thousands of years. hello and welcome. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. former health secretary sajid javid says he will back mr sunak. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposition parties are calling for a general election. our deputy political editor vicki young has this report. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. once again, there is a vacancy at the top of government. liz truss resignation means the conservatives have to choose their fifth prime minister injust over six years. but can anyone unify a par
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wanted to see where it could go and absolutely hats off to her and super proud of her for putting herself out there. the gold was different, if i could only get on the plane to tokyo, and make it into the final, disappointing to come forth but she said they were so proud of what they had achieved even though they were not on the podium. yes. had achieved even though they were not on the podium. not on the podium. yes, she should be, her priorities not on the podium. yes, she should be, her priorities are not on the podium. yes, she should be, her priorities are so not on the podium. yes, she should be, her priorities are so different. be, her priorities are so different to what they were when we race together, 2012 and 2016, it was vastly different, all we did was rowing. now she has a family. the world are so different, the pandemic has thrown many things up in the air, notjust for helen but for both of them. their training was so different than 2016 respectively. it is amazing