announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and
hasn t got a shred of integrity. mr speaker, isn t this the first recorded case of the sinking ships fleeing the rat? this lunchtime, more conservative mps are signalling their unhappiness about the prime minister s leadership. what do voters think? i think lie after lie after lie. yeah, he s lost the confidence, so he s got to go, unfortunately. i d like to see boris carry on. i think he s done a decentjob. i know he s had a bit of problems. nadhim zahawi arrives at the treasury, replacing rishi sunak as chancellor. with inflation at a ito year high, we ll assess the challenges in his in tray. we ll have all the very latest from here in westminster. our other stories on the programme. dozens of arrests are made in an international police operation, targeting a people smuggling gang thought to have brought 10,000 migrants across the channel. it s kick off tonight for the women s european football championship. england is the host, and among the favourites to win. here at wimb
that there may be tax cuts, possibly, in the way, and one of my guests said that could give a sugar rush to some mps and voters and it might be a popular policy although whether that would keep a lid on rising inflation is debatable. let s focus on the action at westminster. we have had prime minister s questions in the last couple of hours and in one hour the prime minister will be facing a committee of senior mps, the liaison committee, so he hasn t returned here, he is staying in the houses of parliament before that committee meeting. borisjohnson says he is keeping on with the job despite a wave of government resignations which have continued today. we have seen a growing number of ministers resigning today with many expressing unhappiness at the prime minister s style of leadership and concerns that the work of the government is being overshadowed by questions about the prime minister s integrity. we can have a closer look at what has been happening. so far today we have
Campaigning, rishi sunak made it one of his stops on his Whistle Stop Tour of the uk and today, The Labour Leader keir starmer started off his day there. What did you make of what he was saying and what he was doing . Yes, and i think this is a signal, adam, of things to come, isnt it . Because theres been a lot of discussion about whether in this election, in particular the route to number ten might run through scotland, and in particular for sir keir, might run along the river clyde here in glasgow and the river clyde. In fact, that is it, isnt it . If youre watching, if youre not watching, theres a river behind me. Yeah, and what is why is that . Well, because about a decade ago, there was a big shift, a big, Big Shift In Support from labour to the snp. Labour for decades and decades would send dozens of mps from Scotland To Westminster at every election in the 2019 general election. How many mps did they return from scotland . One one. So keir starmer hopes to change that and there