convened her final cabinet meeting afterjust seven weeks in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore spoken to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. this is the easy bit, they will appreciate the transition from one prime minister to the other. after that, in tough road lies ahead with rising inflation, rising bills and rising inflation, rising bills and rising interest rates. we will bring you more throughout another momentous day in british politics. do stay with us on bbc news. it has been a period of immense instability in british politics, the transitions between two prime ministers in a matter of months. a busy summer, a long contest to decide who would become the leader of the conservative party, the ruling party in the uk at the moment. they have been in office first with coalition partn
if gas prices keep rising. fuelling controversy. opec slashes production to boost oil prices, sparking an angry reaction from president biden. plus too broke for beauty? women around the world say they are cutting back on cosmetics so how is the industry responding? we ll hear from a top entrepreneur. we start here in the uk, where as you ve been hearing, prime minister liz truss has been presenting her plans to boost the economy in her keynote speech to the conservative party conference in birmingham. she re stated her commitment to lowering taxes just two days after being forced to abandon a pledge to cut income tax for the highest earners. markets remain nervous about the outlook for the uk s finances under ms truss s government after the mini budget statement on september 23rd that sent the pound to a record low and borrowing costs soaring. but she argues the disruption will be worth it. whenever there is change, there is disruption. and not everybody will be in f
we really haven t got the detail. and i m geeta guru murthy in the studio our other headlines. the un security council hears calls for a security zone to shield ukraine s zaporizhzhia power plant, which is under russian control. reports say documents seized by fbi agents at donald trump s home include highly sensitive nuclear papers of a foreign power. welcome to the heart of british government where politicians hope to make the weather politically but they cannot do much about the weather we are experiencing at the moment. . , , , ., moment. excuse the sunshine and shadows. certainly, moment. excuse the sunshine and shadows. certainly, the moment. excuse the sunshine and shadows. certainly, the cabinet i shadows. certainly, the cabinet misses me in down the street a few minutes ago were in sunshine and the smiles which is entirely understandable, many of them around the cabinet table for the first time. the new politically office yesterday and begins to get her feet un
who had voted for liz truss policies. we will have reaction to the speech inside and outside the hall and we will be looking at the economic challenges ahead. also on the programme. schoolgirls have nowjoined the growing protest against the hardline laws restricting women s rights in iran. laws restricting women s rights in iran. . , ., , laws restricting women s rights in iran. , ., , ., iran. bad news, the dream is over. the club faces iran. bad news, the dream is over. the club faces going iran. bad news, the dream is over. the club faces going out iran. bad news, the dream is over. the club faces going out of - the club faces going out of business. and we meet the british woman behind some of the most successful hollywood movies. another day of and coming up on the bbc news channel, it takes erling haaland it takes erling haaland the less than seven minutes to score again for manchester city as they look to win three out of three in their champions league group.
get on touch with me on twitter. a man is due in court this morning charged with the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel. another man is charged with assisting an offender. the king and queen consort will undertake their firstjoint public engagements today since the end of the period of royal mourning for the queen. an investigation s underway after at least 125 were killed in a crush at a football match in indonesia one of the world s worst stadium disasters. no outright winner in the brazilian election left wing candidate luiz inacio lula da silva and right wingerjair bolsonaro will go to a second round run off. the man who makes his living from doodling talks to us. good morning. the government has this morning performed a huge turn and abandoned its plan to scrap the 45 pence top rate of income tax. the announcement from chancellor kwasi kwarteng came just a day after the prime minister liz truss backed the policy. in a statement, mr kwarteng said the