While the BBC & Sky deliver wall-to-wall royal coverage, Liz Truss is planning a package of handouts to the rich. Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss bonus caps, fracking and sugar taxes.

Plus: Therese Coffey’s obsessions with commas; David Beckham appears in the queue to see the Queen lying in state; and the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda says the Caribbean nation will pursue and referendum to become a republic.

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With the queen lying in state, the level of public enthusiasm for the monarchy is being measured in a line along the Thames. Michael Walker and Owen Jones discuss what’s driving people to queue.

Plus: King Charles fires his staff; A columnist for the Times thinks we should be ‘frugal’ like the Queen; and we look at how the devolved nations are taking the cost of living crisis more seriously than Liz Truss.

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Ukrainian forces have made lightning advances, pushing back Russian forces near Kharkiv. How decisive could this prove to the course of the war? We speak to Professor Paul Rogers

Plus: the killing of unarmed man Chris Kaba by the metropolitan police; and the latest royal weirdness.

With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

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King Charles III has given his first address to the nation following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Plus: Truss’s energy plan comes as news of her Oil company donations; and a Scottish chip shop owner gets attacked for posting a video celebrating the Queen’s death.

With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

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Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 96.

With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

 

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Michael Walker and Owen Jones discuss the key events of Truss’s first full day as prime minister and her first PMQs against Keir Starmer.

Plus: Why Suella Braverman as the new home secretary could be even worse than Priti Patel; Liz Truss hires a climate disaster as an advisor; and bye bye bye Nadine Dorries.

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On the day that Liz Truss wins the Tory leadership content and thus becomes Britain’s next Prime Minister, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar discuss what a Truss premiership means.

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In one of his last speech’s as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has blamed “short-termism” for the fact that nothing works in Britain. There’s a simpler answer though: We keep being governed by Tories!

With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

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As climate change induced floods devastate Pakistan, Liz Truss has committed to expanding UK oil and gas fields and – apparently – is set to make the climate-skeptic Jacob Rees-Mogg her energy secretary.

With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.

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As the Tory leadership race enters its final week, neither candidate looks willing to take sufficient action on the cost of living crisis.

Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar discuss the latest Truss proposal to cut VAT.

Plus: Laura Kuenssberg back is back to present the BBC’s new Sunday morning show.

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