Taxes. The obr is likely to lower the estimate of how much room he has, and that is probably an over estimate anyway. So he has very little space. He could opt for different things. It looks like hes going to concentrate more on their household than all businesses, therefore two major taxes, one is income tax, other is National Insurance contribution. Income tax is our broader tax and it would cost him more money whereas National Insurance contribution focuses on people at work and would cost him a little bit less. Having a bit less money to play with, like that give as a clearer sense of the conservative priorities here because we know there might be an election coming . It is actually who that money goes to, where they want to target votes . That who that money goes to, where they want to target votes . Want to target votes . That is a very aood want to target votes . That is a very good question want to target votes . That is a very good question because want to target votes . That
It looks like hes going to concentrate more on the households rather than on businesses. And therefore, there are two major taxes that he could hope for, one is income tax and the other one is National Insurance contribution. Income tax is a broader tax and it would cost him more money, whereas National Insurance contribution focuses on people at work and will cost him a little bit less. Yeah, i mean having a bit less money to play with, i suppose, do you think perhaps that might give us a clearer sense of the conservative priorities here . Obviously, we know there might be an election coming. Its actually who that money goes to, where to target votes, maybe. That is a very good question because it does look like they are going to target consumers or households rather than businesses. Whereas if you look at what the priorities are in terms of raising growth potential, you do want to improve and get Business Investment growing faster. So that is really a very big question as to where th
Capital, port 0 prince. Night cu rfews are in force capital, port 0 prince. Night curfews are in force until wednesday. Gangs have attacked two prisons in the country, first in the centre of the capital, the largest prison in the country. And the second prism is nearby. This was also hit by gangs. This all happened over the weekend. Gang leaders say they want the Prime Minister out of power. James landale has the latest. Gunfire haiti has long been lawless and violent, but now the disorder has got even worse. In the capital, port au prince, over the weekend, people fled for their lives as what Law And Order there was broke down. Powerful armed gangs already control much of the city, but yesterday they overran two prisons, freeing its estimated more than 4,000 inmates. Eyewitnesses reported seeing bodies inside and around the prison compound. Some stayed behind to avoid the shooting. Translation it was a very difficult situation last night. The riot in the prison put our lives at risk.
A gang leader had warned the haitian Prime Minister not to return to haiti. He was in nairobi, discussing the possibility of a kenyan led Multinational Security force. But the bbc has established that he left returned to haiti safely on sunday. With the details, heres our caribbean correspondent, will grant. The decision to declare both a State Of Emergency and a night time curfew in the Haitian Capital comes after fierce fighting by armed gangs who are now in control of most of the city. During the fighting, gunmen entered the main prison in Port Au Prince and quickly overwhelmed the guards, allowing some 4,000 inmates to escape. Eyewitnesses report seeing several bodies inside and around the prison compound. The gangs in haiti which oppose mr henrys rule sense a possible power vacuum and an opportunity to force him from office. A notorious gang leader, a former elite Police Officer called jimmy cherizier, also known as barbecue, has claimed responsibility for the latest outbreak of v
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r