all of the front pages were probably out of date by the time we received them. they re still warm up the printer. camilla and tony, just give me an overview of what we ve been through in the last week in british politics. i in the last week in british olitics. ~ ., in the last week in british olitics. ~ ., ., , ., , , politics. i think more has happened in the last week politics. i think more has happened in the last week than politics. i think more has happened in the last week than would - in the last week than would normally happen over a period of months or years. it feels like it s been such a roller coaster. we had the resignation of liz truss as prime minister only the last few days, saying she wasn t able to deliver the mandate on which she was elected, so she spoken to his majesty the king and handed in her resignation and said she ll stay as prime minister until such a time as prime minister until such a time a new prime minister is in place. we then heard from
support for the governing liberal democratic party, of which mr abe was the leading statesman. the uk chancellor nadhim zahawi has added his name to the conservative leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt. the current favourite is the former chancellor rishi sunak, who resigned from his post on tuesday. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belonging to the natural party of government. this week, it s looked more like the natural party of farce. two cabinet ministers announced publicly that they d had enough of boris johnson. mrjohnson had not had enough of himself and for 48 hours, he dug in his heels, refusing to resign as prime minister, even as, one after another,
dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belonging to the natural party of government. this week, it s looked more like the natural party of farce. two cabinet ministers announced publicly that they d had enough of boris johnson. mrjohnson had not had enough of himself and for 48 hours, he dug in his heels, refusing to resign as prime minister, even as, one after another, members of his government resigned. in all, five cabinet level and 23 junior ministers quit because he wouldn t, along with a couple of dozen parliamentary aides. on wednesday evening, the prime minister sacked one of his oldest allies who d told him to go. another, who d accepted promotion from him just the night before, then deserted his cause too. mrjohnson insisted the voters had given him a mandat
bid tomorrow too. it says the pair will fight it out to be the candidate to take on rishi sunak. meanwhile, the mail claims sunak the former chancellor has been forced to deny links to the former number 10 adviser dominic cummings. the express concentrates on sunak s successor as chancellor, nadhim zahawi. they quote him as saying he s being smeared over tax . the ft says senior conservative party figures are planning to thin out the field of leadership candidates rapidly, to stop the campaign becoming ugly. the guardian says the tory rivals as scrambling to get enough supporters to stay in the contest; the mirror leads with something completely different the crisis over ambulance crews being stuck outside a&es, while the daily star is all about the heatwave, claiming britain will be hotter than hawaii tomorrow. asi as i say, welcome back to both. we will start with the guardian s front page that tory rivals are scrambling for support is because the all important 1922