have improved touch. but making ends meet still the biggest for families and firms. i can t give them the things you would like to give them, like the new books. i can t afford to do it any more. with a new promise from labour to help keep a lid on bills, we have one big question this morning is rishi sunak keeping his promise to run a professional government for us all? to answer that, james cleverly, the foreign secretary. the woman who d be your chancellor if labour win the next election rachel reeves is here. and the latest of our leaders interviews for 2023 we ll hearfrom nicola sturgeon, scotland s first minister. with me at the desk to help make sense of what that lot of have to say, the chair of tesco and imperial college, john allan, the lbc presenter and journalist, racheljohnson, and iain duncan smith tory mp who used to lead his party. good morning, thanks for being with us. it s not been a great week for the government, with a feeling that rishi sunak ca
welcome to bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. france s hard right is in pole position after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in french politics. supporters of marine le pen s anti immigration national rally cheered as she said the president s macronist bloc has been all but wiped out. marine le pen s far right national rally party came top, with more than a third of the vote, followed by a surge in support for the left wing coalition, with around 28% of the vote with president macron s centre right alliance of parties relegated to third place. final results won t be known for another week with a second round of voting next sunday. from paris, here s andrew harding. a dramatic win yesterday for france s national rally. the party was for years considered too extreme for most french voters with its anti immigration, eurosceptic platform and its links to the kremlin. but last night, the rn, as it s known here, secured more than a third of all v
good morning. a tax mess, a police fine, and controversy over publicjobs. it s a tricky morning for the tories. nothing s easy for the prime minister right now. questions still chasing his cabinet colleague nadhim zahawi. have anything you want to say? ..about whether he paid enough tax. are you avoiding answering. questions about your taxes? and new claims this morning that this man, the bbc chairman, helped fix a deal for borisjohnson, who then gave him the job. there are demands in the tory party that the government should give us some hard earned cash back, yet the prime minister seems to suggest it would be daft to think about tax cuts yet. you re not idiots, you know what s happened. but he made his own mistake, forgetting to buckle up in the back, breaking the law and being fined. expectations for the economy might
they are expecting for women. it was interesting, when one female afghan journalist asked him a question, how do you want afghan women to appear if you are allowing them to be on media, he did not answer that question. he left it to, according to the islamic rules and sharia law. interposition of that can be quite bleak for interposition of that can be quite bleakfor women and interposition of that can be quite bleak for women and also and when we see the new government, the new formation of government, it can be quite mild as well, because we have islamic countries around the world. women are presenting, women are appearing in tv, women are appearing in music, so we don t know. we had after member that in the have to remember in the 1980s, when the taliban were in power, there were no women on tv, no women in publicjobs apart from gynaecologists, if that ecologist was working, there were no women in schools, so it isjust so hard to predict what we are going to