legalise same sex marriage. the new family code which is the culmination of efforts by a coalition of lgbtq activists, would help gay couples adopt children and also allow surrogate pregnancies. now on bbc news, it is time for dateline london. hello and a warm welcome to dateline london. i m ben brown. we re looking at two of the week s big stories what s happening in russia as men flee the country after president putin s call up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use nuclear weapons, and also the british government s announcement of sweeping tax cuts the most far reaching for half a century. well, i m joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian, stephanie baker of bloomberg news, and latika bourke of the sydney morning herald. so, cuts to income tax, corporation tax, national insurance and stamp duty and removing the cap on bankers bonuses. it will cost tens of billions of pounds. the government says it will boost economic
the government, though, is that the real test - at the end of this come election time in two and a bit years is actually not - going to be how much tax - they have to pay every month. it s going to be, - did my wages grow? and if you see bankers i wages growing, if you see millionaires wages growing in a real sense and yours i didn t, that s where this is really problematic- for the government. - the other thing i would add is there s a really good litmusj test for this in what happened in australia in 2007, where a very old right government, they had four terms and the centre right government that had made a huge mantra - for itself in selling fiscal. responsibility to the public ended up going on an absolute spending spree a couple of years before the election. they re very unpopular by this point. - and the labor opposition leader who then became the prime minister won that election l by saying this reckless spending must stop, l and i think there s a real moment for keir s