This hour, the british beer and Pub Association is warning the governments alcohol duty changes will cost the industry an extra £225 million in tax. This the Prime Minister, however, has defended the overhaul, saying it will benefit thousands of businesses. The new thousands of businesses. The new system sees a shift from taxing alcoholic drinks based on their type, focusing instead on their strength, duty on certain drinks such as wine and vodka, will rise while tax on draught pints will be cut by around £0. 11. Roads and local transport minister Richard Holden says brexit made the changes possible. Were not going to see the price of a pint going up in your local pub due to our new draft beer duty relief, something that we couldnt have done when we were in the European Union that differential between what differential now between what you differential now between what you pay differential now between what you pay in the supermarket on terms of tax and what you pay in a is now gone u
And they came a close third to the conservatives. Heres the result their candidate came in just 117 votes behind their conservative rival securing 17 of the vote. I spoke to the leader of reform uk richard tice and asked him if he was pleased with the result or frustrated not to have done better. It would have been great, but nevertheless, we are delighted with 17 , its above our National Polling average, our best by election result, and what it shows actually, with great local candidates, more and more people are hearing about reform uk and they like the message they hear, and everybody knew labour would win this but if you look at the collapse in the tory vote, they went from 50 down to 17 . This is a seismic shift. What about the idea for voters that actually you did very well Given National vote share and the things you mentioned, nobody will dispute that, but its still nowhere near actually winning a seat, so what does that say to voters in the area . That says we have the wrong E
About their parties fortunes. Heres a little of what they had to say. We want that General Election and were confident going into the General Election. Because what this by election shows is that the country wants change. This is a very clear divide, weve had 1a years of failure and decline, weve got chaos and division from the tories. People want to turn the page on that and go forward with labour and our positive plan for the country. Obviously, its disappointing to lose good, Hard Working Conservative counsellors and im grateful to them for all their service in local government, keeping council tax low and delivering services for local people. But weve still got lots of results to come as well, which is great, and there are also things that i would point to harlow for example, where keir starmer held a rallyjust on wednesday saying that was a place he had to win to be on track to win a General Election that hasnt happened. This may care from sir ed davey of the Liberal Democrats. Th
Companies to show the gap between the boss and workers pay. Critics say thats not enough. The Eu Commission boss slaps down the governments latest brexit proposals. Running rings around saturn why the last days of the Cassini Mission could yield a wealth of scientific information. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news the west indies are chasing a famous win on the final day of the second test at headingley. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Japans Prime Minister says his country is facing an unprecedented threat, after north korea fired a missile over its territory. The missile was fired eastward from pyongyang at six in the morning local time. It potentially has the power to carry a nuclear warhead, and it fell into the North Pacific ocean, 700 miles off the japanese coast. In a moment well look at the International Communitys options, but first Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. Siren this is how people in northern japan were awoken atjust after six this morn
Us in the memory of those people, let us show the world. And in other news the Manchester Arena re opens tonight with a benefit concert, more than three months after the terrorist attack which killed 22 people. And the american sloane stephens, ranked eighty third in the world, causes a major upset, by winning the us open. Good evening and welcome to bbc news Hurricane Irma continues to leave a trail of destruction across the caribbean, today hitting the largest island cubas northern coastline cutting power and engulfing villages in storm surges. It hit in the early morning, with winds of up to 160 miles per hour. More than a Million People have been moved to safety along with thousands of tourists, many of them british. The hurricanes expected to reach florida early tomorrow landing initially in the florida keys and then moving across the southwest of the state. Millions of people were ordered to leave their homes. Tonight, time ran out and those who stayed are told its too late to le