As he prepares to do this again, hes trying to improve his partys fortunes. This morning, jeremy hunt was keeping his cards close to his chest as he toured the tv studios. But he did give this hint. I do want, where its possible to do so responsibly, to move towards a lower tax economy, and i hope to show a path in that direction. But this will be a prudent and responsible budget for long term growth. With roughly £13 billion to play with, thats less than hed hoped for. The chancellor is scrabbling around for ways to find more cash that would allow him to reduce taxes. And labour arent saying whether theyd prioritise tax cuts or not. So would you bring down taxes now . Well, we want to bring the tax burden down in the long run, but were not going to promise anything which is not completely responsible and fully funded and fully costed. And youll see all of our plans in the manifesto for getting the economy growing because that Economic Growth is so crucial to making People Better off,
In the past couple of hours, americas top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has arrived back in israel from egypt, where he was trying to persuade officials to reopen the border point. Egypts Foreign Minister is reported as saying israel had not yet taken a stance that would allow the crossing to open. Over the weekend, hes held talks in six arab states, wanting to alleviate gazas humanitarian crisis and stop the war escalating. He returns to israel, as it prepares a major Ground Operation in the gaza strip. We are expecting a News Conference shortly involving Antony Blinken and we will bring you that as soon as it begins. This is a fast moving story, but here are some other key points. The United Nations is warning that Hospital Fuel Reserves in gaza are likely to run out in the next 2a hours potentially Endangering Thousands of patients. Conditions in the territory are worsening, with shortages of food, water and aid. At least 2,750 people have been killed. Palestinian sources say israels ai
Condition. So it was a scene just people are wounded. Cant wait for an ambulance, were going to move, five people did that. 11 others have been transported as well. They have been injured. We dont know exactly of all these we talk about the casualties here, how many of them were hit by bullets, trampled by others, ran into something we dont know. But we do have 11 people injured plus five patients taken by private vehicle to st. Maries hospital. Live reporting here and you can see theyre now accessing information from local sources. They are from our Affiliate Kntv in Northern California. Gilroy, california. If youre just joining us here on msnbc, it is 8 00 p. M. Pacific time, 11 00 p. M. Eastern. As we watch this breaking story coming out of Northern California, again this location is a Food Festival. We got reports of this locally tat this happened right around 5 30. That would then put it around three hours ago, a little bit
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