with the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel. she was shot in her home in liverpool in august. king charles and the queen consort camilla visited dunfermline on their first official engagment since the period of royal mourning came to an end. and coming up we meet mr doodle the man from kent who makes his living from doodling and has covered his whole house in drawings. hello, if you havejustjoined us welcome to bbc news. just to remind you we will have live coverage of the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s speech to the conservative party conference later. he has been forced into a dramatic u turn to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax. the decision to ditch the policy a decision which mr kwarteng confirmed this morning came less than 2a hours after the prime minister liz truss had publicly defended it. in a statement, mr kwarteng said the 45p tax plan had become a huge distraction and that the government had listened to people s concerns. yesterday on the bbc,
for example, that essentially meant that the average household bill for energy will be £2500. the move has been welcomed by some tory mps. we have a plan for growth and it s going ahead. if you re borrowing money to cut taxes for people - who are already better off, - then the public, who for example, one constituent said, - i m taking on extra shifts because mortgage rates- are going up because inflation has to be fought but also - because you are borrowing money to be fought but also because you are - in order to run these tax cuts and that is a combination - borrowing money in order to fund these tax cuts and that is a - that doesn t work. combination that doesn t work. hopefully, moving on from the 45p rate conversation allows you to get back into the growth and funding public services and what it s all meant to be about. i think it s the correct decision. have been talking about over the last week or so, which is the tens of billions of pounds the government is spending to suppor
the people who wanted the u turn, the one good thing they thought she had, which was that she was persistent, ideological and that she herself said she was willing to be a popular, that has now gone, as well. they see that really this is probably just the first step in a series of potential u turns the government might be forced to make on the mini budget and over the next two months and longer in regards to the medium growth. i two months and longer in regards to the medium growth. two months and longer in regards to the medium growth. i don t know. i was raising the medium growth. i don t know. i was raising this the medium growth. i don t know. i was raising this question the medium growth. i don t know. i was raising this question earlier, - the medium growth. i don t know. i was raising this question earlier, i i was raising this question earlier, i don t know if you have had any luck getting to the bottom of this. has anyone in government been able to explain to you why if
other structural measures that makes a mean reduction in public spending? the new liz truss government was under huge pressure to do something drastic, radical, to prevent it essentially falling into electoral decline and being punished, come the next election. and so there was this bid for growth which seemed to go slightly too far. not necessarily on the economic side. most politicians you speak to today are reallyjust saying that the economic arguments stack up. actually it is about the political optics, something liz truss has brushed aside before, but that you can t ignore in the face of, as chris was talking about before, the polling we have seen showing how unpopular some of the measures in the mini budget are and how unpopular the party is. don t forget that the first thing conservative mps care about is their seats and i think it is quite telling that the scale of unrest hasn t yet been completely quelled. you have people like the conservative tees valley mayor who said that t
embarking on a huge programme of tax cuts and economic measures which many tory members do not like. there are many battles ahead, we are hearing an inkling of that already yesterday liz truss refusing to confirm that benefits would lot rise in line with inflation for instance. that would be a real terms cut in the incomes of people receiving benefits, and tory mp estimate vague, formal work and pensions secretary, saying that would be a disaster. you can see the sense of the political disagreements to come, a lot more tussles in the weeks and months to come as liz truss and the government will set out further measures that they say will similar growth. measures that they say will similar urowth. ., , ., , , growth. that is really interesting. perha -s growth. that is really interesting. perhaps the growth. that is really interesting. perhaps the views growth. that is really interesting. perhaps the views of growth. that is really interesting. perhaps the views of somebody i grow