Threshold. Now is not the time, says borisjohnson. Meanwhile the labour party pledges to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. Voters in hong kong turn out in record numbers to cast their ballots in District Council elections. Five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of Police Officers injured. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has unveiled the conservative manifesto with a speech in which he promised to spend more money on Public Services without raising income taxes. He also pledged repeatedly to get brexit done, and vowed to keep the United Kingdom intact. The headline promise of this manifesto is the conservative pledge not to raise income tax, National Insurance contributions or vat. The so called triple tax lock. They also kept up the pressure on labour over the nhs by promising 50,000 nurses more than double what labour were proposing.
Enough times. Weve heard them enough times, they werent true then and they arent true now. The majority of economists have always agreed that there was another approach the government could have taken, rather than austerity, and we always argued, and we were right, that austerity was a political choice, not an economic necessity. As recently as march, the Party Opposite ploughed on, saying there was no alternative. To look at them how was no alternative. To look at them now suddenly proclaiming an end to austerity after 125,000 excess deaths as a result, after 100 billion taken out of the economy, after the worst decade for wage growth since the 19th century, just because there may be what . An election round the corner. And after all that, after all that, to deliver what is a pathetic sum to spending departments who are on their knees at the moment. Itsjust adding insult to injury. A government not just callous and uncaring, but hypocritical as well. This isnt a government, its a rack
Superseded by a new, hyper intelligent life form Artificial Intelligence, i reckon, will be Something Like 10,000 times faster in thinking than we are. And Frank Lampard is back at chelsea as manager the club where he made over 600 appearances and won 11 major trophies. Good morning. In the last hour, the betting group william hill has said it plans to close around 700 of its shops across the uk, putting more than 4,500 jobs at risk. The company blamed the closures, which amount to nearly a third of its outlets, on the governments decision to reduce the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals to £2. Our Business Correspondent, emma simpson, is here. A bit of background as to how we have come to this point . The industry had warned that reducing the stakes on these fixed odds betting terminals from £100 to £2, that change came into effect in april, would trigger store closures and job losses. Today william hill said it plans to close 700 stores and they say since april, it has
Is all about chair yellen. Tom with lunch yesterday, you would not have known it, that there was a dovish tone, but i will tell you, the markets moved more than i thought after the nonevent. Really the questions got a response. The harvard will join us dean harvard will join us. Francine i think you put a perfect. When you look at market movements, there is more investors saying she is chasing the markets, not a good place to be. This is one of our main discussion points. Lets get to the first word news. Vonnie thank you. The airport in brussels will remain closed to passenger flights again. It has been out of operations since the terrorist attack. Once the airport doors reopen, arriving passengers will be sent to the hangers to collect their bags. The departure holds will only be able to have 1 5 of normal passengers. The Un Security Council is being pushed to fight back against iran Fourth Nuclear missile tests. The stabilizing and provocative; they say they launched the missiles in
Throughout the morning, we will get some more data out of europe. No earnings. Though we should mention that the japanese stock market is closed today. This is a holiday called respect for the aged. I think that is a very noble gesture. Im not looking at you when i know that, i just want to be clear. I turned 48 this year. Im getting aged, too. So you fall in that category, too. You are good people. Secretary kerry in paris. He is discussing support for iraq. It is really country by country. This is not like a broad photo shoot kind of thing. Every country for itself. What you do say earlier about saudi arabia . Im watching saudi arabia. Theres a real question of how offensive they will be when we really go directly after syria. U. K. Prime minister David Cameron is returning to scotland for second time in a week. Theyre concerned up there. There were four pulse of the week and, three effectively dead heat and the other said the independent voters are leaning the union voters, by a per