A general election. The backdrop a flat lining Economy Millions struggling with the cost of living and polling indicating the Conservative Party is lagging far behind the opposition. Not to mention Financial Markets on edge for anything that might worsen the uks finances. The memory of Prime Minister liz truss s disastrous Tax Cutting Budget no doubt not far from mr hunts mind. So lets remind ourselves what he came up with. The rate of National Insurance paid by employees and the self employed, will be cut again by 2 pence in the pound. That comes on top of an earlier 2p cut mr hunt announced in the autumn. In april, full Child Benefits will be paid to households, where the highest earning parent is getting up to £60,000. The current limit is £50,000. And the non dom tax break for wealthy uk residents whose permanent home is overseas, is to be scrapped raising £2. 7 billion a year for the government. That announcement is highly controversial as it was a key pillar of labour policy.
Last month. But so far, the houthi havent been deterred. These are pictures of the forces actually seizing a ship in november, the iranians back group which controls most of Northern Yemen had been targeting ships in the area for months, and protest at offensive in the gaza strip. This latest action is a major escalation, the ship hit by Houthi Yesterday was the envy true confidence that the ballcarrier was selling with the crew of 20 who are mainly filipino nationals. The attack happened about 15 nautical miles from the yemen port. The ship was travelling from china to saudi arabia. The us condemned the attack saying it went way beyond disruption to navigation and international seas. ,. , seas. Not ust endangered seafarers seas. Notjust endangered seafarers but seas. Notjust endangered seafarers but now, seas. Notjust endangered l seafarers but now, tragically killed a number of them so we will continue to hold them accountable and we call on government to run the will to do the same.