good morning. it s thursday october 20th. our main story. the prime minister s position is looking increasingly vulnerable today after some of her own mps called for her to resign. it followed a chaotic day for the government with the resignation of the home secretary, accusations of bullying, and confusion over whether the chief whip had resigned. our political correspondent ione wells reports. reporter: is this a coalition of chaos, mr schapps? - another day, another new cabinet minister. grant shapps, sacked just six weeks ago by liz truss, returns as her new home secretary. look, obviously it s been a turbulent time for the government, but i think the most important thing is to make sure that people in this country know that they ve got security and that s why it s a great honour to be appointed as home secretary. he stepped up after suella braverman stepped down, resigning over two data breaches. but have a look at her resignation letter. she wrote to the prime minister
parts of nova scotia in the coming days so we will hear more about the storm system. first we have cloud across the north west of uk moving into scotland and threatening outbreaks of rain but away from the north west for most it is a fine afternoon with variable cloud and sunny spells. the best of the sunshine in southern england, southern wales and parts of eastern scotland. the cloud melting away into the evening with a bit more sunshine ending the day. temperatures up to the high 20s so feeling pleasantly warm. 0vernight tonight a band of rain is slow moving and will take two days to cross the uk. it moves into scotland and northern ireland bringing heavy rain overnight and eventually it starts to move into cumbria. pretty mild, 1a or 15 degrees in the north west. england and wales time, 12 degrees. 0n and wales time, 12 degrees. on thursday the weather front moves into england and wales with heavy rain for a into england and wales with heavy rainfora time into england and
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. an independent think tank in britain says the uk government s mini budget is likely to leave the vast majority of taxpayers worse off. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s package of measures include scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and reducing the basic rate by a penny. the institute for fiscal studies says that only those with incomes of more than 155,000 will be net beneficiaries over the current parliament. ben king reports. here in reading and around the uk, people feel like they could do with a boost. bills are going up and interest rates are rising. across the country as a whole, the economy has been growing too slowly. and the chancellor has come up with a very bold solution tax cuts worth billions of pounds. he plans to cut the basic rate of income tax to 19p and the pound in england, wales and northern ireland next april and abolish the 45p top rate of tack for people ear