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Members of Australia's Liberal Party call for a vote to oust their leader, Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Julie Noce reports.
Scottish National Party National Secretary, Lorna Finn, announces Humza Yousaf as the winner of the party's internal leaderhsip contest and as Scotland's new first minister. SOUNDBITE
Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the trailblazing first female speaker of the US House of Representatives, says that she will step down from the party leadership when Republicans take control of the chamber in January. "For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect," says the 82-year-old Pelosi, who first became speaker in 2007 and later presided over both impeachments of Donald Trump. SOUNDBITE
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, is vague about whether one or two candidates would be likely to run for the Conservative Party leadership after the resignation of Liz Truss. “The party rules say there will be two candidates unless there is only one candidate" he says. SOUNDBITE
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench 1922 Committee, announces that Rishi Sunak and Liza Truss have made it to the final ballot of Conservative members to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as the next party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with Penny Mordaunt knocked out. Sunak led the last of five ballots of Tory lawmakers, winning 137 votes, ahead of Truss on 113, while junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt was eliminated after getting 105 votes. IMAGES
British ministers arrive at 10 Downing Street for a cabinet meeting the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a no-confidence vote. 211 Tory party lawmakers supported Johnson and 148 voted against him. IMAGES
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