Pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. Hello and welcome. At the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. The government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long Standing Underinvestment in the regions. And now we have the policy, a Bill Published Today by the Levelling Up Secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. This white paper lays out a long Term Economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. It shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. It guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. In research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. It gives local communities the
Pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. Hello and welcome. At the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. The government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long Standing Underinvestment in the regions. And now we have the policy, a Bill Published Today by the Levelling Up Secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. This white paper lays out a long Term Economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. It shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. It guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. In research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. It gives local communities the
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He returns from california. Im going to explain why in my digest straight after the news headunes digest straight after the News Headlines with Polly Middlehurst i dan, thank you. Good evening. Well, the top story on gb news tonight, police in Northern Ireland say theyre confident that leaked data of officers and staff is in the hands of dissident republicans. Earlier sinn fein confirmed that a redacted version of the police data had been posted on a wall facing its belfast offices, which it described as sinister. Which it described as sinister. Last week, the details of 10,000 Police Officers and staff were published online by mistake. Published online by mistake. Chief constable simon byrne said police are now operating under the assumption the data will be used to generate fear and uncertainty. Uncertainty. We are now confident that the Workforce Data set is in the hands of dissident republicans and is therefore a planning assumption that they will use this list to generate fear and
British ice are tax Free Allowance to invest in uk listed companies. British isa tax Free Allowance. Moving on to the uk economy. The Office For Budget Responsibility predicts uk economy will grow by 0. 8 this year and 1. 9 next year. The uks Inflation Rate is also forecast to fall below 2 target this year. But the underlying debt, excluding Bank Of England debt, is forecast to be 91. 7 of gdp this year rising to 92. 8 next year. The government also kept a freeze on alcohol duty, which had been due to end in august, which will now continue until february 2025. There will be a new tax on vaping products to start in october 2026, and the existing tax on tobacco will increase. The chancellor says is in order to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking. 0n transport and energy, the government has frozen the fuel duty again and kept the 5p cut in fuel duty on petrol and diesel, due to end later this month for another year. A windfall tax on the profits of energy firms,