Approve that because they are in such a dire financial situation, and we will go back when that vote comes in birmingham. As weve been discussing, it isntjust birmingham facing these financial issues. Lets remind ourselves of why we are seeing these cuts happening across the country. Tony travers is professor of Public Policy at the London School of economics. It is London School of economics. It is now 14 London School of economics. It is new 14 years London School of economics. It is now 14 years since London School of economics. It is now 14 years since an London School of economics. It 3 now 14 years since an attempt was made by National Government to bring down its deficit, and that involved piling cuts more on Local Government, and the home office and justice departments, than other parts of public spending, such as the National Health service and the state pension, which have been protected. Local government took deeper cuts than other parts of the Public Sector. Although in the
after appearing in court charged with the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel. thomas cashman who s 3a is due to stand trial in march. king charles and the queen consort have greeted crowds in dunfermline on their first official engagment since the period of royal mourning came to an end. and meet the man from kent who makes his living from doodling and has achieved a childhood dream, by covering his whole house in drawings. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng has defended his u turn on abolishing the 45p income tax rate, following widespread criticism, at the conservative party conference. this morning he backtracked on the plans, which were announced just 10 days ago in the mini budget, follwoing several senior conservative mps voicing their opposition. in a speech in the last hour, he admitted it s been a difficult day, but told the conservative party conference that the uk needs a new approach and that economic growth is the only way to spread opportunity and
richard walker. former cabinet minister andrea leadsom. and the bbc s deputy political editor, vicki young. the chancellors day began like this. this 45p rate was simply a distraction in our mission to achieve higher growth. a u turn on the scrapping the 45p top rate of tax a policy he d announced in his mini budgetjust 10 days ago. now, in a little under 15 minnutes he ll be addressing the party faithful to persuade them that he is the man to be trusted with the economy through turbulent times. welcome to politics live in birmingham. andrea led some, after the market turmoil following the mini budget on the 23rd of september by kwasi kwarteng, and then the dramatic u turn overnight and this morning, on a central plank of that budget, and the economic perspectives of the government, how damaged is kwasi kwarteng s authority? i damaged is kwasi kwarteng s authori ? ~ ., , authority? i think it was really important authority? i think it was really important that author
Guest my goal was to state that and that is what i set out to do . Host what did you learn . Guest oh, lots. The book was much harder to write than i thought it would be. By the time i studied the book i was studying churchhill for 40 years. I made the author terrible mistake think it would be relatively easy compared to other things i had written. Much harder than i thought. When you write down and give account of main things in his life, things he thought, things he stood for, things he advocated or defended, turns out they relate to one another. More deeply and in more complex ways than i had imagined and i came to understand them better i hope and think and it was a painful process. Host did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Guest well, im a scholar, right . I dont think i can write anything down that i cant defend but i do admire churchhill very much. I think he was a very great man. If you just list things he achieved, this very hard to name anybody in all of histo
The book was much harder trait than i thought. By the time i started the book ive been studying churchill for about 40 years. It takes that long, he wrote so much. I made the terrible mistake of thinking it will be relatively easy compared to the things i had written, its much harder than i had thought because when you start writing it down and start trying to get an account of the main themes in his life and thinks he advocated or defended it turns out they relate to one another more deeply and in more complex ways than i had imagined. I came to understand him better and i hope and think, it was a painful process. Did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Im a scholar so i dont think i can write anything down but i cant defend. But i admire churchill very much. I think it is a great man. I think if you would list the things he was chief its very hard to name anybody in all of history like him. Its just a fact. Winston churchill wrote 50 books and they are worth reading. Tha