Less than 2a hours after Kwasi Kwarteng insisted he was 100 safe in his job as chancellor he has gone sacked by liz truss after he flew back early from washington for crisis talks. 3 weeks of turmoil on the Financial Markets has culminated in the Prime Minister Announceing A Second Major u turn on her economic plans for Growth Corporation tax will now rise in april after all. She has sacked the chancellor and named a new one jeremy hunt the 4th this year. At a very short Press Conference this Afternoon Liz Truss was repeatedly asked about her credibility as Prime Minister and why she was remaining in the job. Lets take a listen to what she had to say. My my conviction to this country needs to go for growth and is rooted in my personal experience. I know what its like to grow up somewhere that isnt feeling the benefits of growth and i so what that meant and im not prepared to accept that for our country. I want a country where people can get good jobs and new businesses can set up in fa
but with a bang we have halloween ends. does it, though?! we have a new version of all quiet on the western front. emily, inspired by the life of emily bronte. that makes me livid. and for the king crimson fans, in the court of the crimson king. yeah, it s quite a striking mix you got for us. it is, so let s start with halloween ends. please, please, please let this be over! so, a few years ago, david gordon green and jamie lee curtis did something interesting with the halloween franchise, they updated halloween with added ptsd hooray, something interesting! and then they spoilt it all by saying it is a trilogy, so then we had halloween kills, which is just back to the usual stuff, plod, plod, plod, plod, stabby, stabby, plod, plod. now, halloween ends which has a usual plodding stabby stuff, but with some added nietzschen about you look long into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you. and some nonsense about it takes a village to raise a child and maybe evil is bei
evil is being passed on. here s a clip! alison is not equipped for this relationship and i will not let her get hurt, so stay away. you started this! you brought me in, you invited me! but you re the one to blame. if i can t have her, no one will. you want to help alison? let her live her life. she has me now. now, on the positive side, it s got an interesting opening seven minutes. there is a bit at the beginning when i went, this is great, a thing happened, i hadn t expected that, great, and then it s. oh, no, it s that film again. and remember, with the first halloween, good, very cheap movie, it was all to do with tension and suspense and building on that stuff and some genuinely scary moments. here no tension, no suspense, no scary moments, no shocks, no surprises. compare this to, for example, smile, which is currently doing terrifically well at the box office, which is a kind of quiet, quiet, bang horror movie, but it does it well. this just feels like patience testi
gentlemen. quick look at the front pages. we will start with the mail. it leads on speculation mps will move to topple liz truss this week. meanwhile, the metro details three separate plots to oust her. the mirror is rather more blunt, saying tory mps want truss to just quit now . the independent says senior tory figures are telling her the game is up . the guardian echoes this sentiment but suggests truss will try to fight on. it might be too late, though the times suggests the party is looking to crown a new leader already. the express, meanwhile, focuses on the economic backdrop to all this, asking if her latest u turn will be enough to turn things around. and there we go, that s the times, we have caught up. and amid all this, a plea for unity by former leadership rival penny mordaunt on the front of the telegraph. let us begin our chat, sebastian and merchant. lovely to have you both with us again. sebastian, it is your round, this one. we are going to start off wi