after standing by the policy. but with a growing number of senior conservatives criticising the plan, the chancellor admitted this morning that it had to go as it had become a distraction from other parts of the government s economic plan. and so the chancellor used a key speech at the conservative party conference in birmingham to try and move beyond that distraction , take a listen. what a day. it has been tough but we need to focus on thejob in hand. i know the plan put forward only ten days ago has caused a little turbulence i get it. i get it. we re listening and have listened. i refused to accept that it is somehow britain s destiny i refuse to accept that it is somehow britain s destiny to fall back into middle league status or that the tax burden reaching a 70 year high is somehow inevitable. it isn t and it shouldn t be. we needed a new. applause. conference, we needed a new approach focused on raising economic growth. just over a week after hitting an all time lo
committee and other former cabinet members. they are in negotiations to do the same. yet, there are some things that neither the justice department nor the january six committee may ever find out. the washington post reported this week that even more testimony and text messages sent and received by federal employees around the time of the insurrection were deleted. they may be gone forever. this latest news involves the phone records of former acting homeland security secretary, chad wulf, and his acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. the situation closely resembles the recent revelations of the secret service may have also deleted and failed to preserve text messages that may be relevant to the january six investigation. including, from the phones of agents who were signed to donald trump on the day of the insurrection. for more on this, i am joined now by his betsy who is a national correspondent for politico. she is also an msnbc contributor. so, betsy, let s start with
gradually arriving. overnight temperatures around 9 degrees under clear skies, 16 where we keep the showers. the showers keep going, hit and miss across central and southern england, bit of height out, the best sunshine further north and east, some of the rain heavy across western fringes of scotland and northern ireland. here eyes of 18 but we could see 26 or 27, it will be hot and humid yet again. but take a look at the weekend, low pressure sitting out to the west spiralling around that low, a series of weather fronts, bringing some heavy rain at times, pretty relentless across northern ireland and western scotland. not exclusively, there will be showers in wales and south west england and a few sharp showers elsewhere. if you keep some sunshine will still have some warmth into the weekend, 25 degrees, still 77 fahrenheit. and there are more showers and strong winds to come as well as we head into the weekend, so a little bit more of an autumnal flavour to our weather and
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