with another new leader named by next friday. disbelief across the uk as downing street implodes in the middle of a soaring cost of living crisis. it just needs itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. because the rest of the country is in turmoil, isn t it? because the rest of the country is in turmoil, isn t it? breaking news out of the united in turmoil, isn t it? breaking news out of the united kingdom. - in turmoil, isn t it? breaking news| out of the united kingdom. after less than out of the united kingdom. after less than two months on the job. how much damage is all this political chaos doing to the uk s and coming up on the bbc news channel. for continuing coverage and analysis from a team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. liz truss has resigned after 44 days in office. she is now the shortest serving prime minister in british history. just 2a hours after she told mps defiantly that she was a fighter not a
in beijing, the chinese communist party congress continues but some parts of the city go under a covid lockdown. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. britain is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the governing conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job by far the shortest tenure in british history. following growing calls from within her own party to go, she said she could not deliver the tax cuts she d promised, and which had largely been abandoned. we start tonight with our political editor chris mason in downing street. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister, she was back too this time to resign. i came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. families and busi
2022, the year of three prime ministers, at least. after an astonishing decade in british politics, another unprecedented moment. is politics, another unprecedented moment. , , ., moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions - moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions of - voters for there s impressions of the latest events at westminster. itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. i wouldn t vote conservative now, no. why not? because i don t feel we can trust them. the likely candidates include some very familiar faces, but labour says yet another change of prime minister should trigger a general election. the public are entitled to have their say, and that s why there should be a general election. we ll have all the news and analysis of the prime minister s resignation. also on this extended edition of bbc news at ten. people who work with chil
Romney and President Biden making jokes about donald trump. There was a lot to go around yesterday. Mitt romney, wow. Bring it home, willie. Yeah, mitt romney going in there, obviously no love lost between those two men. Mitt romney, expect to hear more of that throughout the campaign. Expert legal analysis on yesterdays testimony in the Hush Money Trial and the Gag Order Against Trump. Straight ahead. President bidens joke came while he was campaigning in florida. On the issue of Reproductive Rights and Womens Health care, blaming trump for Overturning Roe and these extreme Abortion Laws. Well show you more of the president s speech. Quite a flex going down to florida while trump was stuck in court in New York City. On capitol hill, a Top Republican admits its trumps fault that Border Security hasnt passed. We knew that. To hear this republican say it really brings it home. Willie, i had the news on all day, if i heard the word pecker one more time, i was going to lose my mind. David
Disappointed. we have got to give the country disappointed. we have got to give the country confidence disappointed. we have got to give the country confidence back. - disappointed. we have got to give| the country confidence back. there is a lack the country confidence back. there is a lack of the country confidence back. there is a lack of confidence here. otherwise people who would normally vote conservative, like myself will think vote conservative, like myself will think very vote conservative, like myself will think very differently if they don t -et think very differently if they don t get it think very differently if they don t get it sorted. as think very differently if they don t get it sorted- get it sorted. as the latest tory bubble burst, get it sorted. as the latest tory bubble burst, people get it sorted. as the latest tory bubble burst, people in - get it sorted. as the latest tory bubble burst, people in this - bubble burst, people in this conservative co