cheering thank you for putting your faith in me to thank you for putting your faith in me to lead thank you for putting your faith in me to lead our great conservative party liz truss will become prime minister tomorrow what s her answer to some major questions facing the uk? i will act immediately on bills and on energy supply. he ll have to leave number 10 first have we heard the last of him? he will be a great loss to politics, but hopefully it ll only be a temporary loss. and will prime minister truss be able to unite her party after all of this? £40 billion more borrowing. i that is the country s credit card, i it s on children and grandchildren. it has been a busy summer and a busy first day back. i m joined by gerard lyons, wes streeting, sebastien payne and isabel hardman. we ll bring you all the developments as they happen. first let s show you how the results looked. just over 57% to liz truss, just over, actuallyjust under 43% to rishi sunak. and let s l
after 12 years of a tory government, what have we got to show for it? people not being able to pay their bills, an nhs on its knees, and law and order completely broken down. and we ll be asking voters in peterborough for their take on yet another change at 10 downing street. she has got a lot of work ahead of her, and we really need her to prove to me what she will do to help keep the doors open on my business and the doors open on my business and the customer is in my local community. and coming up in sport later on the bbc news channel. cameron norrie is looking to extend his record run at the us open but can the british number one get past andrey rublev? good evening from number 10 downing street, which from tomorrow will be home to a new prime minister liz truss, who earlier today was elected leader of the conservative party to succeed borisjohnson. she will be the uk s fourth prime minister in the space of six years. ms truss, who s been foreign secretary for the pa
female prime minister, promising to deliver on pledges. i will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy. because, my friends, i know that we will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver. as the cost of living hits crisis levels, with fuel bills breaking new records, labour says the conservatives are out of ideas, regardless of who s prime minister. after 12 years of a tory government, what have we got to show for it? people not being able to pay their bills, an nhs on its knees, and law and order completely broken down. tomorrow downing street will host two prime ministers. borisjohnson in the morning, liz truss in the afternoon. and we ll be asking what kind of prime minister liz truss is likely to be and what kind of government she will lead. also tonight. in canada police are searching for two men suspected of killing ten people in a remote northern area. and the duke and duchess of sussex are back in the uk, where meghan has been addressing a leadership sum
But in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, the dinner seems like a piece of the worst of the 1980s or 50s even crashing into the modern era. Is this the night that unreconstructed attitudes in the city and at the top level of business are exposed . Our business editor, helen thomas, reports. A 5 star london location. The guest list scattered with big names and big wallets. And innocuous billing, the president s club charity dinner. This was a Charity Auction like no other. Last week, according to the financial times, 360 men from British Business, politics and finance came to a black tie event here. 360 men but no women except they were joined by 130 hostesses. Young women, reportedly chosen for their looks, who are given short, tight dresses to wear. The women, who were paid £150, were paraded in and distributed around the table. Later in the evening, the paper says, hostesses according to the charitable trusts last set of accounts for 2016, ll; flllillll xl l 2 22; and it
Collapsing in england and wales because of mistakes with sharing evidence. 20 years after dolly the sheep, scientists clone monkeys in china. It raises ethical questions about the experiment. The former labour minister Dame Tessa Jowell talks for the first time about her aggressive brain tumour and the way cancer is treated in this country. I am not afraid. I feel very clear about my sense of purpose. Its 5 oclock. Our main story one of the organisers of a Charity Dinner where women were reported to have been groped, propositioned and sexually harassed has stepped down from the department for education. The businessman, david meller, was a non executive board member at the department. Mr meller has also resigned as a trustee of the mayors fund for london. Undercover journalists from the Financial Times say they were harassed and propositioned at the president s club annual Charity Fundraiser in london last week. The organisers of the men only dinner have said theyre appalled by the all