good morning from the centre of richmond in north yorkshire, rishi sunak s constituency. i will be speaking to people about the cost of living pressures they are facing and what they would like to see the new prime minister do to support them. in other news. the mother of murdered hull student libby squire is to meet her daughter s killer in prison. back with a point to prove how aston villa have moved to replace steven gerrard with the former arsenal manager unai emery. good morning. it is another mild day ahead following on from a mild start. for many it will be dry, although there are a few showers in the north and west. later, heavier rain and stronger winds in the south west. details coming up. good morning from downing street. it s tuesday, the 25th of october. rishi sunak will today become prime minister the third this year. it isa it is a day of firsts. he will be the first british asian to make it to number 10, and at 42, will become the youngest prime ministerfo
richard walker. former cabinet minister andrea leadsom. and the bbc s deputy political editor, vicki young. the chancellors day began like this. this 45p rate was simply a distraction in our mission to achieve higher growth. a u turn on the scrapping the 45p top rate of tax a policy he d announced in his mini budgetjust 10 days ago. now, in a little under 15 minnutes he ll be addressing the party faithful to persuade them that he is the man to be trusted with the economy through turbulent times. welcome to politics live in birmingham. andrea led some, after the market turmoil following the mini budget on the 23rd of september by kwasi kwarteng, and then the dramatic u turn overnight and this morning, on a central plank of that budget, and the economic perspectives of the government, how damaged is kwasi kwarteng s authority? i damaged is kwasi kwarteng s authori ? ~ ., , authority? i think it was really important authority? i think it was really important that author
permanent the universal credit uplift, better schools, better care, ongoing help with energy bills. yes, a windfall tax might be able to fund some of those things, but people will look at this list and think, how are you going to fund all of that at a time like this? we have alwa s that at a time like this? we have always been that at a time like this? we have always been responsible - that at a time like this? we have always been responsible in - that at a time like this? we have always been responsible in our l always been responsible in our approach. we have never put forward approach. we have never put forward a budget that is not funded in the way that the conservative state. the reason we have not done that is because we are worried about people s mortgages. the conservatives put forward an unfunded budget, which saw hundreds of pounds added to people s mortgages and crashed the economy. the liberal democrats have always been clear we need to have irresponsible funded budget. t
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