jeremy hunt said he will protect the most vulnerable and we will find out on thursday what that means for benefits and pensions. public services such as hospitals and schools are already under huge pressure their budgets squeezed by inflation. but they are unlikely to get any extra cash soon. we would reform that energy profits levy to make it a proper windfall tax, and we think that backdating it to january, when those windfall profits from war started to come into the coffers for those energy companies, extending it by an additional two years, closing some of those loopholes and putting up that tax rate so it matches the level of taxes of energy companies in norway, we believe that could bring in an additional £50 billion. on the plane to bali, rishi sunak said the government s job was to restore stability to the country s finances. but that will come at a cost we can all expect to feel. ben wright, bbc news.
start off ahead of the weather front with windy conditions, along the weather front as well as heavy and persistent rain, windy conditions, behind it, a mixture of sunshine and showers. strong winds through the english channel and north sea and gales in the northern isles. in one tomorrow, you can see it is going to be a windy day. temperatures ranging from 11 in the north to 14 degrees in the south. from tuesday into wednesday, there goes the weather front clearing and we have another one coming in and later on again, another one coming our way and they are all bringing rain. during wednesday, we start with sunshine and showers, it is not too long until our first weather system comes in bringing heavy and persistent rain with gales in the south west. during the course of wednesday, wherever you are, the wind is going to strengthen during the day and overnight wednesday into thursday, we could potentially have winds in
these inflatables up to dunkirk, which is to the east, and way down around 20 or 30 miles down the coast and the other direction, so the crossings are much longer, 30, 40, 50 miles even, but it does mean the stretch of coast is now 30, 40, miles long and that is worth bearing in mind, it is not simply the beach outside calais where these are taking off from, but along a long stretch of beach, often with no habitations anywhere near it, so that it habitations anywhere near it, so thatitis habitations anywhere near it, so that it is relatively easy for the smugglers to fix a point, get people to turn up in many vans at exactly the right time and very quickly set them out. ~ ., , ., them out. with me now in the studio is a policing them out. with me now in the studio is a policing and them out. with me now in the studio is a policing and justice is a policing and justice commentator. danny, morning to you. this is the fourth agreement between
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