can t answer the question, who will be our prime minister in a fortnight? tonight, we have one of the those moments, yet again. 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 to resign. i came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.
have you ever known life like this in salford? never, ever, ever, and it s getting harder and harder. j in 45 days, liz truss, what s she done for your life? nothing, nothing, nothing at all. what has she done? i would really like the government to come into one of these and livej the day as life for a day - as a normal person, to have to decide whether they want i to buy food or they want to go and get something, a necessity, whether it be a shoe, coats, washing powder. cold, isn t it? it is, it s freezing. next door, reverend michaela just wants the basics. not only create a warm welcome but a warm space, hot meals, room. she s been here for 15 months and says life is getting worse. when you ve got the text, or the bbc news alert saying liz truss was going, what did you think? i think itjust stirs up more uncertainty and i think that s what we ve seen over the past 45 days, it s just uncertainty
what an extraordinary moment. just three and a half months since borisjohnson stood at that lectern and resigned himself, now his successor has done just the same. the chaos deepens. enter, then, this man, sir graham brady, who the prime minister mentioned, who will oversee the race to replace liz truss. what s he got to say? good afternoon, everybody. there s not a great deal i can say at the moment. i have spoken to the party chairman, jake berry, and he has confirmed that it will be possible to conduct a ballot and conclude a leadership election by friday the 28th of october. do you accept that this is a complete dog s dinner? it s certainly not a circumstance that i would wish to see. so what do the other parties make of it? the conservatives rivals say it s time for a general election. cor, blimey, another opponent for you to face. what do you make of it? well, it is another opponent, and, you know, we re burning