no matter what policies we have in place or what leadership, there s not a huge amount the government can do to make things better. i suppose the argument with liz truss is she and her mini budget and all her policies that came out of nowhere actually made things worse. things haven t. i suppose that does go some way to show that it is policies that can make a difference in the markets will fall in line if they think there is greater political and economic stability. so, whether rishi sunak or possibly penny mourdant, whoever wins, is able to enhance that stability, i think that remains to be seen. but what we do know about rishi sunak is that his whole economic vision and ideology is completely different from that of liz truss from the start. so we are ready know quite a bit about the vision that he ll be implementing. and we ve gotjeremy hunt, who did a lot of that unwinding. just quickly, boris, not this time. what struck me was that boris johnson said he thinks he would b
after being given a third term as leader of the communist party. hello and welcome to bbc world news. the uk is tonight guaranteed to have its third new prime minister in three months after borisjohnson declared, in the last hour, that he will not run, despite claiming to have had enough mps nominating him. it leaves the way clear for the former chancellor rishi sunak who today formally entered the contest, and who is presently the clear frontrunner. he joins the leader of the commons penny mourdant in the race. borisjohnson has released a statement after saying he won t stand. and he ends his statement saying . our political correspondent damian grammaticas has been speaking to my collague david eades. dramatic one that has been speculated about. people talking about the idea that borisjohnson might be reluctant to go forward with this unless he was very clear that he would be in a commanding position in what has become absolutely obvious over the weekend is that he s not. r
escalating war against dirty bomb claims. can you expand on what backline is? backline is? yes, this is a really aood backline is? yes, this is a really good reminder backline is? yes, this is a really good reminder that backline is? yes, this is a really good reminder that actually - backline is? yes, this is a really - good reminder that actually outside of the so opera of british politics, there are actually much bigger things going on elsewhere in the world, so this story is about britain and the us issuing a warning to russia about escalating the war in ukraine so today we had a situation where russia did this quite unusual call with western officials, claiming that ukraine was planning to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb and these are quite extraordinary claims which were immediately rebuffed by ukraine which said we are planning nothing of the sort and if anything this is a head that russia is planning to do it, and these claims sparked fears of a false flag oper
With the ouster of Suella Braverman and induction of former UK PM David Cameron, Rishi Sunak’s cabinet is now a combination of those who saw Boris Johnson’s presence as PM as highly toxic to Brand Tory, avid Remainers during the Brexit referendum like Cameron, and Brexiteers.