less than 2a hours after kwasi kwarteng insisted he was 100% safe in his job as chancellor he has gone sacked by liz truss after he flew back early from washington for crisis talks. 3 weeks of turmoil on the financial markets has culminated in the prime minister announceing a second major u turn on her economic plans for growth corporation tax will now rise in april after all. she has sacked the chancellor and named a new one jeremy hunt the 4th this year. at a very short press conference this afternoon liz truss was repeatedly asked about her credibility as prime minister and why she was remaining in the job. let s take a listen to what she had to say. my my conviction to this country needs to go for growth and is rooted in my personal experience. i know what it s like to grow up somewhere that isn t feeling the benefits of growth and i so what that meant and i m not prepared to accept that for our country. i want a country where people can get good jobs and new bu
claiming that rishi sunak is set to become prime minister after tonight s events, but the paper s camilla tominey warns that the psychodrama of the last few weeks is not over. the daily mail are also running with the line that rishi sunak is set to become pm. the daily mirror says borisjohnson has become humiliated and rishi sunak will be the next unelected prime minister. the metro has claimed that boris has bottled it and so nak is on the brink of power unless boro supporters shift to penny mordaunt. the express describes rishi sunak as a new pm in waiting. and the sun simply says bojo it s a no , and that rishi sunak could be pm by tea time tomorrow. so let s begin. sunak are set to become prime minister, asjohnson pulls out. it has been an extraordinary week, and to think, camilla, it is only thursday afternoon that liz truss actually resigned, it feels like we have compressed many years of politics into the last 72 hours. yes, that s right, they say a day is a long ti
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hundreds of thousands of students received their exam results on thursday, allowing them to sort out their university places. but some btec students are still waiting to see how they did in vocational courses. exam board pearson won t reveal how many are affected but says it s a small percentage. the association of colleges isn t impressed. pearson won t tell us the numbers, but i know in some colleges there are several hundred students who haven t got their results from pearson. in any normal year there is a handful, perhaps, in a college. but hundreds is unprecedented. so we absolutely need pearson to openly investigate what went wrong, publish the findings and make sure this doesn t happen again. in a statement, pearson said: another exam board, ocr, is also apologising for delays in issuing cambridge technical s results, a vocational qualification with an emphasis on workplace skills. it says it has delivered more than 1,000 results in the last 2a hours. among those waiti