one of the world s worst stadium disasters. at least 125 people have died in a stampede at an indonesian football match after police tear gassed pitch invaders. and crunch time in brazil with just hour to go in the election which has seen a bitter campaign between past and present presidents. good evening. the prime minister has admitted her government should have laid the ground better before unveiling its plan for major tax cuts funded by borrowing which led to days of turmoil on the financial markets. in a bbc interview this morning liz truss defended the content of the mini budget but some prominent conservatives are publicly expressing significant concern. our deputy political editor vicki young is in birmingham where the conservative party conference is underway. this is a prime minister who needs to calm the markets and many in her own party. the decision to borrow billions to pay for tax cuts was met with panic and disbelief. today she made no apology for
as group sava nta comres. as group savanta comres. we go into the conference, other as we go into the conference, how other conservatives looking when we look at the polls, there are various polls out there, what are they telling us? polls out there, what are they tellin: us? , ., , ., telling us? they are telling us that if there was telling us? they are telling us that if there was a telling us? they are telling us that if there was a general telling us? they are telling us that if there was a general election - if there was a general election tomorrow, there would be a total wipe out, frankly. some of the polling leads we have seen the labour party last week, one was 33 points, i mean, if you put that into a seat calculator, that shows the conservative party are going to ultimately get very few seats, maybe even zero. i think that poll is an outlier but we are seeing a labour enjoy a majority they haven t had since 1997 and a polished sash haven t had since 1992. this is prett
if there is a suggestion the prime minister knew about things that could be rule breaking, or a suggestion he broke the rules himself, i think that would add to the pressure. one senior tory said to me last week if there is a suggestion the prime minister has broken the rules or done something seriously wrong, it could be terminal. chris hopkins is political research director at the market research company sava nta comres. he explains what their latest polls on uk voter intentions are showing. what it shows is for the first time in a long time a ten point labour lead. we haven t seen a ten point labour lead since 2019, in a very different political climate, we had the brexit party on 14% and change uk on 9% then so it goes to show how much has changed since then. also the labour vote share was 42% in this latest poll, and we haven t seen that since 2013,
evolving covid world. the measures being introduced in england broadly bring them in line with those in scotland, wales and ireland. what the overall impact they will have is hard to calculate but the longer they last or if tougher measures are introduced, the bigger the downside. ramzan karmali, bbc news. how have been the public been reacting to reports of christmas parties and also plan b measures? i m joined now by chris hopkins, associate director of the polling company, sava nta comres. good to have you. in terms of reaction to the downing street gatherings or parties, what is the public s stance on that? 0verwhelmingly negative. 83% of people thought the parties had let the country down, let the public down. 83% said that they had let people whose loved ones had died from covid down. that is the thought of the nation right now. 81% are