the british government has been plunged into fresh chaos after the resignation of its home secretary, suella braverman, and accusations by some members of the governing conservative party that they had been manhandled into supporting the government in a vote in parliament. in her resignation letter, ms braverman accused the prime minister liz truss of pretending there had been no mistakes and hoping everything would magically come right . later, two ministers in charge of party discipline were rumoured to have resigned, but it was later announced that they are to remain in post. here s the bbc s political editor chris mason. tonight at westminster, rolling case studies in chaos crises engulfing the government by the hour. the home secretary resigns. those at the highest level in government don t even know if others have followed her. at teatime, a man who was rebelling against liz truss just days ago was appointed by her as home secretary. i accept that the government has
or blamed on liz truss alone. it certainly hasn t helped and it is going to drag the rest of us down, so i think australia is looking on with sympathy, with empathy because we have been there before but also with some satisfaction that, as bad as it got here, i don t think it has ever been quite as bad or bizarre or as bold as you are seeing in the uk over the last five weeks, but the five years since brexit as well. charles crouch from nine news australia, their political editor. the former us president donald trump has testified in a defamation case brought against him by a prominent former american columnist who says he raped her in the 1990s. he denies the allegation. a little earlier, our north america correspondent, peter bowes told me what this case is about. ejean carroll is a long time columnist with elle magazine, and in a book in 2019, she claimed that she had been raped by donald trump in the changing room of a department store in new york city in the mid 1990s.