Will save the average worker about £75. But is that the budget rabbit that conservative backbenchers were after . The answer plainly is no, but the truth is, there was simply not enough money to deliver the cut in income tax they had demanded. After the measures announced today, the Office For Budget Responsibility estimated the chancellor has just £8. 9 billion of headroom left, down from the 13 billion he had in the autumn statement. That the second smallest on record, yet the chancellor gave us a relatively optimistic view of the economy, after covid, a war in europe, and the damage inflicted on the british economy economy this, he said, was a budget for long term growth. Todays obr forecast also shows that we have made Good Progress on the Prime Ministers three economic priorities. Compared to when the three pledges were made, inflation has halved, debt is falling in line with our fiscal rules, and growth is fully 1. 5 Percentage Points higher than predicted. Clamouring. And as g
Hello, you will live with bbc news. I am anna foster injerusalem. A Us Military Ship has set off for gaza, carrying equipment to build a Temporary Floating Port for desperately needed aid deliveries. The us military confirmed that that ship left late on saturday from a Military Base in virginia on its way to the middle east. The un has warned that around a quarter of the population of gaza, more than half a million people, are currently facing famine, which is why this new way of potentially getting aid in is so important. And in the meantime, there is a separate aid ship with around 200 tonnes of food on board which is still waiting to set sail from cyprus, waiting to be given the green light to head towards gaza. That is part of a new maritime aid corridor that the eu announced just in the last few days and said that they were optimistic that it would become operational for the first time this weekend. And of course, all of this comes as the us President Joe Biden gave a new intervie
Now on bbc news, political thinking with Nick Robinson hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. My guest this week is a daughter of what we still euphemistically called the troubles the 30 years or more of violence which scarred Northern Ireland and the british mainland divided communities and claimed the lives of more than 3000 people. Emma little pengelly is the new deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. She grew up on the border with the south, the place with the highest death toll outside belfast. Her father was arrested and imprisoned in france for involvement in Arms Trafficking for hardline loyalists back in the 1980s, something he still denies to this day, though, he did once say publicly he would oppose compromise to the bitter end, to the death. Compromise that is with people like the First Minister of Northern Ireland, michelle 0neill of sinn
Hello, im lucy grey. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Former conservative Prime Minister theresa may is set to stand down as an mp at the next General Elections. Families of the victims of the uvalde Mass School Shooting have expressed their outrage after a report cleared the police of wrongdoing. 19 children and two teachers were killed in the may 2022 attack. Nearly 400 officers responded, but it took 77 minutes after the first officers arrived for police to confront and kill the 18 year old shooter. An independent investigator was assigned to look at the local police response, which has been criticised as slow. He found officers acted in good faith. The main problem in this scenario, in this incident, wasnt the fact that they didnt go to the door, it was they couldnt get to the door. There was eight feet that the shooter could see clearly. But families of the victims have condemned the new report, several walking out of the presentation. There were multiple Law Enforcement of
Harry and britney what do these two have in common . Well tell you later in the show. Welcome to The World Today. Start tonight with global efforts being ramped up to get aid into gaza. Until now its been done by road and then air now a sea corridor is being set up to gert much needed food, water, medicine and temporary shelters into the palestinian terrority. Aid provided by the United Arab Emirates will be gathered at cyprus, where it can be inspected by officials from the israeli government; and from there it will travel a Via A Maritime Corridor Actross the Eastern Meditterranen to the coast of gaza. The European Commission chief was in cyprus earlier to make the announcement she spoke to reporters along with the cypriot president a point where we simply have to unlock all possible routes. The humanitarian situation in gaza is dire. With an extent palestinian families and children desperate with an extent palestinian families and children desperate for with an extent palestinian fa