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Good morning for the financial times.

Today is Friday, October 21st, and this is your FT News Briefing.

Let's trust resigned as the UK's Prime Minister yesterday after weeks of turmoil.

There is a lot riding on the next government.

There's no magic solution. I think that's what we've found.

And as the politicians hash it out, British people are struggling.

We just realized that we can't continue to afford to pay the mortgage and the heating bills,

the gas bills. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

She spent just 44 days in office. Liz Trust will go down in history as the country's

shortest serving Prime Minister. She'll stay on until a new leader is chosen,

and the UK's ruling conservative party is scrambling to do that in the next week.

Here's the FT's Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard with some of the contenders.

Modern, who is currently in the cabinet.

And then the surprise candidate, possible candidate, is Boris Johnson,

who is on holiday at the moment in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.

So the problem you've got is that there are still a lot of MPs.

She's supposed to Boris Johnson has still angry that he was forced out of power.

You've got quite a few supporters of the United Form of Chancellor.

You've got a lot of right when your sketchics you aren't,

some fans of Sunag. There are a lot of cliques forming. There's a lot of bad blood.

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