About this episode
Following yesterday’s dramatic resignation, Boris Johnson stays on as caretaker prime minister until a new leader is selected. This, despite numerous calls for him to leave Downing Street immediately. We are live from Westminster for the latest. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is shot while on the campaign trail for upper house elections. Japan’s current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said Abe is in a ‘grave’ condition. U.S. markets are in the green ahead of today’s non-farm payroll numbers. We are also live in Berlin where the German lawmakers have given the green light to further state intervention to secure the energy sector. There are reports that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government will seek to take a stake in excess of 30 per cent to prop up beleaguered gas utility Uniper. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .