prime minister liz truss today setting the women s and men s indoor speed record for duration of a prime minister, only 44 days in office, that is not even her abrupt resignation earlier today throws our closest ally even further into chaos. now that our friends across the pond weren t able to find any humor in this instability, the economist magazine pointedly wondered which would last longer, liz truss s prime ministership or a perishable ahead of iceberg lettuce, a youtube live stream puts this theory to the test six days ago. well, lettuce, liz, is still standing. when folks start invoking solid items when discussing how long it will last at her job, at some point it becomes a feta complaint. but let us move on. how could six weeks ago so horribly wrong? liz truss s is fall from power exhilarated after she introduced trussonomics, a plan for massive tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest britons so that they could create jobs, she said. essentially, trickle down economics. th
2022, the year of three prime ministers, at least. after an astonishing decade in british politics, another unprecedented moment. is politics, another unprecedented moment. , , ., moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions - moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions of - voters for there s impressions of the latest events at westminster. itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. i wouldn t vote conservative now, no. why not? because i don t feel we can trust them. the likely candidates include some very familiar faces, but labour says yet another change of prime minister should trigger a general election. the public are entitled to have their say, and that s why there should be a general election. we ll have all the news and analysis of the prime minister s resignation. also on this extended edition of bbc news at ten. people who work with chil
of widespread unrest. taiwan s president tsai ing wen has pledged to bolster the island s combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwan s national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget or what we these days have to call fiscal event can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the iss on our programmes all the time. our guest is the director of the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, paul johnston, welcome to political thinking. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you got. how does that feel? very stran . e! got. how does that feel? very strange! the got. how does that
of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, in any budget, or what these days we have to call fiscal event, can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the ifs on our programmes all the time. my guest this week is the director of the ifs, pauljohnson. welcome to the programme. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you god. how does that feel? very strange. he chuckles all we are, as it were, we are a research institute who happen to work on fiscal things, which means public spending and tax, and when the government or the opposition make big announcements on tax and spending, we analyse it and we analyse it off the back of decades of experience we ve got. with the numbers, with understanding of what this stuff means. so we are able to say, do these add up? will it achieve what the chancellor says it will achieve? and what are the risks? when martin le
the morning, a chance of flooding and disruption. the winds are strengthening come up with coastal gales in the west. these are temperatures which we might normally see by day at this time of year. that is how we start the day tomorrow. so windy, wet, rain pushing across northern england, weakening further east across towards east anglia and the south east. by the afternoon, away from the far north of scotland and northern isles, a lot of dry weather around. broken cloud, sunny spells, chance of a shower. it is a windy day and from north wales northwards, costs of 50 mph, may be for a time in northern scotland, 60 mph. take pictures take a step backwards, but they come back up on saturday to similar levels today. friday evening, it is looking fine. overnight into saturday morning, another weather system coming in so northern and western parts on saturday with rain, mainly north and west for showers on sunday, some sunny spells, mild, windy, gradually turning cooler next week.