That you might have missed. The hthousep of representatives passed a set of Funding Bills needed to avoid a partial government shut down. House speaker johnson said he is pleased with the legislation because it allowed him to make spending cuts. We also advanced as you seen the surgery cuts to some of the agencies that we believe are really overreaching. And have been turned in some ways against the American People. We are going soto cut 3 from doj, 7 from the atf, 6 from the fbi, and 10 from the epa. And thats a start. We have a lot more priorities and things we need to advance but the reality is we have to grow the house majority, take back the senate and win the white house and i am hear to tell you the reason we are optimistic is because we believe the things will happen in november. What happened to my former party. You got a speaker who bragging about defunding the police. He is bragging about defunding the top Law Enforcement agencies in america. He is bragging about defunding t
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
Before the next general election. So there is a lot riding on this and after the chancellor delivers his statement, we will hear from the labour party, they will deliver a response in the House Of Commons to that budget as well. Joining me now is our political correspondence who is our political correspondence who is at Downing Street as well. We saw the chancellor depart from number 11 in the last 20 minutes or so, that budget firmly inside that red box. I was saying earlier, i did a story years later about those red boxes and how they are made, a secretive process, and they are very heavy, about three kilograms, so it takes a muscle to hold that up we knew some of what is in the box, we knew about the 2p reduction in National Insurance but what other rumours swirling around westminster . It is interestin swirling around westminster . It 3 interesting you mention swirling around westminster . It 1 interesting you mention the particle context around this because we think this will be t
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Internal matter. Last week red bull, the teams parent company, announced agreements against the grievance against what had been dismissed after what it called a rigorous investigation, but it made clear the claimant did have a right of appeal. Then there was a leaked alleged text messages. Horner has tried to maintain a business as usual approach to his work and as Chief Executive of Red Bull Racing, despite intense scrutiny. Calls for more clarity on the investigation by partners of Red Bull Racing have been made, but he was at the grand prix last weekend, which was won by Red Bull Racing and cut a defiant figure there as he appeared alongside his spice girl wife, jerry horner, alongside his spice girl wife, jerry homer, and he said to reporters he would be remaining as Team Principal and Chief Executive and that he retained the support of the teams partners and stakeholders. We also heard from the strap on, the father of the teams driver, Max Verstappen, who said that this whole cont