Good evening. The chancellor has been putting his final touches to his budget as he prepares to unveil it tomorrow it could well be the last one before the General Election. What is now expected is a 2p cut to National Insurance and another freeze on fuel duty. But could jeremy hunt go even further . Our Political Editor chris mason is here with his thoughts but before we hear from Chris Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam has been weighing up how much room for Manoevre The Chancellor has. The chancellor is hoping to use his Big Red Box Moment tomorrow to declare a definitive economic Turning Point after years of crisis and shocks. Certainly the path and forecast for Inflation Looks like that. Look at this inflation is falling back from its Energy Shock Highs towards the Bank Of England target. On the other hand, its a little tricky to talk about a Turning Point when as you see here, the economy just started shrinkng at the end of last year you can see a shallow recession, but one noneth
But he says you never know what the future holds. The norwegian s contracted to the club until 2027 but real madrid are thought to be long term admirers. Haaland, whos preparing to face Fc Copenghagen in the Champions League tomorrow has scored 80 goals in 84 appearances for city including 28 this season. Therell probably be be a massive headline. You never know what the future brings, but again, im happy. You can write this, but you can always have to write Everything Else before. Im happy, and yeah, thats what i want to do. Its a huge night in the Champions League for Thomas Tuchel and his Bayern Munich side, who have it all to do against lazio with a place in the Quarer Finals at stake. They trail 1 0 at the halfway stage of that last 16 tie. Bayern are ten points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the bundesliga with ten games to go, their season could effectively be over if it doesnt go their way later. But tuchel, whos leaving at the end of the season, says theyll give it everything. I l
It took 19 years to bring iain packer tojustice, leaving him free to attack other women. Emma caldwell s family lawyer says she was failed by a toxic culture within the police of misogyny and corruption. Our correspondent steve godden is at the First Ministers residence, bute house. Like bring us the latest. The Caldwell Family arrived here around ten minutes ago and have gone into the building behind me. We expect the building behind me. We expect the meeting to last around an hour. It is an opportunity for Margaret Caldwell, Emma Caldwell s mum, to ask First Minister humza yousaf and the justice ask First Minister humza yousaf and thejustice minister, to hold a Public Inquiry, that she has been calling for since iain packer was convicted of murdering Emma Caldwell and sexually and physically assaulting 21 other women. After that verdict Police Scotland apologised for failings in the original inquiry and one of the questions the Caldwell Family want the Public Inquiry to answer is why
Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea
record high, and the office for budget responsibility says it would represent the largest fall in living standards since the 19505. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. these reforms will save around two million self employed people an average of £350 a yearfrom april. better than nothing. tuning into the autumn statement at walthamstow market. a good place to test the mood. pensioners seemed happy. him increasing pension, that s good for me. and young workers like the rise in the minimum wage too. 10% more i m going to win i m going to earn. yeah. who wouldn t like it? but other workers said the cut to national insurance isn t enough. not with the way things are at the moment. the cost of living is too expensive. £450, divide that by 12, divide it by the family that you ve got. is it enough? i don t think so. here are the key details. first, that national insurance cut. it s going from 12% to ten for all employees from january. the self employed will see a