that s only a third of the conservative party in parliament. reaction to the chancellor s budget plan could determine the prime minister s fate. some tory mps believe her time is up but allies says she can ride this crisis out despite the turmoil lapping at downing street s door. ben wright, bbc news. there have been more anti government protests in iran, with demonstrators at tehran university shouting slogans about the events at evin prison on saturday. the authorities have acknowledged four people were killed in the fire that broke out there. i asked our news reporter azadeh moshiri what iran s state media has been reporting about the incident. they are being very careful about what they do release, because, of course, there is a concern for them that this information and the events of last night could trickle down to protesters and further inflame the protests that have been going on. now, what we do know in terms
crisis out despite the turmoil lapping at downing street s door. ben wright, bbc news. we re a few hours away now from the start of a new week of trading on the international markets, but what are the numbers around the possible changes to the mini budget? our business correspondent marc ashdown has been looking at them. marc. yes, some difficult decisions ahead, i have to say. a lot of the mini budget has already been unpicked. the top rate of tax stays, and corporation tax will go up after all. but it s thoughtjeremy hunt still needs to find around £25 billion, money the last chancellor planned to give away in tax cuts. so what are the options? well, we re hearing he may delay the plan for a 1p cut in basic income tax. unconfirmed at the moment. but putting that off for a year would save £5 billion. but that would still leave around £20 billion to plug. it s hard to see how that can be found without tough cuts in spending. big departments like health, education and defence are nor
like libertarianjihadists and treated the whole country as kind of laboratory mice in which to carry out ultra, ultra free market experiments. watching on, the leader of the uk s closest ally, who may have chilled relations with number 10 with this highly unusual bite of commentary. the idea of cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when. anyway, ijust think. i disagree with the policy, but that s up to great britain to make thatjudgement, not me. reaction to the chancellor s budget plan could determine the prime minister s fate. some tory mps believe her time is up, but allies say she can ride this crisis out despite the turmoil lapping at downing street s door. ben wright, bbc news. i m joined now by the head of the chatham house thinktank, bronwen maddox.
and i think liz truss, as i see it, is in office but is not in power. over the past few weeks, the government has looked like libertarianjihadists and treated the whole country as kind of laboratory mice in which to carry out ultra, ultra free market experiments. watching on, the leader of the uk s closest ally, who may have chilled relations with number 10 with this highly unusual bite of commentary. the idea of cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when. anyway, ijust think. i disagree with the policy, but that s up to great britain to make thatjudgement, not me. reaction to the chancellor s budget plan could determine the prime minister s fate. some tory mps believe her time is up, but allies say she can ride this crisis out despite the turmoil lapping at downing street s door. ben wright, bbc news.
is up, but allies say she can ride this crisis out despite the turmoil lapping at downing street s door. ben wright, bbc news. we re a few hours away from the start of a new week of trading on the international markets which could give some clue as to whether the new chancellor s words today have soothed market nerves. earlier we heard from tim bale who s politics professor at queen mary university in london. he says if the markets are noit heading in a positive direction for the uk, the pressure on liz truss will almost become too much for downing street to bear. i think her leadership is in the balance, the markets and what happens to them on monday is important, if they have not been reassured byjeremy hunt being appointed and by some of the u turns he has signalled, i think she is in a whole heap of trouble, she is in trouble anyway because her mps are looking at those terrible opinion poll results we have had recently, and quite honestly they know they can t win an election unde