conservative party _ circumstances. we will be live at l the conservative party conference circumstances. we will be live at - the conservative party conference to bring you speech from the home secretary. the uk's public inquiry into the covid pandemic begins — it's expected to last for two years. ukraine says its troops have seized back more territory in regions annexed by russia last week. calls for supermarkets to give more surplus food to those in need — after a drop off in donations as the cost of living crisis bites. and the british—built space rover looking for work after its mission to mars was cancelled. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has refused to rule out a real terms cut in benefits — despite growing pressure to do so. liz truss faces a fresh battle with some conservative mps who want her to promise welfare payments will rise in line with inflation rather than earnings — a lower percentage figure that would save the government billions of pounds. there's already a cabinet split on the issue. the leader of the commons penny morduant has openly deman

. be starting their conservative party conference-— be starting their conservative party conference into a role, it should _ conference. three or four weeks into a role, it should be _ conference. three or four weeks into a role, it should be positive, - conference. three or four weeks into a role, it should be positive, lots- a role, it should be positive, lots of consumer conservative friendly announcements being made and uniting the party. many mps are not even going to attend, i don't think there will be concerns about anything the government tries to do was to be overshadowed by the fact of the aftermath of the mini budget. there are questions about how people cope financially, notjust with the energy package. the government has taken big steps on that. now with the rising cost of mortgages as well. , ., ~ ijy by the prime minister will have done anything to reassure the party? hat anything to reassure the party? not enou:h to anything to reassure the party? iifrt enough to reassure the party. there was some admission that the handling of this was wrong on the ground was not la

and was bbc reporting at the conservative party conference too negative and snide? ple of weeks for the government and for the prime minister personally, all eyes on wednesday morning were on the conservative party conference in birmingham. the bbc�*s political editor chris mason was in the hall for liz truss's speech and for some on—the—spot analysis straight afterwards. that was the speech of a prime minister trying to hold her party together. have you done enough, prime minister? this has been a conference defined by dysfunction, disagreement, even open civil war. i know that sounds like an exaggeration. it really isn't. as for the prime minister, she couldn't leave quickly enough. she can run away from this conference, but not the immense challenges she confronts. john smith took exception to what he saw there on news bulletins later in the day. and a viewer called doreen had a different objection. susan also contacted us about that latter sequence and recorded this video for us. my complaint is triggered by some nasty, unkind, snide reporting i heard from chris

the pm puts on a brave face at the conservative party conference.on would simply be not to proceed with the abolition of the rate. junked first thing, justified all day by a determination to focus on other thing, that will help grow the economy. this has been a very difficult day for a government facing more difficulties ahead. have the chancellor and the pm done enough to win back the markets, critical tory mps — and the public? also tonight.

liz truss says people should trust her to do what it takes — in her first speech to the conservative party conferences leader. after a u—turn on tax, and rows about a possible squeeze on benefits, the prime minister talked about growth and focused on trying to sell her economic vision. whenever there's change, there is disruption, and not everybody will be in favour of change, but everyone will benefit from the results — a growing economy and a better future. applause her speech was briefly disrupted by greenpeace protesters — who were ejected from the hall. heckling we'll bring all the reaction to the prime minister's speech from birmingham. also this lunchtime... ukraine's president says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances — and have liberated dozens of villages from russian forces. charities say hundreds of thousands of people in somalia face starvation unless aid deliveries are stepped up after the worst drought in a0 years. new research suggests elite rugby players are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to develop long—term brain conditions. another day of disr

as the conservative party conferences begins ah the, the remains of e n. a just about visible they are no longer a hurricane, even a tropical circulation, really, but the remains of the moisture is still there. caught up against this cold front coming down out of canada, the 2 together, producing pretty unpleasant conditions down the east coast. the u. s. from bay and answered laura, and i think more of a nor'easter and are wet one. but beyond that it still looking fine. it's still very warm in the plane ticket, northern plains, even the prairies of canada, quite warm and 24. when he picked jas. route. the rockies, as you can see, to the west, that is still quite remains or pleasant. i have to say jumping south or you can still catch the same system that is produced. that nor'easter will produce big chairs in the bahamas, eastern cuba. backstreet nicaragua, for example. now, salvador, but on the west coast of mexico, hearken only in a category. one is going to make land full probably early monday as jumps out to south america. and here things are relativel

liz truss has given her first speech to the conservative party conference as prime minister.e refused to "consign our great country to decline". she insisted she and the chancellor, kwasi kwarteng, were in "lockstep" as they sought to get the economy moving, and took aim at what she called the "anti—growth coalition". i have three priorities for our economy. growth, growth and growth. applause growth means more money in people's pockets. it means businesses creating newjobs. growth means people can feel secure and they can plan for their future. fundamentally, growth helps people fulfil their hopes and dreams. and thatis fulfil their hopes and dreams. and that is why our dynamic new chancellor and i will be taking action in three areas. first of all, we will lower... applause first of all, we will lower our tax burden. 0verthe first of all, we will lower our tax burden. over the summer, we had a robust debate and the conservative party will always be the party of low taxes. cheering and applause cutting taxes is the right thing to do, morally and economically. morally, becaus

the pm puts on a brave face at the conservative party conference. before he made his speech this afternoon, the chancellor admitted their plan had to change. this 45 pence rate became a distraction, and i, along with the prime minister, decided that the best course of action would simply be not to proceed with the abolition of the rate. junked first thing, justified all day by a determination to focus on other thing, that will help grow the economy. this has been a very difficult day for a government facing more difficulties ahead. have the chancellor and the pm done enough to win back the markets, critical tory mps — and the public? also tonight. the energy regulator ofgem warns of a "significant risk of gas shortages" this winter. the man accused of murdering nine—year—old olivia pratt korbel appears in court in liverpool. cheers for the king and queen consort on their first public engagement since the end of the period of royal mourning. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel: there's always pride at stake in the east mi

meanwhile, at the conservative party conference, the northern ireland minister steve baker has apologisedor showing a lack of understanding to his irish and eu counterparts when making the case for brexit. 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. brazilians are voting in the first round of an election which has seen a bitter campaign between past and present presidents. and double hat—tricks for manchester city in the manchester derby. reaction to that and rest of the day's sport in sportsday at 7:30. 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

as the conservative party conference begins ah, anticipation is rising. with most of my cattle aways. now a good part of east asia has been recognized that summer has gone the still a lingering heat wave south of the yangtze. it's being pushed out of the way by this line of cloud brain, which is affected the winter front attempt just to the south of that or well above where they should been setting new records in both eastern china. the green for japan, b. c. that's already changed by monday, the rain will certainly cool things down during tuesday. that rain spreads into japan as well. bringing with a dimensional drop in temperature to wait for wednesday to that same is true back on the chinese and as well. so take, so wednesday, for most of each asia to recognize we've changed season jumping south though this is more seasonally normal, does rain all over the place. the concentration usually is going to be the in the china, down through sumatra and towards java and west bornea. but to be honest in the philippines is pretty sherry's well, which is again to

on the 1st day of the annual conservative party conference trust insisted she's confident her tax cutting package for boost economic growth was poor, but, and report from birmingham. she is facing criticism and descent both from outside and within her own party. yes. as honeymoon periods, go. this has to be one of the shortest in political history. less than a month since las trust took over the u. k. new conservative prime minister, a government's controversial tax and borrowing plans in the conservative party conferences, literally besieged by critics. from the p. m and admission id stand by the package we announced. and i stand by the, by the fact that we announced it quickly because we had to act by do accept, we should have laid the ground better than right. doing sap that you accept the economic strategy of trust and her chancellor is intended to dramatically boost growth. the plan to give tax cuts to the rich, funded by billions of pounds of government borrowing, sent the currency and bond markets into turmoil last week. and members of trust his own parliamentary party are threaten

and you can keep across all the updates, news and analysis from the conservative party conference onws — and by using the bbc news app. memorials are being held in indonesia, after at least 125 people were killed in a stampede at a football stadium — after police fired tear gas at fans who had invaded the pitch. it happened in malang, on the island ofjava, from where our correspondent valdya baraputri reports. and a warning that you might find parts of her report distressing. the night after the tragedy, indonesian supporters returned to the kanjuruhan stadium. dozens walked around the area holding candles and chanting prayers. the night ended with a defeat to the home club. supporters went to the pitch to express their disappointment to players and officials, and then indonesian police tear gassed the crowd and people ran to the exit, only to find that they were closed. tonight, people gathered at the statue of the club mascot, where they put flowers and candles. this man lost a friend he watched football games with, but he didn't go on that fateful day. he hopes his friend, a fathe

our political correspondent, ione wells, reports from the conservative party conference in birminghamhancellor's big day, his chance to outline in a speech his vision for growing the economy, but the focus was all wrong. too many conservative mps were uneasy at plans to scrap the top rate of tax for the highest earners. former cabinet ministers like michael gove and grant shapps warned the government would lose a vote on their plans but it didn't stop the prime minister doubling down on them yesterday. are you absolutely committed to abolishing the 45p tax rate for the wealthiest people in the country? yes. the chancellor was planning to say today that we must stay the course but last night senior ministers here were ringing around worried mps to try to win hearts and minds. it didn't work. we talked to lots and lots of people up and down the country, we talked to lots of... not only colleagues, mp colleagues but also people, voters, constituents, crucially people in the country and i felt that the 45p rate was a huge distraction on what was a very strong set of measures. the energy i

this 1st speech to the conservative party and conference, wasn't it? some people are saying it could be her last. so even though you know, her supporters in the party might have liked it, how much trouble is her? is her government really in after just being in power for 4 weeks. when you look at the poles, she's in quite a lot of trouble since she took office, the conservative party has been become much, much more unpopular with the british public. she led trailing behind $25.00 points behind labor, who is the strongest opposition party. so that's not a good look for list trust. i spend 2 days at the conservative party conference i spoke to delegates and there is a lot of criticism of leadership and of the various u turns that she had to had to perform. and her shirt short tenure, one delegate said when they are at the canvassing at the doorstep, it was a counsellor. they always being told that the such a mess and the government and that they have to bear the brunt su altogether. the party is not in a happy place and the conservative party conference wa

france 24's london correspondent talked about open disputes taking place at the conservative party conference, an event usually held for choreographed displays of party voting. >> another day, another open row, another big dispute within the governing conservative party . liz truss is indeed facing a fresh battle today and tonight. she faces growing pressure from some within her party to increase benefit payments in line with inflation. we have a cost-of-living crisis, inflation at 10%. the problem is that in an interview, she said today she had not made a decision on that yet, and she certainly when asked repeatedly refused to rule out a real terms cut in welfare benefits, despite growing pressure on her to do so. what we've got is 25 hours after the 45 pence scrapping hour reversing the scrapping of the higher income tax rate, you've got another major row and mp's going around criticizing the prime minister, disagreeing with her, so the least one can say is that it is not just another day, it is another day in the middle of the annual tory cference. all of this on the people of her first ke

i want to take you to the conservative party conference taking place in birmingham. s where we have lizzy. >> i am joined here at conservative party conference by anthony browne, conservative mp, member of the treasury select committee. thanks for joining me. after 12 years of conservative government, is birmingham the last hurrah? >> certainly an interesting conference. we have a new government, new prime minister, new chancellor, cabinet minister. they are focused on growth and getting the economy going again. i support that agenda, supported it before they adopted it. i am sure we can get ahead with the rest of the plan. lizzy: before then, you supported rishi sunak to be the leader and before that you were an economic journalist. given the turmoil we have seen in the markets, is it difficult to lead policy? anthony: i support the focus on growth. a lot of the policy is focused on getting the economy growing again. when rishi sunak announced the increase in the corporation tax, national insurance, that was before the russian invasion of ukraine, which made inflatio

, rememberthis you from the conservative party conference, remember this is the forum of theits new leader and enjoy a new administration coming in for supporters to welcome new ministers and their new leader. instead we are on day two talking about a massive u—turn. so yes, there will be some who say we have done the right thing, that is certainly how kwasi kwarteng is trying to present it. he said i got it, i heard what people had to say and i'm changing my mind. but there will always be people saying, why did you make the decision in the first place? that is some concerns of the political judgment in the first place. remember how kwasi kwarteng presented the 45p tax rate. a lot of what was in the mini budget was outlined in advance, we knew there would be a tax—cutting agenda, but there was no mention of cutting tax for the highest earners and that was part of kwasi kwarteng's big reveal. remember it is 46p in scotland 45p, remember it is 46p in scotland which has not gone. it was his rabbit out of the hat in the mini budget, and now 2a hours after the prime minister defen

lizzy burden joining us from the conservative party conference. joining us now, daniel morris.aniel, when you look at the u.k., the -- center of goldman-s, is this an investable market? >> i think the message that comes across clear in the reporting we heard, there is simply too much uncertainty for anyone to take a position. we need to get more information on what is going to be somewhat of a reassessment. alix: how -- what happened in the u.k.? i appreciate the headlines, are idiosyncratic. as many are talking about, the fire was already there. what can explain away the dysfunction happening in the u.k. markets? do we see that elsewhere, and is that what we are looking at where we need to model risk now? daniel: we can look at it as a extreme example. western governments are going to face as we try to unwind the effective quantitative easing. if we go back to the -- and the government response during the lockdowns, with -- was unprecedented. we had trillions and support that was provided. it was justified at the time, given the cause. it was comparatively easy because constra

iain watson reports from the conservative party conference. it is to hurt time for liz truss.er chancellor are under pressure, reversed their abolition of the 45p tax rate, now she is facing more pressure from some of her own mps to increase benefits in line with inflation, a promise made by her predecessor but which is now in the balance. {iii by her predecessor but which is now in the balance.— in the balance. of course, how we 0 erate in the balance. of course, how we operate benefits _ in the balance. of course, how we operate benefits is _ in the balance. of course, how we operate benefits is an _ in the balance. of course, how we operate benefits is an important l operate benefits is an important issue, but that is a decision to be made later this year. my priority was dealing with the immediate issues that families face this winter, and i'm sure people can understand why we had to act on that first. , ., , , first. here is what she is weighing u -. first. here is what she is weighing un- reversing _ first. here is what she is weighing up. reversing the _ first. here is

k. prime ministers, controversial tax and barring plan, as the conservative party begins as conference. and we're in guinea where there's growing frustration over the worsening economy. the lack of a political transition, one year after a military coupon that status ah the remains of ian at just about visible that i no longer a hurricane even a tropical circulation already, but the remains of the moisture is still there. caught up against these cold front coming down out of canada, the 2 together, producing pretty unpleasant conditions down the east coast. the u. s. from bank, answered laura, and i think more of a nor'easter and are wet one. but beyond that it's still looking fine. it's still very warm in the plane. strictly the northern plains, even the prairies of canada, quite well 24 when he picked jas route, the rockies. as you can see, the west that is still quite remains or pleasant, but i have to say jumping south or you can still catch the same system that is produced. that nor'easter will produce big shouting, but bahamas, eastern cuba, baxter nicaragua, for example, el salva

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of the front pages — his admission of having had a "tough day" during his speech to the conservative party conference metro. the mirror calls it a "calamity conference" after a u—turn on plans to scrap the 45p tax rate for the highest earners — but the paper says the damage to the economy is already done. kwasi kwarteng will bring forward his plans for the economy sooner, the financial times reports. the paper says the conservatives are trying to reassure markets by speeding up debt—cutting proposals. the i says after that u—turn on tax, conservative mps could now threaten liz truss�*s plans on benefits and public spending cuts. that same headline in the guardian, which claims senior tories are warning about rebellions over reductions in spending. and kwasi kwarteng and liz truss are seen behind the wheel of a noddy car with the number plate "shoddy" on the front of the daily star — the calls the pm a "poundland thatcher" who's been forced into a tax climbdown. so let us begin with some, i think it fair to say, uncomfortable headlines for the government. let's start with the financial times, "kwarten

k. prime minister's controversial tax and boring plans as the conservative party begins as conference, more than steamers. ah . but the lazy breeze at the moment around or in the gulf states and without any significant breeze, you tend to get higher humidity. so i think all the way from dubai, right up towards q 8, the onshore breeze will mean it will feel little bit sticky for a while. but generally speaking, the change of season has been fairly obvious and particularly so in that year where 41.2 has just been swept out of the way. so a new record, the whole country for october, but now we're back to normal. 31 come monday with a few showers in the northeast of the country. now the country temperatures in the levant have been quite hard to recent, still showing 30, but eventually is breeze will come inland, and temps will start to drop a little bit. otherwise, things are really quite caught little bit on the hot side and back that may be, but as i say, for most part we're more or less where we should be the whole of, after still to dry, ethiopia is producing some shouts, and they are

market turmoil that followed that mini budget last week, and it has been a very traumatic conservative party conferencelast night said it was probably the worst he had been to in 50 odd years, in terms of party unity and strife of purpose, but i think liz truss has stabilised the situation for now. i think they will not be this immediate push against her when westminster returns next week, but they're still very big questions about this economic agenda. is it going to work? and, crucially, is it going add up? sebastian payne. we also spoke to has ahmed, former campaign adviser for rishi sunak during the tory leadership race. we asked him what he thought of the prime minister's speech. liz truss, given the week that she's had, and the u—turn of the 45p tax rate, all things considering, liz truss gave a really good speech. and from speaking with members and everybody else, we felt really united and behind liz truss. we know, as the previous speaker before me just said, that it will take some time. 2023 is, of course, very ambitious, but she is an ambitious prime minister who wants to get things done and

as we've been reporting, this week is the conservative party conference in birmingham. nity, splits in the party have been wide open. in the past few days, other senior conservative mps like michael gove spoke out about the chancellor's plan to cut the highest level of income tax. the government u—turned on that proposal. today the home secretary suella braverman attacked those who undermined the chancellor. ultimately, i am very disappointed that members of our own parliamentary party aged a coup effectively and undermined the authority of the prime minister. in an unprofessional way. the truss government's approach overall, too, has been met with mixed reactions. former secretary of state nadine dorries posted this tweet today, reacting to comments from truss that her government would look at thing differently. dorries said... and that if they did not want to deliver on the promises, they need a fresh mandate. put simply — any big policy changes must be put to the people, in an election. as the party looks to future elections, these divisions could prove to be a persis

frankly, that is not unusual at conservative party conference. he annual conference that you would at a labour party annual gathering, but as i said, they are here for a long time, until wednesday afternoon, and they will have to feel that i'm somehow! it certainly gives us plenty of opportunities to try to speak to ministers and mps, activists and donors, to get a sense of what they think about the government's new economic strategy, which does mark a very big break to the one that borisjohnson was pursuing just a month or two ago. yes, the government will obviously want to move all the talk away from that. what else will be top of their agenda? well, i mean, it is not really a forum... certainly not a forum for creating policy here, or even debating it. again, like labour, you won't see the whole full of people debating policy issues that have percolated upward through the party to discuss. the tory party conference is a very stage—managed thing. we will hear a number of speeches, most of them are in short, from cabinet ministers, and then a num

labour has i think a lead over the conservative party it has not had for about 20 years and it was the labour party at their conference in its step. it is dawning on people here that if they have any chance of holding on and winning the next election in around two years, there is a battle ahead of them. i think there are a lot ofjitters about whether they are on the right track or not. notjust on the economic question, which is clearly going to be central, but issues such as fracking as well. part of the liz truss, kwasi kwarteng reform agenda for getting growth, they have decided to lift the ban on fracking. there is disquiet within the tory party about that and labour have certainly said that is not the right way to go. there is a lot of controversy in british politics at the moment and conservatives are worried, i think critically around whether or not their economic red ability has been shot and how they start to rebuild it for some as i said, not very long to go until voters have their next say. before we leave you, any murmurings that you have picked up as to what took place today? it has been described as the p

we couldn't simply do nothing on poor brandon reports on this story from the conservative party conference. it's been a very difficult conference, frankly, the party would normally come here 12 years in power. don't forget, on a, on a high. it's generally a celebrates removed, but it certainly hasn't been this time around because of the control vesee over the government's tax and boring plans are announced 10 days ago. i defended very robustly there in the opening sentences of the chancellors keynote speech to this conference, but not reacted well by the markets and in the wider public which saw in particular the abolition of the higher tax rate, which is levied on those highest honors in the u k, as a kind of budget for the rich, what quasi crossing was doing in the opening section of the speech that we managed to listen to was emphasized that the government plan for growth benefits everybody . and he emphasized that he said everybody, and i mean everybody benefits from higher growth and with the higher rate tax now struck the strapping of the higher rate tax. now not going to be scrapped

very much in contrast to the situation that you got going on here in the conservative party conference. and the other thing that was interesting was the number of businesses that had gone to the labor party conference to buy tickets, to go and attend and smooth and exhibit and, and basically get time with the front shadow front bench ministers to, to press their case. now that indicates to me that business is seeing which way the political winds are blowing, and they're realizing that perhaps they need some pivots away from the conservatives. the conservatives chances of really getting reelected in 2 years time when the next election happens off are less than they were. and that perhaps the labor party is, is not a government and waiting, but certainly a party that you need, sir. so, investing in as far as businesses go pulling, they've begun the preamble video in the hall. there are so let's trust is now less than 3 minutes away. well, we'll take some of her speech, at least some of it may be all of it when she begins to speak. in the meantime. uh paul, let let out. i'll stay with you

lizzy burden is live from the conservative party conference, what can you tell us about the u-turn?francine, the pressure got too much in birmingham for the prime minister. the chancellor has done a round of interviews and said the rate cut was becoming a huge distraction. the government wants to take political credit for all the money it has spent on the energy bailout and that was not proving possible. he said we listen to two people, admitting that they did not get it for 10 days. asked if you would consider resigning, he said not at all let ruled out further u-turns. it started to look inevitable yesterday, the prime minister through kwarteng under the bus and blamed him specifically for this to a text scrapping. then we heard from a cabinet minister saying this decision was not in line with tory values. she had been desperately trying to imitate her political hero margaret thatcher and not be returning, but she has proved that market and political realities have got to her. it seems to many she has revealed her true colors, she has had to flip-flop and blame a colleague. tom: a

i'm tom mackenzie at the conservative party conference in birmingham. u.k.quities giving up some gains yesterday, the benchmark down .5%. futures stateside pointing lower as well by .5%. and selling on the gilt market, the two-year with a move higher by 10 basis points. francine: twitter shares soared after elon musk revived his bid to buy the company at the original price of $54.20 a share. it over a potentially contentious courtroom fight. bloomberg had the story first, which was then confirmed by a letter from the sec. alex, i have a million questions whether he is doing it because he really wants to buy it, or if it is just a clever way for him to get out of the courtroom. >> not looking good for him as far as the court case was concerned. there were evidentiary hearings and he had lost almost all of them. it focused on the greek question -- key question, did they break the merger agreement? if they focused on that and not the bots red herring elon musk had raised. we have seen texts which give a claims into the way he operates the past few days. perhaps

conservative party. earlier this week, more than 2000 people took to the streets of birmingham to disrupt the conservative party conference, where truss and other tory leaders were expected to speak. the crowd brandished anti war banners while calling out the rich for making people very. that's one of the economic crunch. journalist and former labor party member, roger mackenzie, says britain's are fed up with their government. chances are thousands of workers have had enough of being treated like rubbish and being told that they're somehow um, an antique o alicia. and i'm also like against gross or against and the economy where they stand up for their jobs must be caught for to put bread on the table at moments they can't afford to barely keep a roof over their heads. the super rich, i'm simply look after themselves and to look after each other and expect i am working people the working class just to survive, barely survive. and frankly, they don't even care whether we survive or not. sorry, kaufman felt that they could. and some higher. um channel money away from working people towards actual statements than to richard

so all those interventions aimed at reassuring people, and on the eve of the conservative party conference prime minister will be interviewed live on bbc one this weekend on sunday morning with laura kuenssberg. you can see that at the slightly earlier than usual time of 8.30am. hurricane ian has made landfall in the us state of south carolina as a category one storm, after pummelling florida. the historic coastal city of charleston has been lashed by winds and heavy rain. hundreds of kilometres of the south—eastern seaboard of the us are under severe weather alerts. this map shows the expected path of the storm on saturday. the bbc�*s nada tawfik is in south west florida and sent this report. the category one storm made landfall friday afternoon near georgetown, just north of the historical city of charleston, with winds of 85 mph. its powerful storm surge downed power lines, plunging 400,000 people into darkness and left a some stranded. at pawley�*s island, local police captured the end of a pier collapsing before it floated away. 0fficials did not feel evacuations were necessary, but t

.— economic vision at the conservative party conference. fit from the results. a growing economy and a better future. from the results. a growing economy and a betterfuture. the ukrainian president says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances and have liberated dozens of villagers from russian forces.— russian forces. another day of disruption _ russian forces. another day of disruption for _ russian forces. another day of disruption for rail— russian forces. another day of disruption for rail passengers i russian forces. another day of. disruption for rail passengers as 9000 train drivers take part in a strike about pay and conditions. police in england and wales have pledged to send an officer to attend all home burglaries. new research suggests elites rugby players are more than twice as likely than the rest of the population to develop long—term brain conditions. and the stars come out to celebrate james bond on the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the first bond film, doctor no. we will we will start we will start with we w

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let's go back to the conservative party conference.90s classic moving on up sound of the 90s classic moving on up and spoke about her upbringing. after briefly being interrupted by protesters she spoke about the energy crisis and the support available to people facing higher bills. let's speak to some conservative voters and members about the prime minister's speech. i'm joined now by ellis holden, member of the york tories society, wayne fitzgerald, chair of the peterborough conservative constituency association, and tory voter michelle kazi, who was sat behind the greenpeace protesters when they interrupted the speech. welcome, all of you. 0k, welcome, all of you. ok, let's go to first, ellis. what did you think? first but i think it was a speech that was really... its purpose was to energise people, get people back into the spirit of campaigning, making sure we are already to just not exactly what burden not ignore what's been going on in the news but make sure we're ready to put get us going, it is a bit happier again, despite the

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let's go to on corresponding poll brennan, who is live for us in birmingham, where the conservative party conference has been taking place today. what's the reaction been that i well, it's an extraordinary kind of state of affairs here at the conservative party conference. we are just a month into a new government and you premiership on the list trust and her new chancellor quasi quoting who is going to give his keynote speech in about an hour's time here in birmingham. but this morning, having been forced to essentially into a screeching, you turn over this very controversial policy of abolishing the highest tax rates levied against britain's richest. he was doing away with that to keep, allow the britons riches people to keep more of the money in that focus. this is the time when the rest of the population is thinking about a, a cost of living crisis. now, joining me to talk about this is lay on maralie. he is a communications advisor. no, no stranger to government. you works as an advisor under the minister, steve ballclub back in the day. what do you make of this? when people, you know, stretch

let's go to birmingham now, tom mackenzie's of conservative party conference for us. the best i can say about that speech is it did not call the market -- calm the market reaction. >> the consensus was this was not a terrible speech from the prime minister but i think she framed it which is this is a prime minister trying to undo some of the wounds of the problems in the issues she's confronted since her premiership. and all those different constituencies she needs to address and their credibility with with the public, her own party. within her own cabinet and with the markets as well. what she did with this speech was try to regain the initiative. she talked about her plan for a reformed britain. a new era. she wants to move which he described his high-growth -- low growth high tax environment. she also did give a nod to the markets. she seemed to make an attempt to push back on the idea she will challenge the boe's independence. something she suggested on the campaign trail or have an iron grip on the country's finances. the big questions that were not addressed, on

meanwhile, at the conservative party conference, the northern ireland minister and arch brexiteer, stevestanding to his irish and eu counterparts during the brexit process.

weeks for liz truss, the british prime minister will deliver her keynote speech at the conservative party conferenceater. this comes with top members of her team and open disagreement about her fiscal plans. let's get over to the conservative party conference in birmingham with bloomberg's lizzy burden. what are we expecting from this big speech today? >> defiant is the tone liz truss is going to try and strike today. she will want to tell us that she is going to get on with the job even if it makes are unpopular. that's a very difficult message to deliver given that she's already had to u-turn on the top rate of tax cut. at the other end of the equality spectrum, there are open divisions in her cabinet about what to do on welfare payments. penny mordant who ran against liz truss to be the leader has said that she would stick with boris johnson's commitment to raise benefits in line with inflation. liz truss says perhaps she wouldn't do that because it would help to incentivize people into work, it would help to save money to pay for her tax cuts, and i've been asking lots of other cabinet ministers

sanchia mentioned the conservative party conference, which opens tomorrow in birmingham, and today, primer liz truss has admitted for the first time that there has been disruption in the uk economy following the mini budget last week. the government unveiled £16 billion of tax cuts funded by borrowing last week, but did not accompany it with the usual economic assessment of the plans, carried out by the office for budget responsibility, an independent body set up by george osborne when he was chancellor. that appears to have spooked investors. a short time ago, i spoke to our political correspondent ione wells, who said the chancellor's so—called mini—budget last week had irked some conservative mps to the point where they aren't planning to pitch up for the gathering. that's right. certainly, the views are mixed. i'm hearing from some conservative mps that they don't plan to turn up at all. others who feel that it is important for them to be here and show their support for the government at this time. i think what's really interesting about the context of this conference is, often party

this afternoon, he spoke to party members at the conservative conference. >> i know the plan put forwardys ago has caused turbulence. i get. [laughter] we are listening and have the surge. now i want to focus on delivering the major parts of our great package. lewis: this was the response from the labour party. >> the budget showed that their instincts were to cut taxes for the wealthiest, paid for by borrowing, which in the end, current and future taxpayers have to pay for. lewis: some conservative mps, who defended the original plan, now defended not doing it. here is the secretary to the treasury. >> there were complaints about the 45 he. the prime minister listened. this is a government that does listen. we will not be diverted from our mission to get the economy growing, which will benefit everybody. lewis: the little earlier, i spoke to rob watson, who has been following all the action at the conservative party conference. >> it can only be described as humiliating because both parts are saying, let's trust the prime minister. they were saying we were not going to do this and they

we will have the latest from the conservative party conference where the prime minister is under fire-inomics economics plan. >>> day two of the u.k. conservative party conference kick off just hours from now with prime minister liz truss already backtracking on a key point of her plan. her finance minister announced moments ago the government was reversing its plan to scrap the highest rate of income tax. she admitted to the bbc sunday the plan had been rolled out, could have been rolled out better. >> i do want to say to people, i understand their worries about what has happened this week and i do standby the package we announced and the fact we announced it quickly because we had to act. i do accept we should have laid the ground better. i do accept that. >> you accept you should have laid the ground better? >> i have learned from that. i have learned from that. and i will make sure that in future, we do a better job of laying the ground. >> truss also passed some of the blame for the public fury to her chancellor of the checker. that he made the decision despite dissent within the

conservative arguments. i believe in the values of our party, no taxes, enterprise and aspiration." and when we've been talking to people at the conservative party conferenceteng for what they're doing. the?t support liz truss and kwasi kwarteng for what they're doing.— for what they're doing. they must be because party _ for what they're doing. they must be because party members _ for what they're doing. they must be because party members voted - for what they're doing. they must be because party members voted for. because party members voted for them, and they were the majority choice. but i think we are talking about a much wider group of people thanjust about a much wider group of people than just those who are at the conservative conference, or actual members of the party. but what the telegraph is pointing out, and i think it is very interesting is that there is a groundswell of opinion that it's going to be difficult to try and achieve all the objectives the government has set out. if you want to cut spending, you've got to find out how to do that. raising taxes is one option, but if you want to cut taxes, then you have to do something somewhere alo

ben wright at the conservative party conference. accept no substitutes.ura kuenssberg. also on the shadow chancellor, labour's rachel reeves. it begins slightly later at 0830, because of coverage of the london marathon. greater manchester police have given an update on their continuing search of saddleworth moor after suggestions that potential human remains had been found on the moors. they have just released these photos. they are looking for the remains of 12—year—old keith bennett, who was a victim of moors murderers ian brady and his partner they say they were tipped off about remains already discovered on the site. it seems to be something to do with an author that has been investigating. statement has been issued saying a job was what was said to have been found but they have found no human rain so far. the reason they have searched the area and the police moved to rapidly as the case of keith bennett. he was one of the victims of the moors murderers ian brady and myra hindley. he disappeared in 1964 in june, 12 years old at the time, while visitin

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