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
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entries suggest that sir patrick vallance had said that a number of ministers were trying to in essence use science to make decisions so they didn t have to make decisions themselves, and there isn t a great structure in that. the point of the inquiry is to learn how to make those decisions, should they need to be made again. there are questions for scientists as well. we have heard in this inquiry, back in february 20 20, six weeks before the uk finally went into lockdown, that there were those in downing street, particularly borisjohnson, who maybe were not taking covid as seriously as they might or should duff done considering what ended up happening, so there are questions to the scientists, had you understood the scientists, had you understood the virus sufficiently and should you have worn people earlier? that could have had a different outcome in terms of restrictions being made earlier and different outcomes to what happened. h0??? earlier and different outcomes to wh
discounts the summer of 2020, restaurant discounts offered, some people suggesting that that has led to an increase suggesting that that has led to an increase in infections. rishi sunak was the increase in infections. rishi sunak was the key increase in infections. rishi sunak was the key architect of that. there will be was the key architect of that. there will be questions to mark sedwill ahout will be questions to mark sedwill about that. there has also been some suggestion about that. there has also been some suggestion that people around government were referring to the treasury government were referring to the treasury led by rishi sunak as the denth treasury led by rishi sunak as the death squad, the pro death squad because death squad, the pro death squad because they were pushing very hard to protect because they were pushing very hard to protect the economy, perhaps at the expense of health. perhaps those around the expense of health. perhaps tho