The results for the Conservative Ballot, voting for our new Prime Minister is to be announced at midday. With Liz Truss expected to win the vote, there have been talks of a new ‘support package’, to help with the rising energy costs. Today’s Nick Robinson spoke to Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary from 2005-11, as well as Paul Johnson, the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Shanker Singham, who was trade advisor to Liz Truss when she was UK trade secretary, and a fellow of the free market the Institute of Economic Affairs & is CEO of Competere.

(Image, Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss appear on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show in London, Britain, September 4, 2022. Credit: Jeff Overs/BBC/Handout via REUTERS)