today s budget might have left you with a bit more money in your pocket but some of the public services you rely on will face big spending cuts. so is it a vote winner? mr chancellor of the exchequer. cheering it was the last spring budget before the next election. tonight we ll interrogate whyjeremy hunt made the announcements he did. and interrrogate one of his treasury ministers. overall, the tax burden is going up. correct? the tax burden is still too high, overall. absolutely. and it s going up? we ll also talk to labour s campaign chief. we ll talk live to representatives of business and public sector workers and our politics panel is here to help us decode it all and tell us when we might be going to the polls. today s was a budget that was as much about what comes next as about what comes now. there s another 2p cut in national insurance that will kick in soon but there s also the growing realisation that whoever wins the next election, they will face a daunting cho
following the resignation of ex conservative mp chris skidmore. the former minister stood down last month over the government s energy plans. the other by election in wellingborough, was called following a recall petition in the northamptonshire constituency. it was prompted by former tory mp peter bone s suspension from the house of commons for six weeks, for breaching the mps code of conduct. well, there has aleady been what we could describe as some expectation management from both the conservatives and labour party who issued statements after the polls had closed. the tory one said. we have fought robust campaigns on the ground in both of these seats with local candidates. but these by elections were always going to be hard. the government of the day rarely win by elections . whilst the labour statement said we were always aware of the challenge ahead of us with the large conservative majorities in both seats, which are both beyond our target list for a general elect
editorial report, i m paul gigot. we begin with a busy week in presidential politics as the fall if from special counsel robert hur s report continues amid news that the white house clashed with the justice department in the days before that report was made public, raising objections to passages suggesting that president biden s memory was failing. this as explosive testimony in a georgia courtroom threatens to upend one of the criminal cases against donald trump. and a new york judge sets a march a 25th start date for the former president s hush money trial. let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnists dan dan henninger if bill mcgurn and editorial board member kyle partyerson. dan, a week since the robert hur report came out. do you see any cracks in democratic support for joe biden. not really. maybe a little bit among the pundits sort of recognizing what is the obvious, but in the professional democrats none, none. they are going to ride the biden train o
you aren t doing a studio audience show, don t you, at this point? i mean like, it s easier to announce when you re not doing a studio show with a live audience at this point. sean: i won t be doing one on tuesday and i won t be doing one on friday. i want to bring laura in one night. [applause] laura: we ll do a cassie lee. you can t hear anything. all right. hannity, i ve got to go. all right. love you guys. i m laura ingraham and this is the angle. don t take the bait, the focus for tonight s angle. the left is so upset that there weren t riots in manhattan when trump came to get booked by alvin bragg s prosecution squad. they were desperate for january 6-style images but the only problems were at the hands of mask antifa freaks who were trying to start trouble. now in this clip, one is playing the role of kind of an evil mary poppins character, so brave that they are all still hiding behind masks. central casting for morons. i am here with i m trying to report
sandra smith will stick around for us today as well. and bret baier also joining us this hour as the president insists the economy is right on track. celebrates it with james taylor at the white house. first we go to white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. hi, jacqui. even though that new gallop poll shows that voters are far more concerned with the economy than the climate, the president is fixated on climate telling reporters that he s not concerned about yesterday s hotter than expected inflation reading or the stock market sell-off before announcing that $900 million for electric vehicle chargers on highways across 35 states. great america road trip will be fully electrified, whether you re driving coast to coast on i 10 or on i-75 in michigan. charging stations will be up and easy to find as gas stations are now. we ll invest $7 billion to have the batteries and other critical materials that car companies need. the white house wants half of all new cars to be el