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Well one tory peer seems to think so. Hm. Freeman here. But any case, this show is not about me. Its about you. Nothing without your views. So lets know your thoughts on all the stories were discussing today or anything you to talk or anything you want to talk about. Just me about. Basically just email me at gbviews gbnews. Com or message me on our socials. Were at gb news. Really, really simple. But first lets get the news headunes first lets get the News Headlines with the very lovely sam francis. Dawn thank you very much. Good afternoon from the gb news room, the headlines just after 1 00. And we start with the story leading the news today that the chancellor has hinted at be in his spring at what could be in his Spring Budget. But hes been cautious to that unfunded tax cuts to say that unfunded tax cuts arent on the cards. To say that unfunded tax cuts arent on the cards. Forecasts arent on the cards. Forecasts appear to show that jeremy hunt has little to no headroom for tax cuts, limiting the prospect of pre election giveaways. Of pre election giveaways. However, speaking to gb news earlier this morning, jeremy hunt did say his budget will include a number of reforms to pubuc include a number of reforms to public services, which he said will mean better for value taxpayers. It is wrong to say that we should be putting more money into the Public Sector, fewer Civil Servants to be more productive, correct . Productive, correct . You want fewer people to do more. More. I think weve got to stop always looking at the inputs and always looking at the inputs and always that the way to always saying that the way to get Better Services is to get Better Public Services is to spend more and actually ask if we be more efficient as we could be more efficient as well as weve been hearing in the last hour or so. A seven Year Old Girl, we understand has drowned today after a small boat capsized while trying to cross the engush while trying to cross the english channel. We also understand 15 people were on board that boat, including the girls family , when it sank off girls family, when it sank off the coast of calais , the local the coast of calais, the local authority said it was not appropriately sized to carry that many people. Yemens houthi that many people. Yemens houthi militant group has issued a fresh threat against britain. Theyre warning that it will target, strike and sink more british ships. The rebel group says britain is a rogue state and have accused the government of attacking yemen and collaborating with the us in crimes against gazas civilians. Crimes against gazas civilians. It comes less than 24 hours after a british cargo ship, which was abandoned after a recent missile strike, sank in the red sea. Meanwhile, the uk , the red sea. Meanwhile, the uk, the red sea. Meanwhile, the uk, the us and the eu all have military ships patrolling the region to protect commercial vessels that are passing through the important shipping route here in the uk, the government is reportedly considering blocking hate preachers from entering the country , with more entering the country, with more people being added to warning lists. Reports suggest that current powers could be used to increase the number of people who are prevented from entering the thats if theyre the country. Thats if theyre deemed to be non conducive to the public good. That could include those who preach racism, intimidation or incite violence. Current the rules are typically used to ban people who are known to pose a security threat. Rail to pose a security threat. Rail passengers in england and wales are facing new 5 price hikes on their tickets from today. Thats despite train cancellations being among the worst in ten years. Campaign argue the public are being unfairly punished by the increase. It comes after thousands of services were cancelled in the past year. In one of the worst performances in the Rail Industry since records began. The Rail Industry since records began. In. Two iran now and began. In. Two iran now and counting is continuing. After the election. There on friday that saw a historically low turnout. The Islamic Republic, which is an ally of the Hamas Terror Group in gaza , was hit by terror group in gaza, was hit by Anti Government protests last Anti Government protests last year Anti Government protests last year after the death of a woman whod been arrested by morality police. Kasra arabe, the police. Kasra arabe, the director of research at united against nuclear iran, told gb news this morning that there is growing frustration over restrictions on political and social freedoms. There this regime is a totalitarian dictatorship and the lack of consequences by the west on the regime has made harmony believe its given khamenei the confidence that he can get away with anything that he wants and really , the iranian people no really, the iranian people no longer believe in this system. Uh, they seek the overthrow, the they seek outright regime change and a vote for this system. Any and a vote for this system. Any in any case, voting for any candidate who is personally hand selected by the Supreme Leader is a vote for the islamic repubuc is a vote for the Islamic Republic from iran to the united states. Now, where an election rematch is looking more likely , rematch is looking more likely, with donald trump winning three more republican contests overnight in missouri, michigan and in idaho, the former president s only rival, nikki haley, is still searching for her first win, trailing second in each state so far. Mr trump made several false claims at campaign rallies, including the allegation that President Biden is, he said , trying to overthrow is, he said, trying to overthrow the united states. Thats the united states. Thats despite mr trump himself being charged with conspiracy to defraud the us. Part of the 91 serious crimes hes accused of in four ongoing criminal trials. And finally , if you havent and finally, if you havent heard about the news already , heard about the news already, heres a quick look at last nights brit awards, where rae swept to a stunning turnaround victory for the 26 year old singer after she was dumped by her own record label. Im so her own record label. Im so proud of this album. Proud of this album. Im in love with music all i ever wanted to be was an artist, and now im an artist with an album of the year. Rae there, who claimed top honours including album and artist of the year and best new artist. In total, she scooped up an astonishing six gongs, which were the most wins in a single year ever at the brit awards and im those are the headlines more coming up in the next half hour. In the meantime , you can sign up in the meantime, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the code your screen, or go the code on your screen, or go to gb news. Com alerts. To gb news. Com slash alerts. Now though, its to dawn. Now though, its back to dawn. Thank you very much. Congratulations to ray , by congratulations to ray, by the way. I wish i could hum a single song shed ever done, but im afraid i cant. Probably not my market. Lets get my market. Right, lets get straight into todays story, shall we . Uh, jeremy hunt is set to to war over waste in woke to go to war over waste in woke whitehall in his Spring Budget on wednesday. Lots of ws there. On wednesday. Lots of ws there. Um, earlier on, gb news jeremy hunt told Camilla Tominey he wants to reform the Public Sector a bid to improve the sector in a bid to improve the productivity. Lets have a look what said. What he said. Bring the numbers of want to bring the numbers of Civil Servants down to the level that they were before the pandemic between 2010 and 2019, we saw sustained increases in pubuc we saw sustained increases in Public Sector productivity over that period. By the way, standards in our schools went up. Crime went down, we had more doctors and nurses in the nhs treating more people than ever before. The pandemic stopped that. And what im saying in the budget on wednesday is i want to restart the process of Public Sector reform because Public Sector reform because Public Sector productivity is 6 lower than pre pandemic hmmhmm. Than pre pandemic hmmhmm. The chancellor also played down the prospect of tax cuts, warning hell only do so in a sustained way. Okay, right. Sustained way. Okay, right. Joining me now, im pleased to say is political commentator Benedict Spence to explain in ordinary speak what the chancellor was actually on about. Benedict. Good afternoon. About. Benedict. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining about. Benedict. Good afternoon. Thank you forjoining us. Um, thank you for joining us. Um, what did you make of what jeremy hunt had to say to the wonderful camilla this morning . Oh i think it was. It will have come as a very disappointing, uh, it will have come as a very disappointing , uh, contribution, disappointing, uh, contribution, i to of people. I think, to a lot of people. Tend to think of, uh, i tend to think of, uh, anybody whos a game of thrones fan will remember for the first sort of five seasons, we were promised out that there are dragons coming. Dragons coming. Point, there are at some point, there are going dragons the going to be dragons in the series, going be series, and its going to be really and really really exciting and really interesting and dont worry, you really exciting and really inteihang; and dont worry, you really exciting and really inteihang on 1d dont worry, you really exciting and really inteihang on long nt worry, you really exciting and really inteihang on long enough. , you really exciting and really inteihang on long enough. And| just hang on long enough. And dragons then when just hang on long enough. And drag disappointing because everybody waite of too well, thats disappointing because everybody waiteoftoo thisa ell,thats disappointing because everybody waiteof too this alell, th the kind of what this is with the tories promises tax tories and their promises of tax cuts. Hearing for cuts. Weve been hearing for months worry. Cuts. Weve been hearing for mo the worry. Cuts. Weve been hearing for mo the tax orry. Cuts. Weve been hearing for mo the tax cuts theyre coming, the tax cuts theyre coming, theyre better. And now here we are the and now here we are on the eve budget. There eve of the budget. And there arent really arent going to be any really meaningful cuts. And were meaningful tax cuts. And were back whitehall meaningful tax cuts. And were back uh, whitehall meaningful tax cuts. And were back uh, know, whitehall meaningful tax cuts. And were back uh, know, andtehall meaningful tax cuts. And were back uh, know, and there waste. Uh, you know, and there is truth in dont get is some truth in that. Dont get me wrong. Hes right that, uh, the miserably, the state has failed miserably, certainly start certainly since the start of the pandemic. That is, of pandemic. Uh, but that is, of course, lets lets remember whos been charge throughout course, lets lets remember whoperiod. Charge throughout course, lets lets remember whoperiod. Thats ge throughout course, lets lets remember whoperiod. Thats beenoughout that period. Thats been happening watch of happening on, uh, the watch of the conservatives um, so, you know, good of them to know, its good of them to recognise that and to admit their failings and no doubt that there of waste in there is a lot of waste in things wokester teams, things like wokester teams, which of things that which are one of the things that hes to tackle hes supposedly going to tackle and, but its and, and productivity. But its come late. And this is come far too late. And this is not actually going to make any sort real, meaningful sort of real, meaningful difference, people and difference, uh, to people and their what their living situations. What people needed were tax cuts, several years ago, if they were going to be tax cuts what going to be tax cuts and what theyve are theyve had instead are tax rises repeatedly this rises repeatedly under this government bloat , government increasing the bloat, increasing the size of the state, lowering the state, whilst lowering the productivity state . I productivity of the state . I have no doubt that many of the things that jeremy hunt says he wants achieve in terms of wants to achieve in terms of cutting whitehall and cutting down whitehall waste and increasing productivity are achievable have achievable. But it would have been helpful been really helpful if they didnt was didnt wait until there was a matter between 6 9 months matter of between 6 to 9 months before election. Uh, before the general election. Uh, frankly, i think its come far before the general election. Uh, franlatei think its come far before the general election. Uh, franlate in1ink its come far before the general election. Uh, franlate in the its come far before the general election. Uh, franlate in the day. Come far too late in the day. I mean, we did see benedict. I mean, we did see the cut in the autumn the tpp cut in the autumn statement, didnt we, to national that didnt National Insurance that didnt do any favours, did National Insurance that didnt do it any favours, did National Insurance that didnt do it didnt any favours, did National Insurance that didnt do it didnt make favours, did National Insurance that didnt do it didnt make everyoneiid it . It didnt make everyone go, whoopee lets go vote whoopee do lets go and vote conservative. It didnt even register on the opinion polls. It didnt because peoples paper , because peoples taxes paper, because peoples taxes and the amount coming and the amount of money coming out packages in out of peoples pay packages in inflation had already gone up so exponentially that, in fact, it literally made no difference to the average person. So to now hean the average person. So to now hear, well, theyre hear, oh well, theyre sort of toying maybe 1 to 2 of toying with maybe 1 to 2 of income tax, but thats probably not going to happen anyway. And then this, you ask, then after all of this, you ask, well, is are tax well, why is why are these tax cuts not come anyway . Cuts not going to come anyway . And there isnt and that. Well, there isnt enough. The enough budget headroom. Why the office for budgetary responsibility says so. Right. Office for budgetary resp setibility says so. Right. Office for budgetary resp set upity says so. Right. Office for budgetary resp set up the ays so. Right. Office for budgetary resp set up the office. Right. Office for budgetary resp set up the office forght. Office for budgetary resp set up the office for budget who set up the office for budget responsibility . The conservative responsibility . The conservative party set that up in order to trap labour when labour tried to spend its way out of an economic gridlock the next time around, because they didnt anticipate being this long, they being in power this long, they thought were to thought labour were going to come and they thought, this come back and they thought, this will and itll will be really clever and itll show really in show that were really in control oh, whoops. Control of spending. Oh, whoops. Now that has of now its us that has let go of the strings. Everythings the purse strings. Everythings gone own gone horribly wrong. And our own Office Budgetary office for budgetary responsibility says, no, chaps, you do this. You cant do this. You know what, benedict . I think whoops just sums up todays politics. So im going todays politics. So im going to there. You to leave it there. Thank you very benedict very much. Thats Benedict Spence our political spence, our political commentator. What jeremy commentator. Explain what jeremy hunt was talking about this morning. Very well. There i think. And we end the word think. And we end on the word whoops. I dont need to say much more, do i . Sadly im more, do i . Sadly for you, im going ive also got my going to, um, ive also got my panel as well joined by a political emma political consultant, emma burnell social policy burnell and social policy analyst , rakib burnell and social policy analyst, rakib hasan. Thank you so much forjoining me on a lovely sunday afternoon. Soon lovely sunday afternoon. Soon now, jeremy hunt, hes on one, two, three, four sunday papers cut tax or lose the grey vote. Cut tax or lose the grey vote. Chancellor in last in last ditch fight to cut tax by £0. 02 tax cut tax cuts will backfire. Thats the observer by the way. Just in case you were wondering. Um and hunt goes to war on immoral whitehall waste. Lots and lots of words. What does rikki neave. Im going to come to you first on this one. Well, im at the stage where i dont believe a word anyone says anymore. What do you make of what youve heard jeremy hunt say today . And these front pages with with so many, im going to do a, b and c, but not a lot of detail. Well, it seems like a lot of the focus is on trimming down on woke initiatives public woke initiatives in the Public Sector. Honest , if you but to be honest, if you really shore our really want to shore up our national economy, to national economy, were going to need lot more that. Need to do a lot more than that. Now, sure now, dawn, im not sure actually. This is the time where we be talking about about actually. This is the time where we cuts. Be talking about about actually. This is the time where we cuts. If be talking about about actually. This is the time where we cuts. If truth king about about actually. This is the time where we cuts. If truth beg about about actually. This is the time where we cuts. If truth be told, ut about actually. This is the time where we cuts. If truth be told, it about tax cuts. If truth be told, i think that politicians all too often, when it comes to election time, they promise voters all sorts. And i dont think thats sorts. And i dont think thats actually re

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