hello and welcome. the former chancellor rishi sunak is poised to become the next prime minister here in the uk after borisjohnson withdrew from the race to succeed liz truss. mrjohnson said there was a very good chance he would have been successful, but he couldn t govern effectively without a united conservative party in parliament. our political editor chris mason has the latest. are you running for the leadership, mr sunak? could september s loser be october s prime minister? rishi sunak is a step closer to downing street tonight, beaten by liz truss just weeks ago, he could replace her as soon as tomorrow. declaring his candidacy today, he wrote: he also felt the need to say: the guaranteed support for him continues to up. what we can t do is have him in as prime minister to implode, taking down the whole government with him, and we just can t do that again. mr baker had backed the former home secretary suella braverman for the job in the summer. today, she backed rish
she will be hoping the people of ramsbottom, as everywhere else, are behind her. judith moritz, bbc news. a small cross section of some of the opinion today in a marginal seat, which offers its own illustrations about public opinion. it has been quite variable today in terms of the weather and it has been raining and then pouring. and louise, yesterday, you did tell me we would have a tricky afternoon and there you go, you are right. it has been touch and go. the rain has been following both the outgoing and incoming prime minister. this was balmoral this morning with some of the rain to renshall and then another pulse of wet weather arrived into southern scotland during the afternoon and then we had dry weather in the north of england before more showers arrived and it really was touch and go in westminster, whether liz truss would be able to give her first speech as prime minister outside 10 downing street, because this was just half an hour before she gave her first speech
claiming that rishi sunak is set to become prime minister after tonight s events, but the paper s camilla tominey warns that the psychodrama of the last few weeks is not over. the daily mail are also running with the line that rishi sunak is set to become pm. the daily mirror says borisjohnson has become humiliated and rishi sunak will be the next unelected prime minister. the metro has claimed that boris has bottled it and so nak is on the brink of power unless boro supporters shift to penny mordaunt. the express describes rishi sunak as a new pm in waiting. and the sun simply says bojo it s a no , and that rishi sunak could be pm by tea time tomorrow. so let s begin. sunak are set to become prime minister, asjohnson pulls out. it has been an extraordinary week, and to think, camilla, it is only thursday afternoon that liz truss actually resigned, it feels like we have compressed many years of politics into the last 72 hours. yes, that s right, they say a day is a long ti
in relation to the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel in liverpool. one of the suspects was arrested on suspicion of murder. the conservative leadership favourite, liz truss, pledges immediate action on energy bills during herfirst week in office, if she becomes prime minister. ukrainian families close to europe s largest nuclear power plant say they re living in fear despite the arrival of un monitors. donald trump calls president biden an enemy of the state at his first rally since the fbi searched his florida resort for sensitive files. the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an american president. pope francis has beatified one of his predecessors, popejohn paul i, in a ceremony at the vatican. now on bbc news borisjohnson: departing downing street. looking back at boris johnson s time in no 10, from brexit to the coronavirus pandemic, partygate and the russian invasion of ukraine. a warning this programme contains flashing images. six
at 10pm, clive myrie will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, a look back at boris johnson s time in downing street in a special programme presented by michael cockerell. six weeks ago, a typhoon fighterjet took off from an raf base in lincolnshire. its co pilot just announced he was about to become britain s ex prime minister. after three happy years in the cockpit, and after performing some pretty difficult if not astonishing feats, i am now going to hand over the controls, seamlessly, to someone else. i don t know who. boris johnson believes in the great man theory of history, and he thinks he is that great man, like his hero, winston churchill. churchill, the guy made the most incredible series of mistakes, his early career was studded with disasters of one kind or another, but he always came back from them, and he always stuck by what he believed. applause whenjohnson became prime minister three years ago, churchill s grandson, sir nicholas soames,