The truth is taxes are still going up. People feel worse off because they are worse off. So this morning, we have one big question in what direction would labour drive the economy . The woman in charge of the partys calculator, Rachel Reeves, who wants to be the next chancellor is here. The budget promised extra cash to get more bang for taxpayers bucks in the Health Service. Well ask the health secretary, victoria atkins, what difference that will make. And whats it like when your body wont do the Amazing Things you used to do the lead singer of del amitri tells us how parkinsons hasnt stopped him taking to the stage. Morning, morning. Helping me out at the desk for the next 60 minutes, chef and green campaigner Hugh Fearnley whittingstall, john lewis boss dame sharon white, and lord michael howard, former conservative leader, and one time Shadow Chancellor, too. A very warm welcome to all of you. Making the news this morning. The sunday times says Boris Johnson went to venezuela, and
donald trump in the early polls, we ll break down the numbers with veteran american pollster, frank lu ntz. # i m your private dancer, i ll do what you want me to do. and an avalanche of tributes to the music legend tina turner. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. net migration to the uk reached record levels last year with 606,000 people added to the population. the numbers were boosted by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of international students, and skilled workers, including more than 200,000 nurses and carers. the prime minister, rishi sunak, has said net migration is too high and he wants to bring the numbers down. in a moment we ll get more from our political correspondent jonathan blake but first let s speak to our head of data robert cuffe. and robert is in the newsroom. the main number is 600,000 people coming through and the main reasons why we are seeing such a large number is p
again because he attacked her again. donald trump does not have control of his own message and his own behaviour, and he simply reacts and if he continues to make mistakes, that makes it viable for any other candidate, but i want to emphasise, right now donald trump has a significant lead and write out the last time that somebody has a lead like that and lost the nomination, i can t think of any, back to 2016, when hillary clinton won the nomination and still lost the election. ., ., , , nomination and still lost the election. ., ., , election. that of course is about caettin election. that of course is about getting the election. that of course is about getting the republican - election. that of course is about i getting the republican nomination. a final question, who between ron desantis and donald trump has the best chance of beating joe biden when it comes down to the actual election? irate when it comes down to the actual election? ~ ., ., ., election? we are going to acknowled
people coming from ukraine and under the bno scheme. not many people come to study and stay for ever. even if the government did nothing at all we would still probably see the numbers coming down and they are doing something, they are trying to bear down on asylum seekers and also people bring their families with them when they come to study so that might have an impact on the numbers. the question for them politically is whether that will have an effect in the next couple of years before the next election. ., ., ., ., election. you mention asylum and there are large election. you mention asylum and there are large numbers election. you mention asylum and there are large numbers in - election. you mention asylum and there are large numbers in terms| election. you mention asylum and i there are large numbers in terms of there are large numbers in terms of the backlog of cases? yes. there are large numbers in terms of the backlog of cases? the backlog of cases? yes. the number o
swing voters, those who are undecided? definitely ron desantis rather than donald trump. donald trump is leading right now but when the chips are down ron desantis would probably make a better candidate and i think ron desantis would make a better general election candidate againstjoe biden. bier? candidate against joe biden. very interestin: candidate against joe biden. very interesting to hear candidate againstjoe biden. very interesting to hear you articulate that so clearly and maybe we will talk again in the coming months. thanks forjoining us. the head of la liga in spain has said racism can never be eliminated. javier tebas was speaking to the bbc after the real madrid forward viniciuer was the target of abuse at valencia on sunday. mr tebas said he believed racist insults could be driven out of the country s stadiums within months, but the league would need greater powers. three valencia fans were arrested after the incident at the weekend. their club stadium has been