violin plays. ceremonies are being held to mark holocaust memorial day to remember the millions of people persecuted and murdered by the nazis. and britain s alfie hewett and gordon reid secure theirfourth successive australian open wheelchair doubles title their 16th grand slam title together. hello and welcome. the chancellor, jeremy hunt will make a major speech shortly about where long term growth in our economy will come from. mr hunt is expected to dismiss gloom as he sets out plans to increase productivity in the uk. it s also thought he ll pledge a relentless focus on the key industries of the future. but it comes against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis and ongoing strikes about public sector pay. it comes in a week the government has faced accusations it has no long term plans for growth. according to advance extracts from his speech released by the treasury he will say. the government will offer a plan for long term prosperity based on british genius
affairs told journalists that more than 1.3 million people had been displaced in the worst floods the country had seen in a decade. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. and boy, there s quite a lot of politics to think about, isn t there? all the drama about this government mess, though, a dramatic shift in our politics. it has become the conventional wisdom overnight that labour will win the next election. the polling suggests there s been a greater swing in recent days and weeks than there was during the last worst financial crisis to hit a conservative government black wednesday back in 1992. and that ll mean there will pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what labour will do. faced with the same economic fundamentals high taxes, high borrowing, high inflation and low growth. if labour does indeed win an election, lisa nandy will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what s become known as
weaknesses. structural issues like poor productivity, skills gaps, low business investment and the other concentration of wealth in the south east have led to uneven and lower growth. real incomes have risen by as much as they could as a result. confidence in the future, though, starts with honesty about the present. so we want to be one of the present. so we want to be one of the most prosperous countries in europe. today i want to set out our plan to address those issues. our plan to address those issues. our plan for growth is necessitated, energised and made possible by brexit. the desire to move to a high wage, high skill economy is one that is shared on all sides of that debate and we need to make brexit a catalyst for the bold choices that will take advantage of the nimbleness and flexibility is that it makes possible. so this is a plan
think tank 0nward, who did a lot of work with michael gove and andy haldane on levelling up and said, why will you succeed when, for 100 years, nobody has? you know, whether you call it regeneration, localism, levelling up, regional inequality. and my answer is that this is not a regional or a local issue, this is a national issue. for 19 of the last 20 years, only two regions london and the south east have had the investment and the backing from the government to put more into the public purse than they take out. everybody else has effectively been put by government into a state of managed decline and the country can t succeed like that. i mean, you all know this from london that, you know, a million kids move to london every year to try and find higher wages. i was one of them, all those years ago. and you do find them, you find better opportunities and higher wages, but you also find that half of your disposable income is taken up with housing costs and that you can t get on
emma simpson, bbc news, nottingham. a boat sent by the government of mauritius has arrived in the disputed chagos archipelago in the indian ocean. the united nations highest court has ruled that britain s occupation of the islands is illegal, but britain has refused to hand control to mauritius. those on board include a number of islanders who were forcibly evicted to make way for a us military base. mauritian officials are expected to raise the nationalflag on at least two of the islands. now it s time for a look at the weather with tomasz. well, it is quite a mixed bag today. some of us across east anglia and the south east have enjoyed some dry weather but the rain is going to arrive a little bit later on nothing too heavy. and where the rain is heavy right now, it might actually peter out through this evening only to return through the early hours of sunday morning. so, very early on sunday, it does look distinctly wet