From the uk to provide 10,000 military drones. Now the vast majority will be first person view drones, fpv drones, which can loiter over the battle space and drop their munitions on russian tanks and artillery. But it will also provide a thousand new one way attack drones in addition to that, more maritime attack drones. Attack drones. Post office boss nick read has denied supplying misleading evidence to mps relating to the companys use of non disclosure agreements. He was accused of providing false information on at least two occasions with the Commons Committee concluding the post offices leadership is, they say , in disarray. It they say, in disarray. It follows warnings that follows warnings from mps that the post office is not fit to run any compensation schemes for victims of the horizon scandal, describing efforts so far as an abject failure. Downing street abject failure. Downing street has today declined to comment on whether investigating complaints of misgendering is a good
Because labour dont have any plans to reduce taxation. It sort of makes my point for me, their plan is basically that tax should remain at its current levels. We say we dont have to levels. We say we dont have to accept the status quo. If you make difficult decisions, if you stick to our plan for the economy, thats seen inflation falling and growth starting to rise, we can bring down the tax burden. Burden. News in from kyiv tonight, where the uk has pledged a further £125 million of military support to ukraine in a major move against putins invasion. Our home and security editor mark white joined me earlier with more on what that announcement tonight will mean for ukraines war efforts. This extra package , announced this extra package, announced by grant shapps on a visit to ukraine is very significant. Hundreds of pounds and millions of pounds in extra commitment from the uk to provide 10,000 military drones. Now the vast majority will be first person view drones, fpv drones , which
Of pounds in extra commitment from the uk to provide 10,000 military drones. Now the vast majority will be first person view drones, fpv drones, which can loiter over the battle space and drop their munitions on russian tanks and artillery. But it will also provide a thousand new one way attack drones in addition to that, more maritime attack drones. Attack drones. Post office boss nick read has denied supplying misleading evidence to mps relating to the companys use of non disclosure agreements. He was accused of providing false information on at least two occasions with the Commons Committee concluding the post offices leadership is, they say , in disarray. It they say, in disarray. It follows warnings that follows warnings from mps that the post office is not fit to run any compensation schemes for victims of the horizon scandal, describing efforts so far as an abject failure. Downing street abject failure. Downing street has today declined to comment on whether investigating compla
Good evening. From the newsroom. Im sam francis, a quick look at the headlines. At just after 9 00, government ministers are challenging labour to set out its own funding plans after it backed the governments decision to cut National Insurance. The non dom tax status will be scrapped with the aim of raising revenue to make up for the £0. 02 cut, though figures suggest any benefits for the taxpayer are likely to be cancelled out by an expected rise in council tax. Earlier, jeremy hunt told gb news that his budget is proof that the government, he says, is making their fiscal plan work. We want to end the unfairness, the direction of travel weve gone is to reduce National Insurance by one third. The fact that labour are opposing this today is really because labour dont have any plans to reduce taxation. It sort of makes my point for me, their plan is basically that tax should remain at its current levels. We say we dont have to levels. We say we dont have to accept the status quo. If you
steaming? i look forward to hearing from you. that is coming up. and here is the news. tens water is holding urgent talks today to secure extra funding thames water. the government says supplies will not be affected if it collapses. the court of appeal are set to rule today on a challenge to the government plan to deport migrants to rwanda. at least 150 people have now been arrested across france after protests over the killing of a 17 year old boy by a police officer. the teenager was shot in a traffic stop in a paris suburb on tuesday. the committee which found boris johnson repeatedly lied to parliament over downing street party is in lockdown will publish another report today about how it believes the findings were undermined. it is expected to name certain mps and peers. i have hints of some of the anger from you about your water from a couple of callers we took in mp5 panel yesterday. if you feel you want to howl at the moon, we are hear from you, want to howl at the