after standing by the policy. but with a growing number of senior conservatives criticising the plan, the chancellor admitted this morning that it had to go as it had become a distraction from other parts of the government s economic plan. and so the chancellor used a key speech at the conservative party conference in birmingham to try and move beyond that distraction , take a listen. what a day. it has been tough but we need to focus on thejob in hand. i know the plan put forward only ten days ago has caused a little turbulence i get it. i get it. we re listening and have listened. i refused to accept that it is somehow britain s destiny i refuse to accept that it is somehow britain s destiny to fall back into middle league status or that the tax burden reaching a 70 year high is somehow inevitable. it isn t and it shouldn t be. we needed a new. applause. conference, we needed a new approach focused on raising economic growth. just over a week after hitting an all time lo
appear to be borne out by photographs from the white house bathroom. tonight with the context, the international trade expert rebecca harding, and former adviser to president george w bush ron christie. hello, welcome to the programme. president biden is defying expectations, and earning a reputation as a president who gets things done. despite the toxic nature of washington politics or maybe because of it senate democrats have been working through the summer to bring about an impressive list of achievements and a lot of that has come with the support of republicans. first came the pandemic relief $1.9 trillion, otherswise known as the american rescue plan. then in november the infrastructure bill. injune the first bipartisan legislation in decades on gun safety. then came the chips act, to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing. then new health care benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. a bipartian agreement on nato expansion admitting finland
transition team, and also with us international trade expert rebecca harding. i am sure they will both have a view, on the tensions in the middle east. jake sullivan the national security adviser was in riyadh today. on what basis? rumours that president biden might be considering a new peace iniative. and the emmys are postponed. the writers and actors are still on strike, the ad buyers withdrawing funds, how do the studios find a way out of this punishing hollywood strike. lets start with the trumpet news. trump news. the former us president donald trump has been charged with two further counts of retaining classified materials. these latest charges relates to a taped conversation the former president had at his bedminster golf club in newjersey, in which he talks about a pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country, thought to be iran. trump had always denied he had retained any of the classified
russian administration spied on him or the russian collusion, the republican voters russian collusion, the republican voters have heard so much about this that the voters have heard so much about this that the general feeling is that it is harassment at this point. it is notjust is harassment at this point. it is notjust about the is harassment at this point. it is not just about the evidence, the audio not just about the evidence, the audio is not just about the evidence, the audio is damning but it is the general audio is damning but it is the general feeling that these guys are picking general feeling that these guys are picking on our president, they have been picking on our president, they have been exaggerating lies for several years been exaggerating lies for several years now. this is an extension of that years now. this is an extension of that donald years now. this is an extension of that. donald trump is definitely benefiting from fatigue of the governme
protests over the death of a young woman in police custody. and kim kardashian is being fined more than a million dollars for illegally promoting a cryptocurrency on instagram, without revealing that she was being paid. tonight with the context, the former communications director for the trump campaign brian lanza and the international trade expert rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. it s not the way the new prime minister would have hoped to start her term a dramiatic u turn on herfirst major economic policy, only 10 days after announcing it. but that s where liz truss, and her chancellor kwasi kwarteng are today, dropping their plan to scrap the 45 pence top rate of income tax just 2a hours