election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country s economic stability and national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. the high stakes political scramble in britain to find yet another prime minister. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. liz truss stepping down after 45 days in office, her tenure the shortest at any prime minister in history. sending shock waves across britain and driving the tabloids into a dizzy. who will be the next prime minister? they expect to name a new prime minister by the end of next week. even the name of former prime ministers are being floated, remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone
tv news programme in the us. now on bbc news ian hislop s 2022: in conversation with amol rajan. even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. russia launched a war in europe. her late majesty queen elizabeth ii died just months after her platinum jubilee. and britain went through three prime ministers and even more chancellors. one man who s tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eye s fortnightly magazine and latest annual. i visited his office for a conversation notjust about recent news, but also why it s been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. let s start, if you re happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty crazy. yeah. ..and overwhelming, but this year, even more than most, we ve had war in europe, the death of her late majesty the queen, we v
situation that mpjill mortimer situation that mp jill mortimer seems situation that mpjill mortimer seems to be referring to in her letter. so any second now we expect the prime minister liz truss to appear at the black turn and make a statement. that is all we have been told. we were told that she would be making a statement at 1:30pm local time. and it is difficult to avoid reflecting, isn t it, rob, who is still with me here that it was just about six or so weeks or so that she was standing there on the day she was standing there on the day she was elected as leader of the party knew by minister. it is was elected as leader of the party knew by minister. was elected as leader of the party knew by minister. it is a tumultuous da in knew by minister. it is a tumultuous day in politics knew by minister. it is a tumultuous day in politics and knew by minister. it is a tumultuous day in politics and if knew by minister. it is a tumultuous day in politics and if people - k
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