Ministers questions. It is always a little different, the pmqs ahead of the budget. He has vacated the chair for the Deputy Speaker. She will be going through some of the notices ahead ofjeremy hunt, the chancellor, delivering his Budget Statement. He will take to his feet shortly and will probably speak for about an hour shortly and will probably speak for Aboutan Hourand shortly and will probably speak for about an hour and then it will be the turn of the leader of the opposition, keir starmer to respond. We will take both of those live and uninterrupted and we will then have reaction from the Chief Secretary to the treasury, laura trott, part of the treasury, laura trott, part of the Treasury Team and her shadow for labour. Here isjeremy hunt. Madam Deputy Speaker, as we mourn the loss of life in israel and gaza, the loss of life in israel and gaza, the Prime Minister reminded us of the Prime Minister reminded us of the need the Fight Extremism and heal divisions. I start today by r
Todays budget might have left you with a bit more money in your pocket but some of the Public Services you rely on will face big Spending Cuts. So is it a vote winner . Mr chancellor of the exchequer. Cheering it was the last Spring Budget before the next election. Tonight well interrogate Whyjeremy Hunt made the announcements he did. And interrrogate one of his treasury ministers. Overall, the tax burden is going up. Correct . The tax burden is still too high, overall. Absolutely. And its going up . Well also talk to labours Campaign Chief. Well talk live to representatives of business and Public Sector workers and our Politics Panel is here to help us decode it all and tell us when we might be going to the polls. Todays was a budget that was as much about what comes next as about what comes now. Theres another 2p cut in National Insurance that will kick in soon but theres also the growing realisation that whoever wins the next election, they will face a daunting choice either oversee
pro iranian militias. the strikes were in response to a drone attack on a us military base, killing three american soldiers. a third successive week of protests against the far right in germany. more than 100,000 people demonstrate in berlin. now on bbc news newscast. so earlier this week we were chatting slogans with our fellow newscasters after an email that we received. and the question was, if we were a political party, what would our slogan be? that is fantastic, because in this year of one heck of a lot of slogans, we ve got to up our game, haven t we? we ve got to think of them. and we ve had some suggestions. we have, we ve had john on email who says our slogan would be oozing truth and stamina. and js on discord says, make britain ooze again, which i do like, apart from it s not farfrom make britain snooze again, is it? which is a perennial concern. well, we re going to start this episode of newscast now, and you can decide which is the more apt! hello. it s ja
the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, is pledging to invest more than seven billion pounds, to try to unlock further funding from the private sector. meanwhile, the conservatives say labour s policy of banning new licences for oil and gas in the north sea will cost billions in lost tax. labour says its plans to close loopholes in the windfall tax on energy companies, that it says will raise llions. in about an hour, reform uk will release its election manifesto which the party is calling a contract with voters. we ll have more on that in a moment. the liberal democrats are having a day at the beach. while calling for an expansion of fuel duty relief for rural motorists. leader sir ed davey visited a south devon beach taking off his shoes and socks and building sand castles with children and their parents. as we said, nigel farage will launch reform uk s election manifesto in the next hour which the party is calling a contract with voters. reform is promising a freez
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