in the capital seoul. now on bbc news. ros atkins on the week. on a thursday night in may 2015, the returning officer in richmond, north yorkshire, announced the result. rishi sunak had become an mp. and part of a conservative election victory. the choice is in your hands. early the next year, prime minister david cameron called a referendum on brexit. my recommendation is clear. he wanted to stay in the eu. but rishi sunak didn t. he wanted out. the uk wanted out, too. david cameron would resign. six years later, rishi sunak was chancellor. he d been loyal to borisjohnson, until the scandals became too much. he resigned saying he didn t agree with mrjohnson s approach. a summer leadership contest followed. time and again, he contrasted his message with his opponent s. i ve said the things that i believe our country needs to hear. he lost. but liz truss would come and go. and now rishi sunak is prime minister. he s the leader who needs to persuade his colleagues to fall in li
a new wave of violence in iran, with security forces firing on anti government protestors. the head of britain s royal navy orders an investigation into allegations that female recruits have been sexually abused and harrassed on submarines. president biden condemns an attack on the husband of senior democrat nancy pelosi, saying there s too much vitriol in us politics. the un secretary general urges all sides to renew the deal on ukrainian grain exports, which is due to expire next month. and the coronation of a new zulu king is taking place in the south african city of durban. now on bbc news, ros atkins on the week. on a thursday night in may 2015, the returning officer in richmond, north yorkshire, announced the result. rishi sunak had become an mp. and part of a conservative election victory. the choice is in your hands. early the next year, prime minister david cameron called a referendum on brexit. my recommendation is clear. he wanted to stay in the eu. but rishi sunak
to have died and it s feared that number will rise. divers are continuing to search for survivors in the machchhu river. now on bbc news, ros atkins on the week. on a thursday night in may 2015, the returning officer in richmond, north yorkshire, announced the result. rishi sunak had become an mp. and part of a conservative election victory. the choice is in your hands. early the next year, prime minister david cameron called a referendum on brexit. my recommendation is clear. he wanted to stay in the eu. but rishi sunak didn t. he wanted out. the uk wanted out, too. david cameron would resign. six years later, rishi sunak was chancellor. he d been loyal to boris johnson, until the scandals became too much. he resigned saying he didn t agree with mrjohnson s approach. a summer leadership contest followed. time and again, he contrasted his message with his opponent s. i ve said the things that i believe our country needs to hear. he lost. but liz truss would come and go. and n
you are trying to fill will get smaller and smaller. his options, though, are limited in the sense that he if he is going to make those sums add up, at some point eventually you can only only do that two ways, either through tax rises or through spending cuts. but the word eventually is really important. there is no need for him to do something immediately. we are not going to see an nhs budget cut tomorrow. no, we are not going to see big tax rises or spending cuts probably this side of an election. he will set out his plan over the next five years, and what usually happens is that it is treasury, finance ministry sleight of hand, to do all the big changes at the back end of that process. there is an economic reason for doing that, which is you don t want to suck money out of the economy right now, because government spending is a big part of gdp. and secondly he has got an election in 2024 so it would be very convenient politically to push the pain beyond that date.
the hole you are trying to fill will get smaller and smaller. his options, though, are limited in the sense that he if he is going to make those sums add up, at some point eventually you can only only do that two ways, either through tax rises or through spending cuts. but the word eventually is really important. there is no need for him to do something immediately. we are not going to see an nhs budget cut tomorrow. no, we are not going to see big tax rises or spending cuts probably this side of an election. he will set out his plan over the next five years, and what usually happens is that it is treasury, finance ministry sleight of hand, to do all the big changes at the back end of that process. there is an economic reason for doing that, which is you don t want to suck money out of the economy right now, because government spending is a big part of gdp. and secondly he has got an election in 2024 so it would be very convenient politically to push the pain beyond that date. now