no matter what policies we have in place or what leadership, there s not a huge amount the government can do to make things better. i suppose the argument with liz truss is she and her mini budget and all her policies that came out of nowhere actually made things worse. things haven t. i suppose that does go some way to show that it is policies that can make a difference in the markets will fall in line if they think there is greater political and economic stability. so, whether rishi sunak or possibly penny mourdant, whoever wins, is able to enhance that stability, i think that remains to be seen. but what we do know about rishi sunak is that his whole economic vision and ideology is completely different from that of liz truss from the start. so we are ready know quite a bit about the vision that he ll be implementing. and we ve gotjeremy hunt, who did a lot of that unwinding. just quickly, boris, not this time. what struck me was that boris johnson said he thinks he would b
and president biden said the special relationship remained important but did not mention mrjohnson by name. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are annabel denham, who s director of communications at the institute of economics affairs, the iea, the free market think tank. also with me is anand menon, the director of uk in a changing europe, which produces independent social science research. thank you for coming back. we had a race of the first look at the papers. we ve got so much time now so we so we have much more time. lets start with the ft which says borisjohnson was defiant to the end as he announced his resignation. leave means leave is the metro s headline a play on the famous tory brexit slogan. according to the mirror that borisjohnson and his wife are planning to hold one last party at chequers. the daily mail has a picture of borisjohnson being consoled by his wife carrie. the paper highlights
twitter. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin this hour in sri lanka where protesters have stormed the president s official residence in colombo as the country s economic crisis deepens. the whereabouts of the president are unknown. police fired tear gas in an effort to disperse huge crowds gathered to demand the resignation of president rajapaksa. numerous groups have travelled from to the capital to join the demonstration, which went ahead after the authorities attempt to impose a curfew was abandoned. thousands of troops and police officers have been deployed. it s the latest protest to be sparked by the country s worst economic crisis in decades. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. a short time ago i spoke to our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. i began by asking him about his assessment today s events. there have been some dramatic developments over the past few hours
engagement and working together to take on challenges of regional security including addressing the threat posed by the democratic people s republic of korea. as monkeypox spreads worldwide, uk doctors say it could have a massive impact on access to sexual health services. polls close in parts of australia as two political veterans battle it out for the country s top job. and could this be the first of record breaking heatwaves across europe? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. relations were already difficult after finland applied to join nato, prompted by the war in ukraine. now moscow has taken action against its neighbour over energy supplies. russia s energy giant, gazprom has switched off gas deliveries it says finland is refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. meanwhile, the british foreign secretary has said she wants to see ukraine s neighbour moldova armed with nato standard military equipment to guard