What exactly do we know about tomorrows budget . Lets look at the bi icture tomorrows budget . Lets look at The Big Picture and tomorrows budget . Lets look at The Big Picture and then tomorrows budget . Lets look at The Big Picture and then the tomorrows budget . Lets look at The Big Picture and then the detail. Tomorrows budget . Lets look at The Big Picture and then the detail. The l big picture and then the detail. The economic reality, the economy is stagnant. We are in recession. Albeit a shallow one. Taxes are through the roof by any recent historic standard. And Family Finances feel squeezed. Then there is the political reality, the conservatives have been in government for yonks and there has been more than the odd economic and political calamity and their ratings, their popularity, is really poon ratings, their popularity, is really poor. So, enter the chancellor. Ratings, their popularity, is really poor. So, enterthe chancellor. No pressure then for him. Trying to do someth
Good evening. The chancellor has been putting his final touches to his budget as he prepares to unveil it tomorrow it could well be the last one before the General Election. What is now expected is a 2p cut to National Insurance and another freeze on fuel duty. But could jeremy hunt go even further . Our Political Editor chris mason is here with his thoughts but before we hear from Chris Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam has been weighing up how much room for Manoevre The Chancellor has. The chancellor is hoping to use his Big Red Box Moment tomorrow to declare a definitive economic Turning Point after years of crisis and shocks. Certainly the path and forecast for Inflation Looks like that. Look at this inflation is falling back from its Energy Shock Highs towards the Bank Of England target. On the other hand, its a little tricky to talk about a Turning Point when as you see here, the economy just started shrinkng at the end of last year you can see a shallow recession, but one noneth
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they played the national anthem. biden and king charles inspected the troops before going inside, having tea, and one of the larger conversations about climate change. it s a topic that s near and dear to king charles heart. this is something he has been campaigning and advocating for for more than five decades. earlier in the morning, before arriving at windsor castle, he met up with rishi sunak, the prime minister of the united kingdom at 10 downing street, where the majority of the conversation was about ukraine, continuing to give weapons in the hopes they beat russia. this comes on the backdrop when president biden agreed to send cluster munitions to ukraine, and look, it s controversial. the united kingdom is just one of more than a hundred nations that bans those cluster bombs because there s the potential that they could kill civilians. nevertheless, biden says it was a difficult decision, but one that he decided to make in the end, and then of course he flew off to
paul adams has more. the americans say the attack happened at a base known as tower 22, right on the syrian jordanian border. it s one of many american bases across the region. there have been dozens of drone and missile attacks in recent months, but no american personnel have been killed until now. joe biden, seen here attending church, was quick to point the finger. we know it was carried out by radical iran backed militant groups operating in syria and iraq, he said. it s not necessarily a tipping point into uncontrolled escalation between the united states and iran, but it s another very dangerous step because, as i say, the us will have to respond even more strongly than it s done to previous attacks. carefully cultivated over years, iran has a wide network of allies and proxies operating in countries across the middle east. they re all opposed to israel and the united states. it s sometimes called the axis of resistance. there are pro iranian militias in lebanon, the