and prime minister. he insisted he had enough support among mps, but said that putting himself forward was not the right thing to do . nominations close on monday afternoon, with former chancellor rishi sunak and cabinet minister penny mordaunt the only declared candidates. our political editor, chris mason, has been following the day s developments. are you running for the leadership, mr sunak? could september s loser be october s prime minister? rishi sunak is a step closer to downing street tonight, beaten by liz truss just weeks ago, he could replace her as soon as tomorrow. declaring his candidacy today, he wrote: he also felt the need to say: throughout the day, the public support for mr sunak among tory mps has continued to tick up. this minister reckons borisjohnson would be a guaranteed disaster. what we can t do is h