hello and welcome. the former chancellor rishi sunak is poised to become the next prime minister here in the uk after borisjohnson withdrew from the race to succeed liz truss. mrjohnson said there was a very good chance he would have been successful, but he couldn t govern effectively without a united conservative party in parliament. our political editor chris mason has the latest. 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: the guaranteed support for him continues to up. what we can t do is have him in as prime minister to implode, taking down the whole government with him, and we just can t do that again. mr baker had backed the former home secretary suella braverman for the job in the summer. today, she backed rish
to focus on the job at hand, which is to try and go and win a world cup and try and perform to the best of your abilities. when you play for england the noise is just part and parcel of wearing the shirt, whether it is about your performances or the pressure of what comes with the team. when it comes the controversies of what is going on in qatar, and i suppose the issues that are at hand in this country and dealing with that, i think this particular team have always shown a lot of responsibility in stepping forward and i think gareth southgate deserves a lot of credit for that. so, i think the noises come prior to the world cup and probablyjust going into that first game i feel like now the players are just very focused on what s at hand and given the start they have had they have allowed a good chance to go and win it, but like i said, i still think it is very important that the conversation s had just at the right time and i think these players will continue do that. there seems to
into the new year. if the strikes go ahead, it s inevitable some patients will lose out. exactly how, we should find out in the coming weeks. jim reed, bbc news. prime minister, rishi sunak praised nhs nurses on a visit to a gp practice in darlington but added that the demands for a pay rise for nurses was unaffordable . i have enormous respect and gratitude to our nurses, as everyone does for the incredible job they do, and i know things are difficult right now for everyone because of what s happening with inflation, that s why our plans that we outlined last week will get a grip of inflation bring it down, that is really important, and in the meantime what the unions are asking for, i think, meantime what the unions are asking for, ithink, is meantime what the unions are asking for, i think, is a 19% pay rise, and i think most people watching will recognise that obviously unaffordable, that s why i m pleased that the health secretary is sitting down, talking to the union and hopeful
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