Mourners Queue to See Queen’s Coffin, Scotland & Wales Cost of Living

With the queen lying in state, the level of public enthusiasm for the monarchy is being measured in a line along the Thames. Michael Walker and Owen Jones discuss what’s driving people to queue.

Plus: King Charles fires his staff; A columnist for the Times thinks we should be ‘frugal’ like the Queen; and we look at how the devolved nations are taking the cost of living crisis more seriously than Liz Truss.

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