and he would be standing up against rishi sunakfor sure. and he would be standing up against rishi sunak for sure. and with the potential for a rishi sunak for sure. and with the potentialfor a penny rishi sunak for sure. and with the potential for a penny more to enter the fray. but that is not to be. so after declaring just a few —— penny morton. borisjohnson has now announced he will not be standing i will quote that one more time for you he had said, "this would simply not do the right thing to do as you can't govern effectively unless you have eight united party in parliament. that newsjust have eight united party in parliament. that news just coming to us. our political correspondent is here with us for the bed that story. well, dramatic development. one that has been speculated about for the people have been talking about the idea that borisjohnson might be reluctant to go for with the best unless he was very clear that he would be in a commanding position was at and what has become absolutely obvious over the weekend is that he's no

number of figures who actually are quite surprising, key allies of borisjohnson, who were angry at rishi sunakfor for helping borisjohnson, who were angry at rishi sunakfor helping bring down his government but who have now decided that he is the only man who can lead them forward. however, the big question remains unanswered at the moment and we will find out in the moment and we will find out in the next hour, can penny mordaunt get that 100 figure which would push this potentially to a run—off among conservative mps? speaking to her campaign in the last few minutes, they say it is going to go down to they say it is going to go down to the wire and it's extremely close. they claim to have more than 90 backers this afternoon, although we can't verify those figures and the number of mps publicly backing her is considerably lower. it is under 30. team sunak say they are continuing to talk to mps and taking nothing for granted and they will find out in the next hour whether he is to become prime minister within the next day or so. but this afternoon, nobody knows for certain whether ms mordaunt wil

in the former pm is prepared to take on rishi sunakfor the the former pm is prepared to take on rishi soul of the tories. what is this talking about? it's on the --aer what is this talking about? it's on the paper says — what is this talking about? it's on the paper says quite _ what is this talking about? it's on the paper says quite notably - what is this talking about? it's on l the paper says quite notably talking a borisjohnson here, making it out to be a contest between boris johnson and rishi sunak rather than penny mordaunt rishi sunak. ldefinidn johnson and rishi sunak rather than penny mordaunt rishi sunak. which is wh i think penny mordaunt rishi sunak. which is why i think some _ penny mordaunt rishi sunak. which is why i think some people _ penny mordaunt rishi sunak. which is why i think some people started - penny mordaunt rishi sunak. which is why i think some people started off i why i think some people started off the afternoon when the leadership for scott _ the afternoon when the leadership for scott announced. it is true that in terms _ for scott announced. it is

boris�* supporters blame rishi sunakfor the events that happened in the summer and rishi sunak supportersuestion about can someone come through the middle and when that? i think the blunt reality of this is there is no favourite candidate and whoever wins this election in a weak�* time, it will lead to disunity that already exists and i expect the only result of that is a general election ahead of when it is supposed to happen. which many --eole are supposed to happen. which many people are calling _ supposed to happen. which many people are calling for— supposed to happen. which many people are calling for across - supposed to happen. which many people are calling for across the i people are calling for across the country, notjust politicians but voters as well. a final thought from you if you would come as a communications expert, what would you be advising him, in terms of what his key message should be if he does decide to stand? weill. what his key message should be if he does decide to stand?— does decide to stand? well, i wouldn't be. _ does decide to stand? well, i wouldn't be. bo

said it was time that while he supports and respects, it is time for her to row back in behind rishi sunakfornd rishi sunak for the good of the party and unity going forward. if that happens, how would you feel? figs unity going forward. if that happens, how would you feel? $5 i happens, how would you feel? as i said, it's happens, how would you feel? sis i said, it's important happens, how would you feel? is i said, it's important that people give the opportunity for there to be a balance. we have had terrible turmoilfor the a balance. we have had terrible turmoil for the last three months and actually a disgrace, if i'm honest and anotherfour and actually a disgrace, if i'm honest and another four days of indecision about who will be the next prime minister and the ballot will be done by then, if it does go to the members. and i think it is worth it for the sake of that sort of democracy within the party. but, look, i hold my hands up. i not always backing the person who becomes leader. i know that. kenneth clarke in 1997, i thought he would have been best at the time but william hague got i

and this senior conservative backbencher who backed rishi sunakfor prime minister is sceptical, too.quite possible that he will simply- have to come forward - with a further rowing back on the tax announcements. and, remember, the reason the government says it's doing all of this is to turbo—charge the economy, but one economic group told mps that's not going to happen any time soon. we're not going to hit medium term 2.5% growth in this economy at the moment. this is something that's going to have to be nurtured, as i've said to this committee a number of times, over decades. tonight, liz truss saw the king for the prime minister's usual weekly chat, or audience. take a listen to their pleasantries. your majesty. back again. lovely to see you again. dear, oh dear. it is a great pleasure. now, i never know how... chris mason reporting there. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come in the programme... we will tell you how the scientist in australia have taught lab grown brain cells how to play an iconic video game. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapor

the local mp, miriam cates, says she has huge admiration for borisjohnson, but she's backing rishi sunakforred about getting support soon. the main thing is energy bills at the moment, that's what's crippling us. our quarterly has gone up from £270 to £990 for three months. for a little shop like this, it's difficult. is that electric and gas? just electric, we've got no gas, so it's crippling us big time, so stuff like that needs sorting out. whatever does happen over the next few days, it's certainly giving people a topic to chew over here. jessica lane, bbc news, in penistone. and we'll find out how the conservative leadership race and many other stories are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. our guestsjoining me tonight are author and journalist emma woolf, and martin bentham, home affairs editor at the london evening standard. stay with us for that. two labour mayors are calling on the government to immediately increase funding for the train operators, transpennine express and northern in the north of england, because of what they've descri

mrjohnson down, we can argue that, not getting into that argument, that's what they said, and blame rishi sunakforrishi sunak for the fact that public spending and taxation is as high as it is, and they don't want to see him becoming prime minister. therefore, we are asking ourselves whether or not either of these two persons could unite the conservative party. whether or not the divisions of the party will be perpetuated as well be on the divisions of this contest, and also, if either of these candidates can provide the country with a stable and effective government, and can retain the confidence of the house of commons. the edge of the cliff that is facing the conservative party at the moment is whether or not its internal antagonisms is putting at risk of persistent —— of precipitating the one thing they do not want, which is the general election. the one thing that has to be in place is a government that the comments are willing to keep in place and are willing to keep in place and are willing to keep in place and are willing to allow to govern with a reasonable degree of effectiveness. we are

the local mp, miriam cates, says she has huge admiration for borisjohnson, but she's backing rishi sunakfore business owners say they're more bothered about getting support soon. the main thing is energy bills at the moment, that's what's crippling us. 0ur quarterly�*s gone up from £270 to £990 for three months. for a little shop like this, it's difficult. is that electric and gas? just electric, we've got no gas, so it's crippling us big time, so stuff like that needs sorting out. whatever does happen over the next few days, it's certainly giving people a topic to chew over here. jessica lane, bbc news, in penistone. president volodymyr zelensky has denounced renewed russian attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure as an attempt to break his country. he said the world had to stop the terror. kyiv says almost one and a half million households are without power following another barrage by russian missiles on civilian energy facilities. the national electricity operator said the latest strikes could have caused more damage than the intense bombardment lasting several days earlier this mont

and this senior conservative backbencher who backed rishi sunakfor prime minister is sceptical, too.y, myself included, who believe that it is quite - possible that he will simply have to come forward with _ a further rowing back - on the tax announcements. and, remember, the reason the government says it's doing all of this is to turbo—charge the economy, but one economic group told mps that's not going to happen any time soon. we're not going to hit medium term 2.5% growth in this economy at the moment. this is something that's going to have to be nurtured, as i've said to this committee a number of times, over decades. tonight, liz truss saw the king for the prime minister's usual weekly chat or audience. take a listen to their pleasantries... your majesty. back again. lovely to see you again. dear oh dear. to what could he have been referring? i am told it could be a verbal tic to move the conversation along, but we will never know because the camera moved away and that most discreet of conversations began, but what was less discreet was the discussion between the prime minister

so you won't attack rishi sunakfor being rich?for being rich but i will attack him if he doesn't use the wealth in a way that is responsible, we talk about rich people paying a bit more and try to push the burden of what was a couple of weeks ago and a budget that absolutely decimated our economy and now there is a black hole, do not make working people who are already paying more through their mortgages and through the cost of living, pay for that mistake. it is about what he prioritises as a prime minister and shows that he understands what it is like for other people. i don't expect him not to be rich. so, it's clear, he's rich, but not to be targeting the poor. let's go back to the speech you made that too few people understand what it is like. you, clearly, given your background, do understand what it is like. i was reading something you wrote about your mum, who of course had mental health problems as well as being in poverty. yes. coming home with a tin of dog food was, thinking she was bringing a treat. my mum can't read o

on the labour side in the months, maybe a year or two to come, who desperately want to attack rishi sunakfor, who wants to say that he isn't really a symbol of black and asian people making it in this country, and who want to get out on the streets or onto the picket lines to protest against tory cuts. angela rayner and keir starmer are trying to hold them back to appeal to what they think are middle ground voters. it's going to be quite a challenge. thanks for watching. hello. we've seen some exceptionally mild weather over the past few days. in fact, yesterday was the warmest 29th of october on record. we had temperatures just shy of 23 celsius in london. today, it is still mild, not as warm as yesterday. and it's also quite breezy, unsettled with scattered showers around. low pressure is sitting towards the north west of the uk at the moment and plenty of showers and weather fronts rotating around that. proximity of the isobars shows that it is going to feel quite windy, but the winds are coming in from the south or southwest so again, still a very mild direction with that air flow. monda

the local mp, miriam cates, says she has huge admiration for borisjohnson, but she's backing rishi sunakforred about getting support soon. the main thing is energy bills at the moment, that's what's crippling us. 0ur quarterly has gone up from £270 to £990 for three months. for a little shop like this, it's difficult. is that electric and gas? just electric, we've got no gas, so it's crippling us big time. so stuff like that needs sorting out. whatever does happen over the next few days, it's certainly giving people a topic to chew over here. jessica lane, bbc news, in penistone. as mentioned earlier, more than half of tory mps have gone public with their support and there is now an update on our tally. rishi sunak has passed the key threshold of 100 backers, borisjonnson is 53 and penny mourdant has 23. worth pointing out that these numbers are the ones that bbc can verify. 0ther the ones that bbc can verify. other news organisations might have come to different totals. but that means that 156 conservative mps have yet to say who they will be voting for with a total of 357 tory members of

there were some who were not convinced by her economic strategy in the first place and had backed rishi sunakforto do quite a reassurance job. example. she has to do quite a reassurancejob. we example. she has to do quite a reassurance job. we start to see a little bit of an attempt to do that this morning with the admission that she and kwasi kwarteng could perhaps have handled it better. there is an issue that interest rates are going up around the world and we did have to face that and we too had to deal with it. but i do want to say to people, i understand their worries about what has happened this week, and i do, i do stand by the package we announced, and i stand by the fact that we announced it quickly because we had to act. but i do accept we should have laid the ground better. i do accept that. i have learned from that. i have learned from that and i will make sure that in future in future we do a betterjob of laying the ground. in the next few days liz truss has the opportunity, she hopes, to try to explain her plans better. we will not get a lot of detail about how she plans to pay fo

the local mp, miriam cates, says she has huge admiration for borisjohnson, but she's backing rishi sunakfort getting support soon. the main thing is energy bills at the moment, that's what's crippling us. our quarterly has gone up from £270 to £990 for three months. for a little shop like this, it's difficult. is that electric and gas? just electric, we've got no gas, so it's crippling us big time. so stuff like that needs sorting out. whatever does happen over the next few days, it's certainly giving people a topic to chew over here. jessica lane, bbc news, in penistone. hate crimes recorded against lgbt people are the highest they've ever been, according to new figures for england and wales. more than 30—thousand homophobic and transgender hate crimes were recorded in the 12 months until march of this year — and many more are thought to go unreported. our lgbt and identity correspondent, lauren moss, has been finding out more. my very turning up somewhere is something that's enough to create anger in people. shea is transgender. she says she and her family experience some form of abuse al

if the parliamentary party suddenly injected liz truss and put in rishi sunakfor example or possiblyjeremy feel there had been a coup in parliament, so they have to run with somebody who can carry the credibility of the members. if you look back at the time of the leadership election, to me that has to be penny mordaunt, because it was quite clear the members were polling very high in favour of penny mordaunt, and she almost made it into the last two. so i suspect a deal will be done where there are a few people put together who can come together as a sort of dream ticket, but to my money, penny would have to lead that because i can't see the members accepting jeremy hunt or rishi sunak is the person at the top. do you think in two years' time when we have a general election, if it is not sooner, that it's going to be a disaster for the conservatives regardless? it’s disaster for the conservatives regardless?— regardless? it's clearly going to be a disaster _ regardless? it's clearly going to be a disaster if _ regardless? it's clearly going to be a disaster if they - regardless? it's clea

the local mp, miriam cates, says she has huge admiration for borisjohnson, but she's backing rishi sunakforin thing is energy bills at the moment, that's what's crippling us. our quarterly has gone up from £270 to £990 for three months. for a little shop like this, it's difficult. is that electric and gas? just electric, we've got no gas, so it's crippling us big time. so stuff like that needs sorting out. whatever does happen over the next few days, it's certainly giving people a topic to chew over here. jessica lane, bbc news, in penistone. currently the bbc estimates 186 out of 357 tory mps have gone public with their support. as you heard, rishi sunak has passed the key threshold of 100 backers, borisjohnson has 50, and penny mordaunt has 22. it's worth pointing out that these are the numbers the bbc can verify — others may have different information. our political correspondent damian grammaticasjoins me now. those are the official numbers but what are people saying unofficially and what do we know? in what are people saying unofficially and what do we know?— what are people saying uno

that looks likely to be rishi sunakfor the attempts it seems on borisjohnson�*s part to get her on board get her to back out of the contest at this point has it worked. and indeed her supporters are indicating that they are far more likely to go to rishi sunak than they are borisjohnson. interesting. it seems the penny mordaunt and borisjohnson say interesting. it seems the penny mordaunt and boris johnson say we mordaunt and borisjohnson say we ask for their votes rather than them asking for us. they are both still in theirfight, asking for us. they are both still in their fight, they would think. yes. and jostling put for position. boris johnson's team yes. and jostling put for position. borisjohnson�*s team are adamant they have the numbers now, they do have 100 plus mps ready to go and nominate the former prime minister for what would be in extraordinary political comeback, even if he were to formally enter the race never mind it. penny mordaunt supporters talked with some confidence and enthusiasm about her but they are not as sure, they can't be sure at this point that they have th

the local mp, miriam cates, says she has huge admiration for borisjohnson, but she's backing rishi sunakfore more bothered about getting support soon. the main thing is energy bills at the moment, that's what's crippling us. our quarterly has gone up from £270 to £990 for three months. for a little shop like this, it's difficult. is that electric and gas? just electric, we've got no gas, so it's crippling us big time. so stuff like that needs sorting out. whatever does happen over the next few days, it's certainly giving people a topic to chew over here. jessica lane, bbc news, in penistone. joining me now is our political correspondent damian grammaticas. we talked about numbers about who has how many backers, but it's all of that sort of put your finger in the air and of that sort of put your finger in the airand see of that sort of put your finger in the air and see where it lands at the air and see where it lands at the moment. the air and see where it lands at the moment-— the air and see where it lands at the moment. �* , ., ., ., the moment. there's more to it than that, actually. th

forecast of the public finances is an update in this case of the one from the spring, coming from rishi sunakforis is an ongoing process, so normally, over the next three weeks or so there will be continual refining of there will be continual refining of the forecast in conjunction with departments and the chancellor will be starting to think about any measures he wants to take and the fiscal event that accompanies the final publication. there is another version of the forecast which would normally be sent to the chancellor in about three weeks�* time known as the pre—measures forecast and then thatis the pre—measures forecast and then that is normally locked so its a stable base for him to work from, and the chancellor defines what measures he wants to introduce over the next couple of weeks and documents get written and the final forecast then gets published. the thing i would want to inject at this point, which is very important, i think is that this first draft forecast will almost certainly reveal a substantial deterioration in the prospects of the public finances in the medium term since m

boris' supporters blame rishi sunakfor what happened in the summerand blame rishi sunakfor what happenedn the summer and rishi sunak�*s supporters will never support boris johnson so the truth is there is a stand—off. there is a question, can someone come through the middle and when that? meanwhile, parties of opposition in england, scotland and wales have called for an immediate general election. we don't have to go on like this, we can have stability and to have an economy that works for working people, that's why we need a general election. i'm samantha simmonds. in other news this morning: a warning — the health and social care system in england is �*gridlocked' and unable to cope with the demand, putting vulnerable people at risk. president zelensky says russian forces have planted mines at a dam in kakhovka, upstream from the city of kherson, as the ukrainian offensive gets closer. oscar—winning actor kevin spacey has sexual assault allegations dismissed by a jury in new york. the chess grandmaster hans niemann sues rival magnus carlsen, after the five—time world champion accused h

fascinating, talking about loyalty, some tory mps will not forgive rishi sunakfor pulling some tory mpsry mps are keen to move on as quickly as possible, from the last seven weeks, and try to paint a whole new picture. it is not like dallas. — paint a whole new picture. it is not like dallas, this _ paint a whole new picture. it is not like dallas, this isn't _ paint a whole new picture. it is not like dallas, this isn't bobby - paint a whole new picture. it is not like dallas, this isn't bobby ewingl like dallas, this isn't bobby ewing in the shower and it turned out the whole series was a dream, this happened, and it cost the country dear. i happened, and it cost the country dear. �* . . happened, and it cost the country dear. �* ., dear. i didn't watch dallas or i will not engage _ dear. i didn't watch dallas or i will not engage with - dear. i didn't watch dallas or i will not engage with your- dear. i didn't watch dallas or i i will not engage with your back... you are too young! it will be on a streaming server somewhere on catch up! streaming server somewhere on catch u -' stream

first and foremost congratulations to rishi sunakfor becoming the first british asian feminist in theon so many levels, as we have been reflecting. do you feel that i him. on so many levels, as we have been reflecting. do you feel that he | been reflecting. do you feel that he can and will unite the party? because only a few weeks ago we were talking about the fact that the party didn't want him. they wanted liz truss and you were one of the people who voted for her so what is different now, only a matter of weeks later?— different now, only a matter of weeks later? ~ ~ ., ., weeks later? well, i know, i voted for liz truss _ weeks later? well, i know, i voted for liz truss like _ weeks later? well, i know, i voted for liz truss like a _ weeks later? well, i know, i voted for liz truss like a lot _ weeks later? well, i know, i voted for liz truss like a lot of _ for liz truss like a lot of conservative party members and at the time she did present some sensible policies for 45 days we have seen she tried to implement her plan for growth too quickly in the markets didn't react to that

your - colleagues had not i may not forgive rishi sunak for colleagues had not i may not forgive rishi sunakforl businesses, they know he will do _ for small businesses, they know he will do the — for small businesses, they know he will do the same again and they also want that— will do the same again and they also want that sensible economic plan which _ want that sensible economic plan which means that britain is not paying — which means that britain is not paying any more than it absolutely needs— paying any more than it absolutely needs to _ paying any more than it absolutely needs to in terms of pain that interest— needs to in terms of pain that interest on our national debt. interest — interest on our national debt. interest rates will not rise any further — interest rates will not rise any further than they absolutely have two and — further than they absolutely have two and he has that man.- further than they absolutely have two and he has that man. should he aet a fresh two and he has that man. should he get a fresh mandate _ two and he has that man. should he get a fresh mandate from _