Cuts could be made before the Tory Party Conference in manchester next month. Downing manchester next month. Downing street has sought to play down reports the Prime Minister is drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax. The sunday inheritance tax. The sunday times claims rishi sunak is considering reducing the current rate in the budget in march, despite a warning by chancellor jeremy hunt. He would have no jeremy hunt. He would have no headroom for tax cuts. Death headroom for tax cuts. Death dufies headroom for tax cuts. Death duties charged at 40. But the vast majority of estates fall below the threshold. So married couples can pass £1 million to their kids without it being taxed. Political commentator Peter Spencer says it only benefits the wealthy. Benefits the wealthy. It is a tax cut which is good news for the rich and has no impact on people who are not not so well heeled. I mean, what so well heeled. I mean, what doesit so well heeled. I mean, what does it mean to people wh
Jeremy corbyn is plotting to run for mayor london. And ill be for mayor of london. And ill be heanng for mayor of london. And ill be hearing from the liberal democrats whip wendy democrats chief whip Wendy Chamberlain from their conference in bournemouth and the outspoken tory backbencher Daniel Kawczynski joins me in the studio to dissect another busy week in politics. What does he the plans to cut he make of the plans to cut inheritance tax now before we get through all that, lets go through front pages. Lets through the front pages. Lets start. One story thats start. Theres one story thats dominating papers dominating the papers this morning. Imagine, hs2 morning. As you can imagine, hs2 sunday telegraph goes with axe looms over hs2, over 8 billion cost shock. The bill has gone up by another 8 billion. Can you believe it . The sunday times goes with sunak revives plan to slash inheritance tax. This has slash inheritance tax. This has been waiting in the wings, hasnt it . Been waitin
President trump who was tossing signed footballs into the crowd. Our alexandria hoff is live here on set with the latest. Hello, alex. Reporter hi, mike. Just four months out from the iowa caucuses, and friction played out both on and off the field. Attending has become a political tradition for white house hopefuls, and former President Trump arrived in ames, iowa, with plenty of fanfare. He toss toed out those footballs and flipped burgers while joining in on a fraternity tailgate. How you doing, President Trump . What do you think about this . That is some turnout. Yeah. I guess the youth likes trump. We love iowa. Reporter you can hear the inside Jack Trice Stadium reaction was a bit more mixed, cheers combined with some booing. The the former president watched the rival iowaiowa state matchup from a private box while Governor Ron Desantis embraced a more lowkey position, sitting in the stands behind governor besides governor kim rehold ins. The hawks won 20 the13, by way. Tailgati
At this point to go live to british Prime Minister theresa may. Shes speaking to the house of commons liaison committee. We believe we can achieve that in the overall relationship and we have put forward some ideas as to how that can be. Done. Were able to discuss those specific ideas. This is about no physical infrastructure. Surely Prime Minister, if it doesnt cover all goods, those that are excluded would then of necessity subject to checks and your commitment that you have given to there being no hard border, no checks, no controls could not be delivered. Either everything is in or everything isnt in. Its a very simple question about how this would work. It is a very simple answer. What we are going to deliver is no hard border. No physical infrastructure at the border. So then you cant confirm what it would cover. Can i move on now to timing. Now the Eu Commission has published this morning has said that the transition arrangement should last no longer than the 31st of december 20
Welcome, everyone, to the intelligence report. Stocks are bouncing back big time, up 251. Near the highs of the session. This is after the wild session we saw yesterday with the tow at one Point Crossing the 26,000 mark. You know what . It did it again today. Were up above 26,000. Were at highs of the session, up 1 . We got big news from apple. Well explain all of it. Liberal media badgering trumps position at white house briefing. Physician. The reporters were shocked the president is in good health, just shocked. They kept asking me questions, a total of 77 questions to be exact, all in an attempt to get the doctor to Say Something bad about the president and his health. Wait until you hear some of those questions. We got them for you. Break burman is the a the white house with the latest on the looming Government Shutdown. Blakes, is it going to happen . Reporter has to be hammered out by friday night. The trish, the plan thrown out by pub leadership lip there, is shortterm funding