Good evening welcome to newsnight for insights and interviews. The Prime Minister told us all today things will get worse before he said they would get better we already know that means tax rises, but well ask a labour Treasury Minister if it also means austerity is back in some form. Well ask what advice he has for a newsnight viewer whos nearly 80 and is having his winter fuel payment taken away, and we ask about accusations of cronyism. Is cronyism bad under a conservative government but ok under a Labour Government . Government but 0k under a Labour Government . Government but 0k under a Labour Government . Cronyism is something keir starmer government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very clear government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very clear he | keir starmer has made very clear h
Spence, the conservative commentator, scarlett maguire, the Director Ofjl Partners and a really interesting call from steve in burnley. Tell the audience why you like lee anderson . Basically because he just says what everybody is thinking. And hes got to say it. We listen to rishi sunak saying, we are going to do this, we are going to stop the boats. He is not stopping the boats. He says they have them down by 30 . Let me bring you some breaking news. This has been the Talk Of The Town in news overnight and this morning. The photograph that was released on mothers day by the Princess Of Wales with her kids. People spotted discrepancies, saying it was photoshopped and then the Press Agencies withdrew it. This has just come in. Like many amateur photographers, i do experiment with editing. I do want to apologise for any confusion by the photograph issued yesterday. Lets go to that Press Conference from reform uk. We are Press Conference from reform uk. Are very proud of it, or largely a
Clearly these concerns are worrying local people. The government has repeatedly said that the barge is going to be better value for british taxpayers because of the huge costs of housing Asylum Seekers and hotels, i think it is about £6 million a day at the moment. Do we know how much it cost a housing Asylum Seeker on the barge . We a housing Asylum Seeker on the barae . ~. ,. ,. , barge . We are told it is cheaper. There was barge . We are told it is cheaper. There was a barge . We are told it is cheaper. There was a report barge . We are told it is cheaper. There was a report recently barge . We are told it is cheaper. There was a report recently thatl there was a report recently that suggested it might only be a little bit cheaper. The government has been very cagey and giving us an exact number over what it will cost because i suspect it has been done before so they dont entirely know. There are concerns that the costs of maintaining a barge should be more than a building on land