Of remembering him. The artist sir howard hodgkin, who has died at the age of 8a. Newsnight is coming up on bbc two. Heres kirsty. Tonight, David Camerons former Director Of Communications when he was Prime Minister tells us that being perceived to have broken a manifesto pledge on National Insurance is a very difficult position for the government. Join me now on bbc two. In ten minutes time the papers takes a look at the headlines, followed by the main headlines in the iipm bulletin. In another chance to see newsnight at 11 15pm. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im hugh woozencroft. Your main stories this evening england wrap up a series whitewash over west indies, inspired by a century from alex hales in the final odi. Could a poor pitch in rostov interrupt Manchester Uniteds Europa League challenge . And warrington are still awaiting their first win of the Super League Season after defeat to champions wigan. Good evening, plenty to come, but first england have thrashed west indies in
Pledge, promise, and vow. Three words freighted with probity and trust. But, after anything but an explosive budget, a firecracker blew up in the chancellors face today over the issue of a promise. The question being, why does the government deny breaking a manifesto pledge on National Insurance when the 2015 Election Manifesto clearly said there would be no increase in National Insurance for the five years of an incoming conservative government . Is it ever right to to promise one thing and do another . The chancellor has raised the hackles of the right wing press, Tory Backbenchers of many stripes, and the opposition alike. Theresa may is in brussels tonight where, at a press conference, probably for the first time in her life, she was hoping for questions about brexit, but was pressed on this instead. Im joined by our political editor, nick watt. What did she had to say about National Insurance . She is standing by the fundamental principle of this Budget Change which is that the Se
Jose Police Officers association and san joses vice mayor. Thank you for being on the program. So how severe is the officer shortage . We do have an officer shortage in san jose and its getting more severe overtime but we have to take a look at how this has all happened. Its been a perfect storm. Its been a crisis thats been brewing. We had the Great Recession and we lost officers due to disabilities and due to retirement and due to disputes over intention and thats contributed to this. And now the police chief is asking us to make decisions to allow him to make the flexibility to staff patrol. Ive been making sure. How many do you have on street patrol now . How many do you need to meet minimum patrol standards for Public Safety . Theres a staffing that were allowed and were not really seeing all the officers that we have allowed staffing for so were somewhere around 813, 812 officers on the street which for a city of over a Million People we would like to have a lot more officers on
Paul kelly president of the San Jose Police Officers Association and san joses vice mayor. Thank you for being on the program. So how severe is the officer shortage . We do have an officer shortage in san jose and its getting more severe overtime but we have to take a look at how this has all happened. Its been a perfect storm. Its been a crisis thats been brewing. We had the Great Recession and we lost officers due to disabilities and due to retirement and due to disputes over intention and thats contributed to this. And now the police chief is asking us to make decisions to allow him to make the flexibility to staff patrol. Ive been making sure. How many do you have on street patrol now . How many do you need to meet minimum patrol standards for Public Safety . Theres a staffing that were allowed and were not really seeing all the officers that we have allowed staffing for so were somewhere around 813, 812 officers on the street which for a city of over a Million People we would like
Jose Police Officers association and san joses vice mayor. Thank you for being on the program. So how severe is the officer shortage . We do have an officer shortage in san jose and its getting more severe overtime but we have to take a look at how this has all happened. Its been a perfect storm. Its been a crisis thats been brewing. We had the Great Recession and we lost officers due to disabilities and due to retirement and due to disputes over intention and thats contributed to this. And now the police chief is asking us to make decisions to allow him to make the flexibility to staff patrol. Ive been making sure. How many do you have on street patrol now . How many do you need to meet minimum patrol standards for Public Safety . Theres a staffing that were allowed and were not really seeing all the officers that we have allowed staffing for so were somewhere around 813, 812 officers on the street which for a city of over a Million People we would like to have a lot more officers on