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Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks.

We're going to begin in Britain because of the frenzy over whether the Prime Minister can cling on to office.

You may think that I'm reading the news not from today, but from the last Conservative administration,

as they churned through leader after leader, four in their last five years in office.

But it is today's news, as Labour's Kier Stama, the man who won the last election just a couple of years ago with the promise that he bring an end to the chaos that have preceded him, appears closer to the point of eviction.

Dozens of Labour members of Parliament were up to considerably more than 80, as I speak to you, have called for Stama to go.

Four junior ministers have resigned.

We'll have more on that in a moment, but huge questions remain over what this means for a

government and a country that seems increasingly fractured and fractious and also facing huge

economic headwinds.

There's a traditional soundtrack to days like these,

from the large gaggle of journalists and camera crews penned the other side

of the relatively narrow Downing Street, the home and office of the Prime Minister,

came the penetrating sound of one particularly loud reporter yelling questions at Cabinet Ministers

as they turned up for

their scheduled weekly meeting this morning.

Is it over for Kea-Storma?

Will you ask him to step down, Mr. Lummi?

Where streeting?

Do you want to be Prime Minister?

Where's treating are you measuring the curtains?

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