Nick Robinson

ANDREW PIERCE: In the Malmaison Birmingham hotel, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng appeared uncharacteristically stumbling, and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng looked uncharacteristically subdued. Hours before, he had handed the Prime Minister a draft of his speech for the following day, in which he promised to 'keep the course' on the government's contentious proposals to eliminate the 45p top rate of income tax, despite the widespread resistance. Yet, there were already signals that the policy was doomed. In truth, Kwarteng had been growing dissatisfied. He had frozen the country's electricity bills at a cost of perhaps £65 billion, and even dropped a penny off the basic rate of income tax. Any of these will benefit everyday people, not millionaires.

After a 'challenging and persistent war against prostate cancer,' which was diagnosed in November 2017, the former BBC Breakfast presenter died on August 31 aged 66. Mr Turnbull's two sons and son-in-law were among the six pallbearers carrying his oak coffin, which was decorated with a red rose and purple bouquet, into the cathedral. On Friday afternoon, family and close friends, as well as his BBC Breakfast co-hosts, attended a private service at Holy Trinity church in Blythburgh. Ms Reid made it to Suffolk just hours after queuing through the night Sian Williams, who anchored BBC Breakfast with Turnbull for more than a decade, told the PA news agency: "I think it's a day of sadness and reflection, and I hope there will be a moment to honor his life because he was a wonderful friend and a wonderful man." Naga Munchetty, a BBC Breakfast presenter who appeared on the red carpet with Turnbull for many years, said, 'The audience was all that mattered, and all that matters was irrelevant, and Bill never forgot it,' and he was a joy to sit beside.'

After being quoted without attribution, BBC presenter Nick Robinson has apologised. In a landmark article published in 1965 following Sir Winston Churchill's death, the late Daily Mail journalist coined the term. "Two rivers snaked through London tonight, one is made of people,' he wrote, referring to the former prime minister's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall for three days beginning at January 26. Robinson, 58, described the line to see the late Queen as a "vast river of people" on Monday's BBC Radio 4 Today show. 'This morning, London has not one but two rivers,' he said. The former BBC political editor later posted an apology on Twitter, saying he'didn't know' the metaphor's origins and'should have'.