this man does the sums that tell the government how much money they have to spend. but why do they sometimes get it wrong? we ll ask the boss of indepent organisation the obr, richard hughes. it s michael gove s job to make sure the chance of a good life is spread fairly across the land, but can he level the country up when living standards are going down? labour s lucy powell has big plans for the bbc what s the problem she s trying to fix? and remember this act of courage? marina ovsyannikova famously interrupted live tv in russia to protest against the war in ukraine. she ll tell us about her astonishing escape. translation: i was thinking it was better for me translation: i was thinking it was better for me to translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back to - translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back to russia, | bet
most vulnerable. later we will ask you to give most vulnerable. later we will ask you to give to most vulnerable. later we will ask you to give to some most vulnerable. later we will ask you to give to some solutions - most vulnerable. later we will ask you to give to some solutions to i you to give to some solutions to that programme, but thank you for your thoughts just now. this morning, we re trying to work out when most people can expect to better off after years of hard times for many. in a second, we ll talk to michael gove. but one of the hard things is that the crystal ball is a bit dodgy when it comes to predicting what might happen. the office for budget responsibilty, set up in 2010, every six months tells governments and the rest of us how much the economy s likely to shrink or grown by their sums, so how much money the government s got to play with. it s important, they independently check the government s sums for us all, but the reality is, their forecasts often t
people a year. remember the context of this is the conservatives are promising at the last election that immigration would come down. a quick prediction as well about the political row to come. it is going to be, i think, about pensions and those perks for those who are in the most. labourwill those perks for those who are in the most. labour will go after the government on this and force it to a vote at the beginning of next week. the independent watchdog the office for budget responsibilty predicts the uk economy will shrink this year, but would avoid a technical recession. that s when it shrinks for two quarters in a row. it warned of a big drop in living standards over the next two years, the sharpest since records began in the 19505. and house prices are predicted to fall by 10%. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam, has been looking at the numbers behind today s budget. what we want? fair pay. the chancellor called it a comprehensive plan for growth, but the backdrop is