alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. i do especially think president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and he was all in. he was all in. kevin mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump s house. built on the backs of trump s republican acolytes whose jobs depend on the support of donald trump s own base. but dynamics that were on display during a four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in the six months since. the chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the cou
the chancellor says we ve turned a corner, but is the uk now in a cul de sac? i now call the chancellor to make the autumn statement, jeremy hunt. jeremy hunt trumpets a two percentage point cut in national insurance, and an almost 2% rise in the living wage, but the uk tax burden is still the heaviest since world war ii, and growth forecasts are down, so will the cost of living crisis still be a cost of living crisis next year and the year after? nick s been out gauging reaction injeremy hunt s patch. ijust i just worry that this is a government that is running out of good ideas. government that is running out of good ideas- government that is running out of aood ideas. , ., ., , , good ideas. they are doing the best the can good ideas. they are doing the best they can under good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. l they can under the circumstances. they they can under the circumstanc
good evening from hull. we are at the streetlife museum, which celebrates this great port city s economy and transport. we ve been listening here to the chancellorjeremy hunt in his autumn statement unveiling his tax and spending plans for the year ahead including measures affecting the take home pay and household budgets of millions of people. we ll hear from our political editor chris mason and our economics editor faisal islam, and our cost of living correspondent colletta smith is here in hull with me. but first, let s look at some of the measures announced. there ll be tax cuts including a cut in national insurance from 12% to 10% for 27 million people. the state pension will increase by 8.5%, and universal credit and disability benefits will rise by 6.7%. but those on welfare must take a work placement if they are still looking for a job after 18 months or risk losing their benefits. and the overall picture for growth is gloomy the independent watchdog, the obr,
good evening from hull, where on the day ofjeremy hunt s autumn statement we ve been talking to people here, about how they feel the chancellor s plans will affect them. we are at the street life museum which celebrates this great port city s economy and transport and from here we ll be assessing jeremy hunt s tax and spending plans for the year ahead including measures affecting the take home pay and household budgets of millions of people. there ll be tax cuts including a cut in national insurance from 12% to 10% for 27 million people. the state pension will increase by 8.5% and universal credit and disability benefits will rise by 6.7%. but, those on welfare must take a work placement if they are still looking for a job after 18 months or risk losing their benefits. and the overall picture for growth is gloomy the independent watchdog the obr says its forecasts for growth are sharply lower than predicted and that s for the next two years. the obr also says that
see at the end of this war. it is a very important system. i would also add that we, as a u.s. is not a signatory to this, because we could see these weapons would be important in the near peer conflict. we need them to protect our soldiers lives. we should be as thoughtful about the ukrainians and their soldiers lives, especially when they are the ones bearing the cost, when they are the ones assuming the burden, and we should leave it in their capable hands that they will do what they need to and be effective at managing and mitigating the effects of customer musicians. this is an important decision, and the biden administration deserves a lot of credit for taking the step. okay, so, the issue, of course, comes on monday, when joe biden is in vilnius for the nato summit, the first summit since finland has joined nato. they are going to be some tensions there, including the fact that sweden has not been able to join nato, despite wanting to do so. 30 and, to some degree, hungary, ha