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good evening and welcome to bbc news. the contest to become the uk's next prime minister is reaching its climax tonight with the last leadership hustings in london. for the last six weeks conservative party members — who will have the final choice — have been listening to the contenders, foreign secretary liz truss and former chancellor rishi sunak. the voting closes on friday and by next tuesday the queen will appoint one of them as herfifteenth prime minister — though in a break with tradition this will take place at balmoral — and not at buckingham palace. in the past hour...

and peter coleman had this suggestion: the ongoing debate about how the bbc should interpret and demonstrate impartiality flared up again last week when emily matliss, who recently left the bbc after 20 years, gave a lecture at the edinburgh television festival. she questioned the bbc�*s decision to apologise for comments she made on newsnight in 2020 about dominic cummings breaking lockdown rules during the pandemic, which had prompted a complaint from downing street. why had the bbc immediately and publicly sought to confirm the government spokesman�*s opinion, without any kind...

if you are on a prepayment metre. this figure isn't the maximum you can be charged. and it's predicted that prices will rise even further next year. annual bills could exceed £5,000 from january 2023 and then more than £6,000 from april. worrying figures for many people but some felt the bbc was adding to that worry with the tone and extent of its reporting on what might happen but hasn't happened yet. stuart luck was one of them, writing: while i understand the need to cover rising energy bills, i am becoming very tired of the intensity of the coverage over the crisis. we all know...

one was the same. for me, the elastic snapped and that is why i sent a respectful and polite message to the prime minister this morning suggesting that he should go. mrjohnson has assembled a new cabinet, with some new faces — he wants to stay in no 10 until there is a new conservative leader. arguments have raged all day about just how long borisjohnson can stay in downing street. tonight, he is promising any big decisions will be left to the next prime minister. just over two years ago, borisjohnson was riding high, but today he leaves a country divided about his legacy. i think ...

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