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
also on 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. the uk 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, she was back too this time
around the world, leaders have been giving their reaction to news of liz truss s resignation. in the us, president biden thanked her for her partnership on the war in ukraine and said the us and uk would continue to cooperate closely. in france, president macron said it was important for britain to find stability as soon as possible. our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley has more details on the global reaction. we re following some breaking news out of the united kingdom. after less than two months on thejob. her resignation made headlines around the world, capturing the international bewilderment at the chaos in the uk. this from italy, no stranger itself to short governments. and a german journalist found herself having to repeat the expletives used by one mp last night. i m bleep furious and i don t bleep care any more. - she continues in german. in brussels, eu leaders holding a summit to discuss the world s energy crisis were, for a time, sidetracked by the extraordinar
will be our next prime minister. but businesses like this drinks firm in sunderland have found the political and price instability hard to manage. for us, clarity and uncertainty are the things i think every business is struggling with. we have been through a cycle where we were getting a cost increase on raw materials every month, and that needs to settle. very few businesses feel in a position to help grow the economy which was and is the government s goal. so confidence has slumped. there s no recruitment, no exporting, all these are down, so we need political stability to make decisions to employ someone to invest or expand their business. that is not happening at the minute. and politics needs to catch up. in 11 days, the government is due to publish a revised and independently scrutinised economic plan. until then, a cloud hangs over the markets and the wider economy. simon jack, bbc news. joining me is our economics editor, faisal islam. would it be too much to say that the mark
if there isn t one, ms sturgeon says it that would be a ludicrous, a ridiculous idea, if borisjohnson were to be a candidate to return as prime minister. and just taking a step back for a minute, this has a potential impact on the debate about scotland s future. in 2014, the argument advanced by supporters of the union was that it would bring stability, it would bring prosperity. nicola sturgeon says, well, just look around. the opposite is happening. although there are obviously difficult questions to answer about independence, she says what s happened has made her case for her. it s been said in the last few days that westminster has ceased to have a functioning government. well, northern ireland has been without a fully functioning devolved government since february. that was when the democratic unionist party in effect withdrew from the power sharing institutions here at stormont. the dup says it will continue to block the formation of a stormont