announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and
of office, i say go nuclear and go large and go with sizewell c. china may have committed crimes against humanity, according to a much delayed report by the united nations. explosion. more shelling near the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in ukraine delays a visit by un safety inspectors. and she s not done yet serena williams wins again at the us open, saving her retirement for another day. and coming up on the bbc news channel. it s transfer deadline day, and we ll bring you the latest, with manchester united signing antony form ajax for an initial fee of £82 million. good afternoon. tributes have been coming in for bill turnbull the former bbc presenter who s died at the age of 66, after a long struggle with prostate cancer. he hosted bbc breakfast for 15 years, and also appeared on songs of praise, strictly come dancing and classic fm. susannah reid, who presented breakfast with him, said he was the kindest, funniest, most generous man in the business . his family said
now i think he welcomes the fact that the fracking ban has been. reinstated in england. just last week or the week before i he said that liz truss would winl the next general election, - and days later he welcomed the resignation of liz truss. today he backs rishi sunak, who - knows what douglas ross s permission will be at this time next week?! did nicola sturgeon get anything wrong in that list? look, that was an answer to a question i posed about the nhs in scotland, about people waiting hours and sometimes days for an ambulance to take them to a&e to sit outside and not get a bed in a&e and a number of e mails i had from people about that saying, fine, nicholas vision mixer political point, she had that scripted by her spin doctors of which we have record numbers in scotland but she couldn t even be bothered to answer the question about the health service point that she would rather make cheap political attacks on opponent rather than get to the bottom of the issues that
and the people of scotland by a significant majority voted to remain. we were told at the time it would be respected by both sides, that they would follow the outcome of that referendum and adhere to it. since then, nicola sturgeon and the nationalists have never accepted that result and have always tried to have another referendum. we mentioned nicola sturgeon a few times, we can listen to her in the scottish parliament and on the internet this clip is called nicola sturgeon ridicules douglas ross! let me just reflect on the last few weeks on the life - of douglas ross, leader for now. of the scottish conservative party. he called in borisjohnson to resign then u turned then called - on boris johnson to resign again and then u turned again, - he demanded that i follow the mini budget, then applauded liz truss l for scrapping the mini budget, l he voted for fracking in england,