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with another new leader named by next friday. disbelief across the uk as downing street implodes in the middle of a soaring cost of living crisis. it just needs itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. because the rest of the country is in turmoil, isn t it? because the rest of the country is in turmoil, isn t it? breaking news out of the united in turmoil, isn t it? breaking news out of the united kingdom. - in turmoil, isn t it? breaking news| out of the united kingdom. after less than out of the united kingdom. after less than two months on the job. how much damage is all this political chaos doing to the uk s and coming up on the bbc news channel. for continuing coverage and analysis from a team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. liz truss has resigned after 44 days in office. she is now the shortest serving prime minister in british history. just 2a hours after she told mps defiantly that she was a fighter not a
i believe that point is now. will you be prime minister tomorrow? of course. more westminster hostility from senior mps this afternoon, but through it all the prime minister insists he s here to stay. frankly, mr speaker, the job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances when he has being handed a colossal mandate is to keep going and that s what i m going to do. tonight at the end appears night for borisjohnson, it feels like a question of when, not if he will go. political turmoil in westminster and we will have the latest in a fast moving story. on here, what voters think about all. also tonight. a ukranian mother picks through the remnants of her beloved son s life our special report on russian atrocities and a war crimes investigation. the lionesses training at old trafford. in less than two hours, they ll be on the pitch for real. the women s euros get under way today. stay with us. stay with us for our continuing coverage of the news from our correspondence arou
we re talking triple digits and it will last right through the better part of the weekend. that is wild. derek, thank you. thanks so much for joining us. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is thursday, june 9th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we begin with the price of gas, closer than ever to the dreaded $5 a gallon mark. the national average for a gallon of regular gas hitting $4797 up nearly 2 cents overnight and this is the 13th straight day of record highs for the gas prices, it s the 30th in the last 31 days, the surge hitting americans right where they live and drive. so it is worth noting that when you adjust for inflation prices are not at record highs, not yet, but they do keep rising with no real end in sight. this is what president biden said about soaring gas prices during his appearance on jimmy kimmel overnight. look, inflation is is the is the bain of our existe