And charities are meeting with ministers to discuss the difficult winter ahead. Energy bills will rise again in october, when the price cap increases by 10%. Rachel reeves said she had to take difficult decisions in very challenging circumstances. The conservatives are calling for her to scrap the changes. Our political correspondent iain watson reports. Energy prices are increasing and so is the pressure on the government to help those who are struggling to pay their bills. We are bracing ourselves for a really difficult winter. We are already seeing record numbers of people coming to us with energy debt in the height of summer. That is only going to get worse when the energy price cap rises. From october, the energy regulator ofgem is allowing prices to rise by 10%, and that represents bills of more than £1700 a year for a typical household. This morning, the government brought together big energy companies, the regulator, and citizens advice bureau to discuss what more could be don
The Prime Minister has warned that the budget this october will be painful, in his first major speech from no 10 since becoming Prime Minister. Speaking in the rose garden, he said his government had inherited a black hole in the public finances, of £22 billion. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden, he cautioned, but he also said there would be big asks of everyone. The conservatives responded by saying the speech was an indication that labour had been planning tax rises all along. Vicki young has our top story. Blue skies and sunshine, but the Prime Minister didnt come here to paint a rosy picture. He has accused the conservatives of wrecking the economy, leaving him to put it right. There is a budget coming in october. And it is going to be painful. We have no other choice, given the situation that we are in. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden. I will have to turn to the country, and make big asks of you as well. Its already
Had enough of his nonsense aoc has no understanding or standing, yes thats right, on how to run a general election the suburbs and state street aoc is in a district that is six to one democrat and she could not find a republican in her district with binoculars. Great quotes. Earlier this week than your congressman laptop the suggestion that she is the wedge in the party. Watch. There are at least inhouse caucus in very deep Division Within the party. And i believe that we need to really come together and not allow republican narratives to tear us apart. As you mentioned we have a slimmer democrat majority parties going to be more important than ever for us to Work Together not fight each other. And so when we kind of come out swinging, not 48 after tuesday, it will when we do not even have solid data yet pointing fingers, and telling each other what to do it deepens the division in the party. It is irresponsible. It is irresponsible to pour gasoline on these very delicate tensions in t
Aoc has no understanding or standing, yes thats right, on how to run a general election the suburbs and state street aoc is in a district that is six to one democrat and she could not find a republican in her district with binoculars. Great quotes. Earlier this week than your congressman laptop the suggestion that she is the wedge in the party. Watch. There are at least inhouse caucus in very deep Division Within the party. And i believe that we need to really come together and not allow republican narratives to tear us apart. As you mentioned we have a slimmer democrat majority parties going to be more important than ever for us to Work Together not fight each other. And so when we kind of come out swinging, not 48 after tuesday, it will when we do not even have solid data yet pointing fingers, and telling each other what to do it deepens the division in the party. It is irresponsible. It is irresponsible to pour gasoline on these very delicate tensions in the party. Kennedy congressw
From moscow whats your to international with me. Thanks for joining us this hour. Our top Level Exchange of accusations that is raising the stakes over the sudden and so far unexplained illness of Prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny kremlin spokesman to be through. All allegations of state involvement in the case as unacceptable and absurd in their very nature or the german spokesman spin asked if they will scrap the north stream to gas pipeline project with russia as arties peeta all of the reports. The German Government press briefing the lunchtime press briefing wrapped up on monday putted with with questions about north stream 2 i think just about every other question made reference to the Multi National Infrastructure Project the message coming out of the German Government is that as it stands at the moment north stream 2 is an economic project and its own connected to the no valley case starts as it stands however that could change depending on how things develop