From 10 to 8, and self employed National Insurance will be cut from 8 to 6. It means an additional £450 a year for the average employee, or £350 for someone self employed. When someone self employed. When combined with the autumn reductions, it means 27 million employees will get an average tax cut of £900 a year. Tax cut of £900 a year. Well, other announcements made by the chancellor today are that the non dom tax status will be scrapped with the tax break for wealthy Foreign Residents replaced by what the chancellor called a modern residency system. And rounding out todays announcement , system. And rounding out todays announcement, pubs will also system. And rounding out todays announcement , pubs will also get announcement, pubs will also get announcement, pubs will also get a boost from a freeze on alcohol duty. The child benefit threshold goes up to £60,000, and the £0. 05 cut to fuel duty is locked in for 12 months. Lets take a look at other measures in the budget as well
It. And he says the tories have lost control of the economy. Welcome to the show. Well, weve just had the Spring Budget. I just had the Spring Budget. I want to hear from you. Do you feel this was the moment we expected a rabbit to be pulled out of the headlights instead . Did it feel to you like the chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt, was a rabbit in the headlights . Were the big headlights . Where were the big fireworks . Where was the big fireworks . Where was the big bang . Titanic tax cuts bang . We wanted titanic tax cuts instead. Does it feel like to you , like theyre rearranging you, like theyre rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic . The deck chairs on the titanic . Throughout the course of the show, ill speak to experts across housing, hospitality, manufacturing, Small Businesses , manufacturing, Small Businesses, and of course, political reaction from the conservatives, the labour party and the liberal democrats. And the most important people of you , the importan
Vaping and smoking, but the Office For Budget Responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. Heres our business correspondent, emma simpson. Did you catch any ofjeremy s budget . It was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party. But was it enough . I think its good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. But then if you think about the Cost Of Living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. Anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, were in a position where were living off savings. I think theyre trying to do it in light of a General Election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit to the country is. The centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to National Insurance, a tax paid by workers. So who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax and thresholds
Weekend, after rishi sunak called on organisers not to let extremists hijack those protests. In his speech , protests. In his speech, delivered from downing street last night , delivered from downing street last night, he called for the nafion last night, he called for the nation to unite and warned that islamist extremists and far right groups are spreading poison, he said, and trying to tear us apart. If followed. Tear us apart. If followed. George galloways controversial win in the rochdale by election earlier this week , which the earlier this week, which the Prime Minister described as beyond alarming. The rochdale by election returned a candidate who dismisses the horror of what happened on october 7, who glorified hezbollah and is endorsed by nick griffin , the endorsed by nick griffin, the racist former leader of the bnp. I need to speak to you all this evening because this situation has gone on long enough and demands a response, not just from government, but from all of us.
Going to manipulate the covid pandemic to attack trump but to benefit biden. Were seeing it right now. Were trend spotting. Larry, youre terrific. Nothing unifies the nation more than what youve talked about, prosperity. Larry thank, lizzie. Take care. Elizabeth joining us now, were bringing in senator mark wayne nudge. Senator, its great of to have you on again, sir markwayne mullennen. What do you think of the trump comeback . Who would have thought this in 2021 . Yeah, i wouldnt have thought he was going to run again. In fact, jim jordan and i met him in the white house right before he was leaving, and i would have swore he wasnt plan being on running again. The idea that he is, its exciting, the partys exciting. I dont think anybodys cleared out a primary field faster than President Trump. Its and the people are responding to it. Theres a lot of people making the fact that nikki haley got 25 of the vote, but everybody thats been in office nose as an incumbent, which is the way Pres