the rhetoric that george osborne used. is there an argument for saying that whenjeremy hunt used. is there an argument for saying that when jeremy hunt stands up saying that when jeremy hunt stands up on the 17th, he shed, you know, it shouldn t be left to the small print, he should say it upfront and loud we are doing this, and this is why we are doing it. you loud we are doing this, and this is why we are doing it. why we are doing it. you and i can make that why we are doing it. you and i can make that case, why we are doing it. you and i can make that case, but why we are doing it. you and i can make that case, but i why we are doing it. you and i can make that case, but i don t - why we are doing it. you and i can make that case, but i don t think. make that case, but i don t think it will have much effect on the choice of words will have much effect on the choice of words that he happens to use. you ve of words that he happens to use. you ve also of words that he
mid november, what more are we hearing about why exactly that is? believe it or not, jane, it might actually because be because of economic good news, or that news is not as bad as it was. so, a couple of weeks ago, whenjeremy hunt became chancellor and started to rip up became chancellor and started to rip up all of liz truss s economic plans, the fiscal black hole that the treasury thought that it had to fill what about £40 million. my understanding is that the working assumption now in the treasury is different, that it is £35 billion, basically that it does not have as much money that it needs to save. so, it thinks that is good news, it wants to give itself a bit more space to see if it can find a wee bit more money down the back of the sofa to make the cuts for the tax rises not as bad as they would have been. one other thing to flag from prime minister s questions, rishi sunak seemed to reintroduce the ban on fracking, he said he would stick with the manifesto promise, whic
consequences will exist for a long period of time and even with everything reversed, there will be a big black hole in the public finances trussonomics. everyone is trying to work out the implications of what happened this morning, but there was a talk of a £20 billion black hole. finding that kind of money can be done but it s not easy and when jeremy kind of money can be done but it s not easy and whenjeremy hunt is going around whitehall departments asking for cuts, be it in defence or other areas of domestic services, thatis other areas of domestic services, that is going to be very painful and when the markets look at this, they will say, hang on a minute, can this get through the house of commons? we ve seen this with the debate about benefits thatjeremy hunt has said he would like to see benefits improved in some way and he wants to help the poorest in society stop you said that yesterday on the bbc but if they are not uprated, that will struggle to get through mps and there
at 10 o clock, we ll be here with a full round up of the days news. first, newscast. i canno t believe that a press conference about covid ended up as a sort of rap battle between chris whitty, that is still the rules for us, that is still part of our winter plan. i don t know, actually, that could take us quite a long way to the rest of the year, and of course and the thing about winter in the nhs, do you remember whenjeremy hunt told us on newscast at the mentor in the nhs lasts until april the next year. it s only september, we ve been talking about it all day. something big happened stop at the base chapel, and it s pretty much nearly done as we were recording this on thursday evening, but let s recap the big winners, because what s been happening today on thursday as the lower runs of the latter, the top runs were done on wednesday that big