In eastern europe. lam free! this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines: canadian police say one of the two men charged in connection with a string of fatal stabbings has been found dead. liz truss has won the race to be the new leader of britain s conservative party. she will be installed as prime minister on tuesday. let s get more now on that story. our correspondents have been gathering reaction from around the world to liz truss beating rishi sunak to become britain s third female prime minister. in a moment we ll hear from moscow and brussels, but first here s stephen mcdonell in beijing.
Johnson s prime ministership, remember, he got an enormous wave of support at the last election, is not being painted in positive colors, honestly. there is now, though he is the great survivor. there is now, though, talk he may wait in the wings and perhaps look for another opportunity to be prime minister. i think that gives you a picture of the atmosphere here politically, with so many challenges looking ahead. i think for boris johnson, this will be a very difficult political moment. the man who not always accurately has been compared to president trump will be packing his bags now. in that very cutthroat nature of british politics, tomorrow in downing street, you ll see him thrown out and the new prime minister brought in, in pretty short order. i do suspect, though, we probably have not seen the last of boris johnson. nbc s keir simmons, thank you so much. we ll check back later on when we have a result there in
Has been facing. so that will be some pomp and ceremony, if you like. that s the political. for the new prime minister, who we do expect to be liz truss, britain s third female prime minister, who has been compared to margaret thatcher, we see her facing some enormous challenges. you could say just as margaret thatcher did back in the early 1980s. because, of course, there is the inflation challenge here that you are seeing there. some talk here of inflation reaching 20%. already, there is talk of the new prime minister, liz truss, bringing in a 100 billion pound, probably around $120 billion, package to stop businesses going bust. jonathan, there is even talk that british pubs up and down the country will have to close their doors and shut down over the winter because they simply can t afford to heat their pubs.
In germany, $26 billion package also being proposed. you re seeing the impact of that war in ukraine across europe, and i think you re going to see that for the new prime minister, jonathan. boris johnson, outgoing prime minister, upset by a number of scandals but received high marks for his support of kyiv. he repeatedly visited zelenskyy. uk, a firm ally along with the united states for the war in ukraine. what has liz truss, who is expected to emerge victorious, what she has said about the british effort to continue to back the war effort? reporter: she s been firm that she will continue the policy of boris johnson, in support of ukraine. remember, while britain is seeing gas prices go up, they don t take gas from russia. earlier this year, as foreign secretary met with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, he described it like talking to a deaf person. i don t think you ll see much
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