Indication this was where the thinking was going. It is surprising the conservative chancellor would to hate . These are the people who electricians, the make up artists who have just done our make up. The idea is was that an Impact Assessment done on this . Theresa may said she was a country that works for everyone and not just the privileged few. The idea that that does not extend to those people who are Self Employed seem surprising to many of us, that these are the losers of this budget, when there will be many of those who are in the bracket. Also people who are running their own businesses who are Self Employed, many of them are the backbone of this country, the small shopkeepers, the people who do all those jobs that we need them to do. The idea they will be worse off as a result of this is a surprise. The idea they will be worse off as a result of this is a surpriselj the idea they will be worse off as a result of this is a surprise. I got a tweet earlier saying the bbc, the bbc, you are so negative about the budget. I am Self Employed, i do not mind paying a little extra because the money will go to social care. That is very generous of that particular lady, but i would like to add to what caroline said about the Self Employed. It is notjust National Insurance contributions that will be increased. There is the Dividend Allowance and if you are an Incorporated Self employed person you can pay a dividend. The current allowa nce you can pay a dividend. The current allowance is £5,000 and it will be cut down to £2000. Plus the Flat Rate Vat Scheme which is rather technical, there will be a disadvantage there. For the Self Employed, and i include myself in that bracket, there are now three different measures which have made it more difficult for people to be Self Employed and to produce the incentive is to be Self Employed. Self employed and to produce the incentive is to be Self Employedm is already difficult because you do not get holiday pay, sick pay, maternity pay. But that is part of the argument. What he is doing, as well as finding money for social care, is bringing parity between those who are employed with staff jobs and contracts and those who are freelance because they have been out of kilter. In terms of what they pay, but in terms of the benefits, he says they can get away with it because they have already tinkered with the state pension. The Self Employed are now entitled to a full state pension. But if i am sick andi full state pension. But if i am sick and i work for a company, i will be paid. It is a hassle being Self Employed, not least of all doing the vat returns. I feel i deserve that bit of extra money it is a hassle being Self Employed. Bit of extra money it is a hassle being selfemployed. Lets go on to the Daily Telegraph. In this story it is the fact that before the 20 15th Election the conservatives said they would not raise taxes. In fact, they would not raise taxes. In fact, the Daily Telegraph has on the front very commitment to you from that ma nifesto, very commitment to you from that manifesto, no increases in vat, National Insurance contributions and income tax. They have broken a promise. I am afraid they have. If i may change the subject, i agree with that. You want to talk about barcelona winning . It is interesting income tax is mentioned. What did not come out in this budget is that personal allowances will go up and april £211,500 and the high rates will go up and that was not mentioned at all. If i had been Philip Hammond, i would have set i have got a nasty surprise for the Self Employed, but do not worry, i am putting personal allowances up. He mentioned the living wage is going up to £7. 50. He could have sugared the bill a bit. You are right about the tax break, but it is more than that, it is an ideological break which is something we have seen to read a good time and time again. From the moment she appointed her own cabinet and sacked all the Notting Hill Set and brought in her own people, she signalled a break with the camera an agenda which was very much in tune with George 0sborne in terms of bringing taxes down and making the state as small as possible. It seems Philip Hammond is cut from a different cloth. Allister heaths commentary in the telegraph is very much talking about this idea that there are two camps. Those who believe the state should be involved and they should raise lots of taxes and do lots of things, and those who think you should step back and keep taxes low and let other sectors take on responsibility. Theresa may and Philip Hammond believed they can get away with breaking a Policy Pledge because there is no one to pick them up because there is no one to pick them up on it. Is that the implication . The labour party are whatever and the snp have however many mps, but they can get away with it. That is right. The labour party is polling 2596, right. The labour party is polling 25 , that is extraordinary. Labour and the opposition generally are pretty good at flagging up Warning Signs. They have been going on for several weeks about the rate rises, so they were on message today. They saw that Storm Brewing and they headed it off today. They put in changes to Business Rates which have been causing such as headache to the government in these last couple of weeks. But what they did not do with this one is the opposition were not on the ball enough to see this coming, so the government did not get the Warning Signs they would often get when they could see that they are walking into trouble. When i read about the National Insurance contributions la st National Insurance contributions last week it was described as controversial. It was not as if this was not controversial. Clearly they did not make anything out of it. They have already won a by election. Copeland. It. They have already won a byelection. Copeland. In a way they should not have done. But on the front page of the guardian, Philip Hammond falls into a tax trap. What are they trying to get across . M hammond falls into a tax trap. What are they trying to get across . It is the notion that they have broken a ma nifesto the notion that they have broken a Manifesto Pledge which in political terms is a no no. They cannot be trusted. Exactly. It is you implicating and implementing something which you yourself have said is bad. In that sense it is a trap. Again we come back to who is going to pull them up on this trap . Is the Labour Party Going to be able to make enough noise on this issue that it will force Philip Hammond into a u turn. In this instance you will see more of a noise on the conservative backbenchers because they know they will harm more of their own. We have already seen rumblings in the 1922 committee, which is usually a barometer of where things stand in the Conservative Party and people like john redwood have been speaking this evening saying it was a daft idea, a tax on enterprise. That is the trap and it is if he will get out of it 110w. And it is if he will get out of it now. I do not think he will do a u turn. Most of the papers are running on the same story. That is the irony. There is something about the irony. There is something about the economy as well. Some of this money is going to social care, that was a big issue going into the budget. He has made an effort to try and deal with that, although many people are saying 3 million over the next few years, 1 million this year and 2 million later on, that is not enough. It cannot be enough, especially in the longer term dealing with an ageing population. I think funding social care and the paper they are bringing out is well overdue. The truth is we have to think very hard as we get an ageing population how we will fund social Ca Re Population how we will fund social care and the nhs. This debate has hardly begun. We need to have it. It is difficult for him if you have this kind of red as it is being portrayed. Despite van man. That is the front page. The Sun Newspaper is making the point that the chancellor is hitting the Self Employed. We have seen the number of Self Employed rise dramatically in the last few years. It is appealing to its readers, many of whom are white van men and women. They have been hit by this. The problem he has got is that Self Employed people fall into every walk of life. They will be people earning lots of money right at the top like barristers. But the problem he has got is the notion he is kind of Robbing Peter to pay paul in terms of the social ca re to pay paul in terms of the social care crisis and the problem he stuck with it he has not solved the social ca re with it he has not solved the social care crisis. 1 billion pounds this year is less than a third of what the local authorities are predicting is the black hole in the Funding Formula for this year alone. He is not solving one problem by creating another and that will be a political nightmare for him. Tax raid on the Self Employed, it is smoke and mirrors. It looks as if he is doing something and this 1 billion this year to immediately inject some cash in the system will help. I know some local authorities are pleased about that, but there has to be a Strategic Vision about where we go in terms of social care stop absolutely and this is why i will be interested to see the green paper when it comes out. There has been a debate, but it has not been pushed ha rd debate, but it has not been pushed hard enough. It is not a new issue and a lot of reports have looked into this subject, but nothing substantive has changed. Into this subject, but nothing substantive has changedlj into this subject, but nothing substantive has changed. I wrote a piece on the nhs 15 years ago saying it was not sustainable because we had an ageing population and increasingly expensive treatments and it was pushed into the long grass. Those issues will come back time and time again. That statistic is really striking, every child at this point today, one in three, will live to about 100. On that very basis. Live to about 100. On that very basis. We live to about 100. On that very basis. We have an ageing population, ageing by the minute. Basis. We have an ageing population, ageing by the minutem isa population, ageing by the minutem is a bottomless pit. This is why you have to start thinking of other means of financing that and inevitably it will be some sort of insurance system. The Daily Express. The wider implications for the budget. This is paving the way for a smooth eu exit. Cautious Philip Hammond repairs britain to break with brussels. That is really the autumn budget. Article 50 will have been triggered. Yes, absolutely. It isa been triggered. Yes, absolutely. It is a different interpretation of the same story, but they have tried to put a slightly more positive spin on it, although they have the same strapline. What they are trying to suggest is the forecasts in terms of Government Spending forecasts have been pessimistic. We know brexit looks a bit rosier than we thought, which gives us a float as we set sailfor brexit. Set which gives us a float as we set sail for brexit. Set sail which gives us a float as we set sailfor brexit. Set sail it which gives us a float as we set sail for brexit. Set sail it could happen ina sail for brexit. Set sail it could happen in a week that we trigger article 50. There are other suggestions it may not be until the end of the month. But the idea that we are going into this project is a bit of a leap in the unknown with the wind in our sales from the economy is something the Daily Express feels their readers want to read about. Because of the obrs favourable forecast for the next 12 months at least he has got a bit more petrol in the tank as well, but he will not splash it out. He will saveitin he will not splash it out. He will save it in case the headwinds do get a bit choppy. He is right to do that. Even if it was not for brexit, we need fiscal discipline in this country. We have still got a deficit of 2. 5 of the gdp. 0ur debt is about 85 of gdp, it is enormous. You would still need some austerity. But this story is interesting because the 0br has been obliged to push up its forecast to 2 . Yet again he is forecasting organisations have been caught by the fact they were all terribly negative about what was going to happen. I was saying it was going to be fine. I was a maverick. If you are a maverick and you are wrong, you are wrong. If you are a Group Thinker and you are wrong, you are right. The predictions were on article 50 being triggered onjune the 25th. And a lot were not. That is true. It would not have made any difference. We will never know. Finally, we are going to mix together the daily mail and the daily mirror and show our viewers what the front pages are saying. Here they come. The daily mirror on the left. What is so funny, Prime Minister . The daily mail, no laughing matter. Both of them are making the point that he tried to put somejokes in making the point that he tried to put some jokes in their anti tried to look beyond the spreadsheet phil policy geek label, but fundamentally this was a crucial budget in terms of the way that this government looks as it moves towards brexit. Yes, exactly. Both of them are not normal bedfellows, the daily mirror and the daily mail. But we have got the same gist. We have got theresa may and Philip Hammond laughing and the message is that the message that comes out of the budget will not go down particularly well with the readers of the daily mirror and the daily mail. That is something for the government to worry about. When you are getting papers that are diametrically opposed and they are using the same line, you basically offended both sides of the divide and that is very worrying for her as we are so and that is very worrying for her as we are so close to brexit when we will need all the support we can have. I have been told we have got to end, so there you go. It has been a pleasure looking at some of the stories behind the front pages. All of them have simply been about the budget. Dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you, seven days a week at bbc. Couk papers. If you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. Some of us had some really pleasant, springlike sunshine today, particularly across Northern England and northern ireland. This is a view from one of our Weather Watchers in enniskillen. There is more in the wa ke enniskillen. There is more in the wake of that springlike sunshine across the uk. Overnight plenty of showers rattling through scotland, clipping the north of northern ireland. Still plenty of cloud in south wales and southern england. A bit damp and drizzly in places. Still those contrasts on the way in the first part of thursday morning. Any drizzly rain will be confined to the Channel Islands and cornwall during the day. As we move northwards we are getting into brighter sky. Not necessarily clear blue sky, there will be areas of patchy cloud around, but we will see some sunshine them. Actually feel to begin the day the further north you are and some showers in scotland. A lot of these will fade with a few northern scotland. The risk of sunshine, just occasionally disappearing behind the cloud, and those temperatures widely getting into double figures. Scotland and the eastern side of england see lower temperatures on thursday night. In the west outbreaks of rain, a mild nightand ill start to the day on friday. That cloud and Rain Moves Northwards On Friday and behind it we keep plenty of cloud. It will look very different on friday, but it will still feel mild. Going into the weekend there are gaps between the weather systems, so that means occasionally there will bea that means occasionally there will be a band of cloud and rain moving through quickly over the weekend and then you get something drier and sunnier. By sunday it is a bit cooler heading our way, but not cold. It is a changeable picture this weekend. We will see Sunshine And Rain at some stage. This is bbc news. Im clive myrie. The headlines at 11pm the chancellor has been accused of breaking a conservative Manifesto Pledge after increasing National Insurance bills for the Self Employed. But Philip Hammond insists his first budget will put the economy on a solid footing. As we start our negotiations to exit the european union, this budget takes forward our plan to prepare britain for a brighterfuture. In response, the labour leaderjeremy corbyn, said the budget was built on unfairness, and provided tax breaks for the few and Public Service cuts for the many. Utter complacency about the crisis facing our Public Services and complacent about the reality of daily life for millions of people in this country. And coming up in newsnight, lots to talk about on this budget