hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after 2 months of campaigning, and 8 initial candidates whittled down to 2, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak,
This is bbc news. The government says 27 high rise blocks of flats in 15 local authorities have failed fire cladding safety tests. Four buildings on the Chalcot Estate near Swiss Cottage in london were evacuated last night by authorities for urgent fire safety works. They identified a number of issues in the blocks around gas pipes going into flats, around fire doors and the message to me was the combination of the flammable external cladding and the issues inside the block meant the building was not safe. Some residents spent the night in hotels or on airbeds in a leisure centre. Around 80 households have refused to leave. The general advice is to get out and evacuate but until circumstances change my intend to stay put. Now it is Dateline London. Hello and welcome to Dateline London at the end of a week in which one leader held on Against The Odds whilst another found himself out of a job. The unlucky one was saudi arabias crown prince, replaced by a relative half his age, an encoura
This is bbc news. The government says 27 high rise blocks of flats in 15 local authorities have failed fire cladding safety tests. Four buildings on the Chalcot Estate near Swiss Cottage in london were evacuated last night by authorities for urgent fire safety works. They identified a number of issues in the blocks around gas pipes going into flats, around fire doors and the message to me was the combination of the flammable external cladding and the issues inside the block meant the building was not safe. Some residents spent the night in hotels or on airbeds in a leisure centre. Around 80 households have refused to leave. The general advice is to get out and evacuate but until circumstances change my intend to stay put. Now it is Dateline London. Hello and welcome to Dateline London at the end of a week in which one leader held on Against The Odds whilst another found himself out of a job. The unlucky one was saudi arabias crown prince, replaced by a relative half his age, an encoura