carnival in west london is coming to an end this evening. and, coming up a five thirty, we investigate if workers are being exploited and if hustle culture has gone too far in the dark side of direct sales. in the last few minutes, its been announced that the conservative leadership candidate liz truss has pulled out of a bbc one television interview with nick robinson tomorrow evening. it comes after ms truss team hit back at criticism of her economic plans, after the institute for fiscal studies think tank said they were simplistic and warned that proposals to cut some taxes could crash the economy. our political correspondent damian grammaticus is here what more do we know about this interview miss truss will no longer be taking part in? with the bbc office of said is that she pulled out because she could no longer spare the time is what we have been told. this was agreed about two and a half weeks ago or so and so, liz truss of the time was scheduled to happe
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they re solid. vehicle sales have been very strong. i m suspicious of the number. these numbers don t go in a straight line, they re affected by seasonal patterns and we had warm winter weather so that may be messing with the data. i m not reading too much into the weakness particularly retail. that isn t consistent with everything else we know. when you look at everything else, everything else on the same track, manufacturing up, health care sector up, everything else up, and the other one that caught my eye, the public sector for the first time we didn t see a dip, we didn t see any ads, but we saw a flatline and what does that tell us? well,s that a silver lining. obviously a disappointing report. hoping for more. but the silver lining is that the lay-offs, the large lay-offs we ve been getting in the state and local government sector appear to be winding down. i don t think they re over. i think we ve got more lay-offs to go, particularly local government, property tax revenues