hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the chancellor announces half a billion pounds to help get people back to work after the pandemic, amid concerns over living standards. he says he will only consider cutting taxes when the economy is back on track. more revelations from the leaked pandora papers show how a second prominent donor to the conservative party was involved in one of europe s biggest corruption scandals. the military is called in to help distribute fuel to petrol stations as shortages continue in london and the south east. protesters clash with motorists as insulate britain cause more disruption across london. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. a decision on whether england s cricket team will play in this
iain watson, bbc news, manchester. 0ur chief political correspondent chris mason can join us now. chris, i mean, someone had to explain to the party faithful, to the most die hard conservatives where you are, why taxes are going up, explaining away price increases, food shortages, wages not going up soon as people want, did rishi sunak do enough of a convincing job to convince rank and file conservatives that the party government is on the right one? that the party government is on the ri . ht one? . that the party government is on the riaht one? . , , , ., right one? that is the big question this afternoon right one? that is the big question this afternoon and right one? that is the big question this afternoon and that right one? that is the big question this afternoon and that is - right one? that is the big question this afternoon and that is the - right one? that is the big question this afternoon and that is the talk| this afternoon and that is the talk of a conference now,
with a cost. our national debt is - with a cost. our national debt is almost 800% of gdp. so we need to fix our public finances. i m joined now by sir ed davey, leader of the liberal democrats. he is right, isn t he? they have spent enough and borrowed enough and they can t do any more borrowing, they can t do any more borrowing, they have got to do something else? the conservatives have broken their promises on taxation several times, and i would expect them to break them again because of the mess they are making of the public finances. what i was surprised, though, it was we had a chancellor which ignored the reality that most working families are facing in our country. this is an out of touch chancellor. you would imagine that listening to him that there was no fuel crisis, no energy crisis, no shortages, no problems in the abattoirs with the pig and chicken industry. it was astonishing. he had an opportunity to say how the government was going to say how the government was going to
charged with rape. he denies the allegation. the military is called in to help distribute fuel to petrol stations as shortages continue in parts of england. protesters clash with motorists as insulate britain cause more disruption across london. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor rishi sunak has told the conservative party conference in manchester that he wants to do whatever it takes to help britain recover from the pandemic. saying he believed in fiscal responsibility, mr sunak defended tax rises, and said he d like to cut taxes when public finances are on a sustainable footing . and he insisted brexit was in the long term interests of the uk economy, despite disruption to fuel supplies. the government is commiting £500 million to renew job support programmes,
transition revamp if you like. what are you saying to ministers? i think we have been are you saying to ministers? i think we have been raising are you saying to ministers? i think we have been raising the are you saying to ministers? i think we have been raising the issue - are you saying to ministers? i think we have been raising the issue of. we have been raising the issue of lahour we have been raising the issue of labour shortages were three or four months labour shortages were three or four months now. it has been pretty clear that as months now. it has been pretty clear that as the months now. it has been pretty clear that as the entire world economy bounces that as the entire world economy bounces back there are shortages everywhere. but whilst the cause of the problems might be global, the solutions the problems might be global, the solutions need to be local, and so we are solutions need to be local, and so we are saying let s get round the table. we are s