we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
to pay stamp duty. i found that out this morning. that s good. it s a trickle down budget. sometime in the future, we may see a benefit, if all goes well. but the poor need help right now. in nother news, four russian occupied areas of ukraine are staging referendums on whether to become part of russia. western governments call them a sham. the first woman to win the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantel, has died at the age of 70. hello. in a massive shake up of the uk s finances, the chancellor kwasi kwarteng has outlined a series of tax cuts and spending commitments that will cost £45 billion by 2027. the independent institute for fiscal studies has described the announcements as the biggest tax cutting budget in 50 years. the government says its policies will help boost economic growth yesterday the bank of england warned the uk may already be in recession. but critics say funding the tax cuts will lead to unsustainable borrowing. the chancellor an
The Charity World central kitchen says their convoy was bombed in an israeli Air Strikejust after theyd unloaded food aid, at a warehouse they are now suspending its operations in gaza. At a warehouse. They are now suspending its operations in gaza. The Israeli Military says its conducting a review into the incident. The seven workers are from australia, the uk, poland, a us canadian dual citizen, as well as a palestinian. World leaders and Foreign Ministers are pressing israel to clarify the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Bbc verify has been analysing footage from the aftermath of the incident. Heres merlyn thomas. Weve been trying to piece together what happened by examining photos of the aftermath, like this one. So far among the confirmed dead are australian, polish, british and palestinians, along with a dual us canadian citizen. They were working for Food Aid Charity, World Central Kitchen. It says they dropped off more than 100 tonnes of Food Supplies at a warehouse in
Manchester derby fa cup final. The brazilian was forced off with an eye injury during citys 2 0 win at tottenham on tuesday that left pep guardiolas side on the brink of their fourth consecutive title. Scans have confirmed ederson suffered a small fracture to his right eye socket following a collision with cristian romero. They play west ham on sunday. On saturday night in riyadh, well witness one of the biggest heavyweight fights for decades as tyson fury and Oleksander Usyk vie to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Lennox lewis was the last man to achieve that, and hes been chatting to our reporter ade adedoyin about how he sees the fight going. Tyson fury looked bad in the fight and i think he realised that himself. What he did was really focus. I would himself. What he did was really focus. I would keep himself. What he did was really focus. I would keep usyk himself. What he did was really focus. I would keep usyk on himself. What he did was really| focus. I
You say on the telly, we might not have any mps left if rishi sunak doesnt Change Course. And if youre paul scully, whos another former minister who was also on our programme, you say, its all looking pretty terrible and the party needs to take a breath, show some humility and stick to the centre. So its not a very pretty set of realities, but there are differing realities, but not a very pretty set of realities for rishi sunak today. So i offerfrom radio 4 land today Gavin Barwell, who was theresa mays adviser. Now, of course, she saw a chance to go for an election and was then humbled by it, was then replaced as Prime Minister. He said the conservatives are on course for a defeat, possibly a huge one. But he said keir starmer is not loved, hasnt necessarily got the blair power. Henry, whats your verdict now that all the results are in, bar the couple of police and Crime Commissioners . Its a terrible set of results for the Conservative Party. I think thats really, really clear. Mark