From the Great American songbook. Dealing with its debt restaurant chain Pizza Express calls in advisors over its £1 billion debt, ahead of crunch talks with its lenders. Andy murrays remarkable comeback from injury continues. Its confirmed that hell play singles at the australian in january, itll be his first singles appearance at a grand slamoa itll be his first singles appearance at a grand slam since major hip surgery. Sunshine and showers today but loving through quite quickly on a gusty wind. I will have more in 15 minutes. Its tuesday 8th october. Our top story the foreign secretary dominic raab has called on his us counterpart, mike pompeo, to allow a diplomats wife to return to the uk and face Police Questions about a fatal traffic accident. 19 year old harry dunn died in august after his motorbike was hit by a car near raf croughton, in northamptonshire, a military base used by the us air force. The main suspect, named as anne sacoolas, has left the uk and is protected from
he s the education secretary, kit malthouse. four years before then he did more junior roles, having been deputy to borisjohnson, not as prime minister, but when he was mayor of london. kit malthouse is seen as a fixer. he becomes the fifth education secretary in a little over a year, a sign ofjust how unstable politics has been. kit malthouse, welcome to political thinking. thank you. i m flattered to be here. well, it s been a roller coaster ride this week, hasn t it? it has been a challenging week, as they say. i think that s the euphemism that politicians use. but hopefully things will settle, although i have to say it comes. i mean, i got elected in 2015 and it s been a pretty much a roller coaster ride since 2016. so leadership elections, general elections, referendums, pandemics, wars, it s been a, you know, a bit of a roller coaster. so i sort of feel a bit seasoned towards it. and to be honest with you, nick, ifind myself a bit surprised that people are surprised be
memorials have been held across indonesia for the deceased. the british prime minister has admitted her government s mini budget that sparked turmoil on the financial markets could have been handled better. liz truss has remained defiant as senior conservatives criticised the fiscal event. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our thinking about what has shaped theirs. well, you know what they say about a week in politics. what a long time this week has felt since that budget that was officially not a budget. we ve seen the pound go down. interest rates go up, mortgages being cancelled, and billions and billions and billions of pounds being spent by the bank of england in order to try and defend the pension system. my guest on political thinking this week is a new member of liz truss s new cabinet. he s the education secretary, kit malthouse. four years befo
Theres been resignations and finally there have been some policy announcements as well. We do a lot of it. After your. News. Good evening. Im ray addison in the gb newsroom , rishi sunak in the gb newsroom, rishi sunak has been greeted by a group of pro Palestine Protesters as he visited a college in the West Midlands this afternoon. The situation was described as tense as the Prime Minister arrived at south Staffordshire College in cannock. Thats the last stop on his uk tour. Police officers his uk tour. Police officers formed a guard for mr sunak as his entry to the college was delayed and he was quickly ushered into the building as the crowd surged around him. Whilst inside , activists with banners inside, activists with banners and flags chanted free palestine and flags chanted free palestine ilabour and flags chanted free palestine i labour has ruled out any deals with the snp after the election, evenin with the snp after the election, even in the event of a hung parliament. Sir k
Days of influence in the labour party are over. It comes after mr corbyn confirmed that hell stand as an independent candidate in the general election, being expelled from the party as a result. He was suspended in 2020 after claiming that complaints of antisemitism had been dramatically overstated. Labour had been dramatically overstated. Labour leader the labour leader said hes not worried about corbyns popularity in islington north, which hes represented since 1983. Gb news can reveal that more than 10,000 channel migrants have crossed illegally to the United Kingdom so far this year. The milestone figure was reached today after another 154 arrived in dover , another 154 arrived in dover, having crossed in three small boats this morning. Its being seen as a blow to rishi sunak on his second full day of Election Campaigning. Of course, hed promised that his government would stop the boats. The former boss of the post office has been accused of living in la la land over her role in th