in beijing, the chinese communist party congress continues but some parts of the city go under a covid lockdown. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. britain is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the governing conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job by far the shortest tenure in british history. following growing calls from within her own party to go, she said she could not deliver the tax cuts she d promised, and which had largely been abandoned. we start tonight with our political editor chris mason in downing street. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister, she was back too this time to resign. i came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. families and busi
of repairing the damage. also in the programme. in beijing the chinese communist party congress continues but some parts of the city are back under a covid lockdown. and, a jury in new york clears the actor, kevin spacey, of making unwanted sexual advances on a iii year old. hello and welcome to the programme. britain is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job by far the shortest tenure in british history. her leadership foundered when the markets took fright, the pound crashed, she sacked her chancellor kwasi kwarteng and was forced into a humiliating series of u turns. we start our coverage with the bbc s political editor chris mason. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister,
2022, the year of three prime ministers, at least. after an astonishing decade in british politics, another unprecedented moment. is politics, another unprecedented moment. , , ., moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions - moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions of - voters for there s impressions of the latest events at westminster. itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. i wouldn t vote conservative now, no. why not? because i don t feel we can trust them. the likely candidates include some very familiar faces, but labour says yet another change of prime minister should trigger a general election. the public are entitled to have their say, and that s why there should be a general election. we ll have all the news and analysis of the prime minister s resignation. also on this extended edition of bbc news at ten. people who work with chil
through prime ministers, we re burning through chancellors, we re burning to home secretaries. and that gives it an element of soap opera, but it isn tjust a soap opera and this is, you know, for many people who are facing higher prices, higher mortgages, this is real damage that s being inflicted on them. i really don t think another revolving door of chaos, another experiment at the top of the tory party, is the way out of this. what needs to happen now? on a uk level there must be a general election, . it is a democratic necessity. the idea the tories can unite behind a prime minister now, any prime minister, let alone one that is for the birds. the tories have shown they are incapable of providing the leadership, they are not fit to govern our country and we don t need another conservative prime minister. they need to go, we need another general election and conservative mps have got to do that patriotically duty and vote for that.
fit to govern our country and we don t need another conservative prime minister. they need to go, we need another general election and conservative mps have got to do that patriotically duty and vote for that. how did all of this happen? the era of liz truss is far too short to even deserve that word. this was her arriving as prime minister last month. the chancellor! thank you, thank you. in short, nearly her entire programme for government imploded on contact with reality. mr speaker, we re at the beginning of a new era, and as we contemplate. shouting. that s right, a new era. mini budget, maxi disaster, as her colleagues called this privately. the markets tanked. so did her poll ratings. and her mps lost faith almost instantly. the other night i asked her. will you lead the conservatives at the next general election? i will lead to the conservatives into the next general election. definitely?