where her majesty will invite her to form a government. liz truss will be the 56th prime minister of the united kingdom the third female occupant of number ten. she has promised to tackle the energy bill crisis in her first few days in office. her plan to be revealed on thursday is likely to include a freeze in bills. canadian police say one of the two men charged in connection with ten fatal stabbings has been found dead. the other is still on the run. good morning from downing street where later today, liz truss will enter the famous door at number ten as the country s new prime minister, following her election yesterday as leader of the conservative party. the man she ll take over from, borisjohnson, is now on his way to balmoral to meet the queen and formally resign from office. earlier this morning, here in downing street, he delivered a farewell speech extolling his own record as prime minister and calling on the conservative party to get behind his successor. l
her predecessor, borisjohnson, left downing street earlier this morning. we have some in depth analysis of the claims he made in his final speech later in the programme. in that final address at the downing street podium, he also urged the conservative party to unite behind his successor. it s time for politics to be over, folks. it s time for us all to get behind liz truss and her team, and her programme, and deliver for the people of this country. and behind me, here on downing street, we ve seen ministers we see brandon lewis going into number ten there. we heard boris johnson earlier, calling for conservatives to get behind liz truss and her team. and we re learning more about what her team is as the evening goes on because liz truss is in the process of appointing cabinet, that s why we re seeing a range of conservatives going in through the door and bit by bit, we are learning who liz truss s top will be. top team will be. we are getting details all the time of liz t
and i sat in the back, working out the swings with a calculator and a pad of paper, which i then passed him a piece of paper so that he could sound terribly informed about the swings in each constituency. i also spent a bit of time clock watching output, both the bbc and itv and others, for a private company that was just assessing whether or not they were meeting the election guidelines and giving all the parties a fair crack at the whip. which is why you ve always been so intrinsically fair at election time. it s hard wired into you! but i know that this is probably the first. well, i know for a fact this is the first ever uk general election where the party leaders have had to comment on the fact that a former us president has just been found guilty of a felony. yeah. cos it s never happened before. it is just sort of. when you say it like that, itjust. itjust takes your breath away. and, yes, they ve all had to comment. right, and we will discuss what they ve been saying,
The World Economic forum in davos to get the inside track on how the worlds biggest institutions are dealing with the challenges of Cyber Security. The chief Technology Officer at Bank Of America will be joining us. Also Cambridge University is recruiting a professor of lego. So we want to know if the ubiquitous Building Blocks are now more than just childs play . Are you a Master Builder . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Today, for the first time ever, a Freight Train from china will arrive in the uk. It wasnt intended as a symbolic statement, but with the british Prime Minister now confirming the uk must leave the european Single Market, the trains arrival does illustrate that post Brexit Britain may need to look further afield for its trading partners. Theresa may used her much anticipated speech yesterday to announce the uks priorities for upcoming brexit negotiations. Leaving the Single Market means britain will lose the right to trade with the European Union without
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