Can i think you and your team at the conservative Central Office for doing a fantastic job . Its been a team effort and shown the conservative family at its best. If i could make one plea as a backbencher, can we be kinder to the next Prime Minister then weve been to the current Prime Minister . [applause] without further delay, im going to hand you over to the one for cochair to the wonderful cochair of the committee. [applause] thank you very much, charles. On the 24th of may, the Prime Minister, the right honorable theresa may, announced that she would be standing down as leader of our party on the seventh of june. Over the past 46 days, the 1922 committee organized five ballots of members in parliament, and then worked with the Party Chairmen and Electoral Reform services to present the final two candidates. They are qualifying nubbers of the conservative and unionist parties that can vote for our new leader. I want to echo charles thanks to brandon, the party board, and the party
Surveillance. What a week we had on the markets last week. This is the tension as we get onto monday. This is what im looking at in terms of stocks. They are gaining some 1. 6 . We are also seeing futures in the u. S. Pointing to a higher open. Things can reverse quite quickly and change quite quickly. Downan see the vix index some 10 and eurodollar, 1. 2276. If there is an infection beyond equities and the vix, it would be in credit markets. Also coming up, we talk markets and last weeks correction with Morgan Stanley. Later on, we talked to eric nielsen, chief economist at unicredit. Plus, we talk ecb and brexit. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Is readye u. S. Says it to engage in Nuclear Talks with north korea. Vice president mike pence dubbed the new strategy maximum pressure and engagement at the same time. The comments signal a shift in policy after they agreed to pursue a dialogue with pyongyang at the winter olympics. Budget director Mick Mulvaney has warned