have improved touch. but making ends meet still the biggest for families and firms. i can t give them the things you would like to give them, like the new books. i can t afford to do it any more. with a new promise from labour to help keep a lid on bills, we have one big question this morning is rishi sunak keeping his promise to run a professional government for us all? to answer that, james cleverly, the foreign secretary. the woman who d be your chancellor if labour win the next election rachel reeves is here. and the latest of our leaders interviews for 2023 we ll hearfrom nicola sturgeon, scotland s first minister. with me at the desk to help make sense of what that lot of have to say, the chair of tesco and imperial college, john allan, the lbc presenter and journalist, racheljohnson, and iain duncan smith tory mp who used to lead his party. good morning, thanks for being with us. it s not been a great week for the government, with a feeling that rishi sunak ca
of the exchequer. president zelensky says he ll keep asking western allies to send modern tanks to ukraine, after a meeting of more than 50 countries ended without agreement. hundreds of people have been protesting for the right to wild camp in dartmoor national park in the uk. last week the uk s high court ruled that the permission of landowners was required before camping on dartmoor. millions of people around the world are preparing for the start of the lunar new year. you are watching bbc news. political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to a new series, conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guess this week is the leader of britain s second largest trade union, sharon graham who replaced the rather better known mark. we are at a time restriction on the health service, strikes on the railway, strengths and schools, strikes in the civil service. foryears, and schools, strikes
of course, i don t know the exact figure, but there were hundreds of thousands, far more than expected. they had to introduce two lines of mourners passing on either side of the coffin and extend the hours, and i would be very surprised if the same thing does not happen again and we will see mass mourning on a scale we will see mass mourning on a scale we have not seen for 20 years. all the details are in this weighty document that has been drawn up, and which has been ready for many years, the document that is under the codename of london bridge. there is a copy of it here, and it covers every eventuality and that now needs to be updated with the final details, which need to be approved by the king, and you have explained already about the accession council at st james s palace tomorrow, already about the accession council at stjames s palace tomorrow, which will be televised, and the king will swear an oath, and one of the senior herald will proclaim the fact that his reign
suella braverman as home secretary, despite having broken the ministerial code last week, and michael gove returns, three months after he was sacked by boris johnson. civilians continue to leave the occupied ukrainian city of kherson, as russia continues to claim that, a so called dirty bomb might be used. after five palestinians are killed during an overnight israeli raid in the west bank, we report from nablus we have a new generation of militants and the israelis using a level of force that is not been seen in the west bank in years. and adidas cuts ties with the rapper ye, and dangerous . hello and welcome. rishi sunak is spending his first night as prime minister in downing street after being officially appointed by king charles on tuesday morning. the 42 year old who s the country s youngest leader in modern times and the only ever prime minister of colour, spent much of the day appointing his government ministers. and he s already held phone calls with world leaders,
We are expecting to see them in the next few moments leave Buckingham Palace on this late summer evening and travel into Westminster Hall where those who are paying their respects in the hall at that time will see the four of them together at the side of the coffin. It looks like they are just about to leave Buckingham Palace. The outriders are out of the gates. The Queen Consort will be with the king. Itll be the four of them standing together as theyin four of them standing together as they in edinburgh at st giles cathedral. But in the setting of Westminster Hall, it is of course the most historic, most ancient part of the palace of westminster, a place with immense resonance in the history of our national story, the history of our national story, the history of our monarchy, and therefore a particularly resonant setting for them to stand vigil together as they are about to do. There they are now coming out of the palace gates and beginning that Shortjourney Palace Gates and beginni