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are on, so let s get started. time now to focus on the top business stories. i m sally bundock and we begin in turkey where, as you ve been hearing, most ballots are counted in this crucial general election and there does not appear to be a clear winner. official figures indicate that president recep tayyip erdogan has fallen short of of the crucial 50% of the vote. his secular opposition rival, kemal kilicdaroglu, is on around 45%, with a run off contest in two weeks time looking likely. turkey has been grappling with a cost of living crisis with inflation running at 44%, a key factor in turkish sentiment right now. let s talk to our reporter in ankara victoria craig who has spent much of the night at the headquarters of mr kilicdaroglu. good to see you. first of all, talk us through the feeling, the sentiment among those who are supporting the opposition. it was very, very long night for anyone who was keeping track of what was happening in turkey. i didn t get ....
abhorrent and had previously been unaware of the claims. we can speak now to laurie at the international communications and financial world affairs commentator. she s in west london for us this evening. good to see you. a rather strange statement, suspending key activities can i suppose you have to understand what the cbi does to make sense of that. maybe you could explain it to les. the cbi is really one of the bigger lobbying groups that polices between business and government. cbi has had a bit of a reputational hit, even before all of these allegations. we will get to those in a moment. a lot of people were wondering whether the cbi had become, had lost its effectiveness, given the last governments attitude towards business. rehabilitated itself a little bit, couple of the things that cbi had been looking for, like childcare provisions did make it into the last budget, but that seems a different era now. so many company picnic companies have deserted the cbi the las ....
history for all the wrong reasons. the shortest serving prime minister in british history. but what are the rest of us to make of it? we need a general election now. there must be a general election. we need another general election. what is going on? he will be running. she is running. and he has come back from the caribbean claiming he has the backing to have a go. we have one big question this morning can any of them get a grip? this morning, we rejoined live in the studio by one of the three contenders we invited on. penny mordaunt is here. and the man leading the call for a general election now, labour leader sir keir starmer. and a man who has been on a journey from deputy prime minister to borisjohnson to now supporting rishi sunak, dominic raab. jacob rees mogg, who is a boris johnson evangelist. and away from british politics, i ve been talking to ukraine s defence minister, oleksii reznikov. with me listening to all the pitches this morning is former governor of ....