The Prime Ministers top adviser Sue Gray has resigned from her position as downing Street Chief of staff. She said she was standing down because it had become clear that intense commentary around her position Risked Becoming A Distraction to the governments vital work of change. It had recently been revealed she earned more than the pm. In a written statement, Sir Keir Starmer thanked her for all the support she had given him, both in opposition and in government. Iain watson reports. This is how close Sue Gray was to the Prime Minister, Meeting President biden alongside Keir Starmer just last month. The Sue Gray report into Government Lockdown parties has just been published. She is probably best known as the Senior Civil Servant who drew up the partygate report, which hastened borisjohnson s departure from number ten. The conservatives were outraged when she traded her Whitehall Job for an influential role with labour. Since last september, she was Keir Starmer s Chief Of Staff in op
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He still easily beat mitt romney. So i would guess that the Harris Campaign understands that as good as things went last night, the race is far from over. There is still time. The polling we have is within the margin of error in all of the key states. We have a modern Tutrition Dating back to kennedy. It hat matters, the biden debate determined the race. We like the idea of two people going back and forth. On tiktok people have been resurfacing the old debates and they look calmer and more respectful now compared to what trump has done in lowering the bar. Our colleagues are mengsing a 9 11 memorial event. There is a line from a country song, the line from the gutter to you aint up. And we have people look at the reality of what we have been through. And then trump at the debate, obviously shows these problems. The other thing i was thinking of. We try to make sure we Fact Check and go to the source on msnbc. I have had cory ledowsky, steven miller, i had Steven Bannon back in the day.
Of this live right now. Reporter absolutely. Ana, what youre hearing is it will be almost 3,000 names that will be read this morning and for as long as it takes, sometimes it goes into the early afternoon. It is of those people who died here on 9 11, not only those who died here but also six people who were killed when the World Trade towers were attacked in 1993. In addition for the four moments of silence we have had here, there will be a Moment Of Silence as you point out for when there was the attack on the pentagon and another one for when the plane, flight 93, plowed into the field in shanksville, pennsylvania. And behind me what you see behind vaughan and i, that is whats called The One world observatory. It is in the footprint of where the World Trade towers stood. As one woman said to me as she was taking her children in a couple years ago for a visit, to tour, and to learn about what happened here, she said that for her its a symbol of power, strength and resilience. This is
The most and conservative thing i could do would be to cut taxes by increasing borrowing. Thats just cutting taxes and saying future generations have to pick up the tax after. I wont to do that. But i do want, where its possible to do so, responsibly, to move towards a lower tax economy, and id hope to show a pass in that direction. But this will be a prudent and responsible budget for long term growth, tackling inflation, my investments, morejobs, and thats path to lower taxation as and when we can afford it. But you said also, that the forecast from the obr, which is the economic watchdog which marks your homework, you have said that the numbers have gone against us. So the picture is bleaker than it was at the beginning of the year . Why then are you looking now to cut taxes at all . These forecasts change the whole time. What happened in the autumn was that the forecast went in our favour unexpectedly, quite close to the end. So i was able to introduce the biggest business tax cuts