fears grow for a female iranian athlete who competed in a climbing competition without wearing a hijab her family say they ve good afternoon and welcome to bbc news, live from westminster. the prime minister will be meeting more backbenchers as she continues to try to shore up her leadership, a series of difficult headlines this morning following yesterday, following that interview as well, with our political editor chris mason in which she apologised for issues since she became prime ministerjust 41 days ago, earlier on today, it was business as usual, almost, with a cab neating, she and cabinet meeting, she and the new chancellor speaking at that meeting and the chancellor was setting out his plan, his thoughts on spending cuts which he said were on the way, he said that departments should agree those spending cuts by the end oaf week so a tight timetable there, and, they were meeting of course after he tore up most of that mini budget, the liz truss economic policy, t
had written a book about ten years ago this idea, now she is lockstep withjeremy hunt, the contradiction between those two are very difficult and keir starmer will certainly ask about that. i think your starmer needs to bring it back and so does liz truss, actually, maybe this is her secret weapon, liz truss, actually, maybe this is hersecret weapon, dipping liz truss, actually, maybe this is her secret weapon, dipping back to real people in the country who are not worried about faceless and nameless conservative mps most of whom they couldn t identify in a police line up and the backstabbing of liz truss and really the question about energy bills and the fact that there is some certainty for six months but there won t be for two years. that is the u turn i would worry most about if i was liz truss because that is what affects most people in this country rather than the entire imaginations of westminster which can be entertaining. in prime ministers question time as part of that most p