Hannah miller, has the story. In homes across the country and Public Services on the ground, it can seem like everyone is crying out for cash. We have got roads full of potholes. Are you confident that the chancellor will be persuaded to give you more money to spend on housing in the budget in a few weeks time . Well, im doing everything that i can. I mean, short of laying siege to his own home. Well, i want us to be, you know, l Cutting Taxes in a responsible way. Under pressure from backbenchers and with less money to play with than hed hoped for the chancellors scrabbling around for ways to pay for a tax cut on a scale that voters will notice. Today, mr speaker, im going to cut the main 12 rate of Employee National insurance. Last year, he chose to cut National Insurance contributions and its thought he may do that again. A tax cut for workers that brings no benefit to pensioners. The Number Crunching going on inside number 11 is not just about the state of the nations finances its
the moment, i cannot say a lot about the ukrainian reaction and the response to what happened. so for the ukrainian defence ministry has not confirmed that this military aircraft could have been downed by the ukrainian forces suit no confirmation from their side. ukrainians say this has asked for comments from the general staff, the defence ministry. the general staff replied that for now, they don t have enough information and they still have to try to find out what happened there. of course, the prisoners of war and the issue of swaps is one of the most sensitive and difficult things and issues of ukraine now. thousands of ukrainian military are still in the russian community and there was an expectation that new groups of prisoners could have happened but again, military intelligence that is in charge of these swaps of prisoners of war said that for now, they are not ready to provide any official statement or confirmation or denial whether any prisoners were scheduled. to
afternoon, and said a man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. our correspondent duncan kennedy is in bournemouth this morning. duncan, what more can you tell us about this? good morning. it had been a glorious day here in bournemouth yesterday. the sun was shining, the beach was packed with people on their half term break. then this incident, this major incident, was declared about half past four when all the emergency services were called. the police tell us they recovered ten people from the water. we don t know if they were swimming or on some sort of vessel. ten people were recovered from the water. two of them, a 17 year old boy and a 12 year old girl, had somehow suffered what they called critical injuries. they were taken to hospital where later they both died. the police tell us that their families have been informed. that they are liaising with their families to help them through what they called this difficult time. the other eight people invo