new cabinet later today. one of the most pressing issues she will face is how to deal with soaring energy bills. details are beginning to emerge of a plan that could see energy bills frozen at their current levels for 18 months. we ll hear from voters about what they want from the new prime minister. i feel like there needs to be somebody who is a little bit more honest, a bit more transparent and has a goal that is going to make the world a better place for this generation because, as a mother, i m really worried with the cost of living, with everything. good afternoon once again from downing street on the day a new prime minister is installed at number 10, succeeding borisjonhnson, who left office this morning. liz truss the new conservative leader elected yesterday saw her majesty the queen at balmoral castle in aberdeenshire earlier today and accepted the invitation to form a government. she s expected to give her first address as prime minister here in downing street
stalemate, all tied up to the post brexit situation. the so called northern ireland protocol which deals with trading issues in northern ireland. so they are looking at how to try to fix those issues. but it is really not clear at all how that will pan out. so the situation there, as i mentioned, is multilayered. and with the protocol itself, well, there is no real consensus on the way ahead so far. the european union very clear, they are saying, look, the uk signed this protocol in good faith and they knew exactly, say the eu, what it meant and what it would lead to and what it involved. so that is it. it doesn t seem to be a lot of appetite to go back to the negotiating table. we shall see. i mentioned the war in ukraine. obviously, that is the big foreign policy challenge of the moment. so with that in mind and given the prominent role boris johnson has played, i want to talk
different views around policies relating to abortion for example and liberal policies and they also have different views around protocol itself, so people made a decision coming into this election as to whether there would be a question of the protocol connected to the future of the union was a primary concern, whether it about a functioning executive in assembly being prepared for the contemporary challenges of society today and so hence we saw the benefits of fragmentation amongst moderate unionism going to either alliance party or that hard dup position. and so i would not necessarily see the result today, it is a very sick of confession pain but does not necessarily mean a surge. the contemporary challenges remain all the same. we can speak now to dr brian feeney,
lisbon. lord to trade. yesterday, in a speech in lisbon, lord frost, the brexit minister. lisbon, lord frost, the brexit minister, called for the northern ireland minister, called for the northern ireland protocol to be entirely replaced ireland protocol to be entirely replaced by something completely new and completely different. what we are going and completely different. what we are going to get it today is the eu response are going to get it today is the eu response. they are going to propose some response. they are going to propose some pretty major tweaks to the protocol, some pretty major tweaks to the protocol, but keeping the protocol itself protocol, but keeping the protocol itself in protocol, but keeping the protocol itself in place. they would just change itself in place. they would just change how it is applied in practice change how it is applied in practice. the eu feels that is going quite practice. the eu feels that is going quite a practice.