about the political direction of the government during what she described as a tumultuous time. well, that development means that liz truss has now lost two very senior members of her cabinet injust a now lost two very senior members of her cabinet in just a few days. following the sacking of kwasi kwarteng as her chancellor of the exchequer. what an extraordinary few daysin exchequer. what an extraordinary few days in prime minister s questions, in the commons a little bit early on. liz truss said she is a fighter and not a quitter, but she is under more pressure than ever now. and this is the scene, you can see it in downing street. we may be hearing from the new home secretary, grant shapps, he was a supporter of rishi sunak who lost the tory leadership to liz truss. it is interesting now that liz truss is bringing people from that wing of the party, the rishi sunak wing of the party, if you want to call it that into the top echelons of her government. let s talk to our po
crisis in modern times. as covid spread, the nhs came under enormous pressure. in a televised address, borisjohnson announced extraordinary restrictions to daily life. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home. the prime minister himself became seriously ill with covid. he was admitted to intensive care and spent three days in hospital. a key ally throughout this time was dominic cummings, his unconventional style aggravated many. sorry i m late. and within a year of the election victory, he d resigned after a bitter power struggle clashing with tory mps and the prime minister s wife. he soon went on the attack, becoming mrjohnson s fiercest and most damaging critic. he doesn t have a plan, he doesn t know how to be prime minister and we ve only got him in there because we had to solve a certain problem, not because we thought that he was the right person to be running the country. there were electoral losses too. th
with turkey, returns agreement with places like albania and crossings on the channel down by a third. we have action taking hundreds of people arrested who have been part of a legal all involved in trafficking here in the uk as well. this is the next step on that, this will be the top is legislation that has ever been brought forward by a british government to tackle illegal immigration and that is what we are really focusing on today top as legislation. we heard from keir starmer early on, he doesn t back the plan. his only plan is to borrow £28 million a year more. which would go into higher taxes for everyone in the country. he wants open borders, he opposes our rwanda bill today because he is not interested in controlling illegal immigration and what we are really trying to assert colleagues at the moment is that this is a very important next step in exactly what we are trying to do, which is tackle illegal migration across the channel. which is tackle illegal migrat
one bus was set on fire. other vehicles were also burned and public transport services were damaged. riot police were deployed. speaking at a news conference this morning, police chief drew harris highlighted the unexpected nature of the riots, which he blamed on a complete lunatic faction driven by far right ideology. what we saw last night was an extraordinary outbreak of violence and we extraordinary outbreak of violence and we have to respond accordingly in terms and we have to respond accordingly in terms of and we have to respond accordingly in terms of our response to the policing in terms of our response to the policing of in terms of our response to the policing of disorder. but these are scenes policing of disorder. but these are scenes we policing of disorder. but these are scenes we have not seen in decades. this is scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not a scenes we have not seen in decade