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good evening and welcome to bbc news. "its been a tough day" — thats how the chancellor began his speech to the party faithful at the conservative party conference this afternoon. it follows a dramatic u—turn this morning when the government suddenly dropped its plan to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax. only yesterday, the prime minister had insisted the tax cut would stay — except in scotland. but now kwasi kwarteng says criticism of the measure had become a "huge distractio...

Caroline davies, is here. we will not hear from caroline. lets get more now from caspian conran — hes an energy market economist at baringa, which is a consulting firm. as good if not better than caroline davis. thank you so much for being here with us. how surprised are you that the regulator offjim has said we face a significant cash shortage and how worried should we be. flat and how worried should we be. not surrised and how worried should we be. iirrt surprised with what we know that the ...