spectrum this morning, and keeping you up to date with the very latest. and i ll be looking at the big challenges for a new chancellor. with rishi sunak out, will the prime minister try and spend his way out of the cost of living crisis? also this morning, police in the us have charged a man with seven counts of murder, after a gun attack at an independence day parade near chicago. good morning. it is said to be the biggest women s sporting event in european history. the euros begin at old trafford tonight, with england opening the tournament against austria. good morning. to date are going to be windy in the north. also some rain. further south, some cloud to start. sunny breaks will develop and it will feel pleasantly warm. details later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, july 6. welcome to breakfast. how did you sleep last night? rather better, i suspect, that the man who lives here. it s been a whirlwind 2a hours for the prime minister, who is fighting for po
competently and seriously. he also revealed tensions over next week s planned speech on the economy saying, it has become clear to me that our approaches are fundamentally too different. their exits along with various junior government figures came after borisjohnson apologised for appointing mp chris pincher as deputy chief whip in february, despite being aware of complaints about his inappropriate behaviour. i apologise for it. i think, in hindsight, it was the wrong thing to do. i apologise to everybody who has been badly affected by it. i just want to make absolutely clear that there is no place in this government for anybody who is predatory or who abuses their position of power. but mrjohnson s future is still uncertain. if he doesn t stand down, one backbench mp who is a member of the 1922 committee, said they ll potentially change party rules and hold another
small areas of cloud possibly on thursday, but also some sunny spells. more sunshine on friday, by which time we will see temperatures lift to 27 28 celsius, possibly even more than that over the weekend. that s it for now. but there s lots more on our website and social media. now though, it s back tojon and sally. bye for now. good morning, welcome to breakfast with me, jon kay, here in downing street, and sally nugent in the studio. our headlines today. a prime minister on the brink borisjohnson clings on, after two of his most senior ministers quit within ten minutes of each other. both rishi sunak and sajid javid attacked mrjohnson s leadership and integrity, but he remained defiant, appointing nadhim zahawi as chancellor and stephen barclay as health secretary.
nadhim zahawi is the new chancellor. several more resignations followed, mainly among junior ministers, and critics say it is now a question of when, rather than if, he will be forced out. borisjohnson will have to fill those jobs in the borisjohnson will have to fill thosejobs in the next borisjohnson will have to fill those jobs in the next few hours. his critics say it is a question of when rather than if he is going to be forced out. throughout the programme we ll speak to members from all sides of the house, to find out what happens next. but first, our political correspondent, david wallace lockhart, reports on mrjohnson s most serious leadership crisis so far. two influential cabinet ministers who decided they d had enough. within minutes of one another, rishi sunak resigned as chancellor, and sajid javid resigned as health secretary. mrjavid remained tight lipped when he returned home yesterday evening. i m just going to go and spend some time with my family. but the reasons we
suspected borisjohnson could have been out of here by the time the ten o clock news came around. that didn t happen. he dug in, he appointed, he replaced. now people say he could be here for the duration. let s look at the papers. they had a tough job putting together the front pages. not quite knowing what was going to happen in those late hours. johnson on the brink , is the headline on the front of the times today. it describes the cabinet resignations as a coordinated move that dealt a potentially fatal blow to the prime minister. the sun s headline reads, last chance saloon and the paper says mrjohnson is clinging on after the shock walkouts . the mail compares mrjohnson to a greased piglet , over his ability to escape seemingly impossible situations, and asks if he will be able to wriggle out of this .