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tomorrow will be the last time the chancellor brandishes the budget red box outside number 11 before the election. will there be any surprises inside? it is the eve of what is probably the government s last set piece before a general election, and speculation over tax cuts surroundsjeremy hunt s budget. i asked rishi sunak ally, the former minister liam fox, whther it was time to unfreeze tax thresholds. well, if i had my choice and if i were the chancellor, tomorrow that is what i would be doing. we ll be asking labour s shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation whether a labour government would change the fiscal rules in order to cut taxes? also tonight. it looks like it s going to be a pretty super tuesday for donald trump, so can anyone or anything stop him in his tracks on the way to the republican nomination? music the latest production at the birmingham rep. after birmingham council cuts its culture budget to zero, is austerity for the arts coming to a tow ....
however, we should tell our viewers. we are going to do a different dance, are we? i know you are a keen ballroom dancer. there is a widespread expectation you are likely to cut national insurance, there is a widespread expectation you are going to nick labour s policy of tightening up the rules for so called non doms, people who earn huge fortunes abroad. but aren t permanent residents. you said these are foreigners who could leave easily in ireland, france, portugal, or spain, they all have these schemes, i d rather they stayed here and spent their money here. do you want to take that back? as i said, laura, i m not going to talk about individual taxes. 0h, oh, i m asking on principle. out of principle do you agree withjeremy hunt from 2022? i don t disagree withjeremy hunt from nearly everything i said in the past, but sometimes. let me say this, the country sees through gimmicks and we are not going to do gimmicks on wednesday. it s going to be a budget for responsi ....
that the 4.7 billion pounds saved by axeing the northern leg of the project will instead be redirected towards electric charging points and the refurbishment of things bus stations. henri murison is chief executive of the northern executive of the northern powerhouse partnership. even as i read that, it feels, as a northerner, that i was promised a porsche and i am getting a people carrier. but i suppose 4.7 billion is not to be sniffed out. it carrier. but i suppose 4.7 billion is not to be sniffed out.- is not to be sniffed out. it would be very exciting is not to be sniffed out. it would be very exciting news is not to be sniffed out. it would be very exciting news despite i is not to be sniffed out. it wouldl be very exciting news despite the fact it is not a porsche. if it were actually news. because this was actually news. because this was actually announced back in october last year and on this programme, you did a finejob of last year and on this programme, ....
information being made public. it is certainly embarrassing. this sort of information should never be in the public domain and to have the ministry of defence looking at how it leaked out and also the journalist who published the story need to think about whether it was in the best interests of this country. nuclear deterrence is all about perception and if vladamir putin now believes that the british nuclear deterrent does not work, then that will guide his thinking. i also find it rather strange that the person responsible for the defence of britain, grant shapps, was at the bottom of the ocean for a few days early recently when the threat of war with russia has never been higher and the middle east is about to explode but when it comes to the reliability of trident, it is an old weapon, 30 years old, due to be replaced very soon, but probably as politicians and others cannot comment, when you fire inert missiles and inner weapons, there are always intrinsic problems that y ....
spaces aren t keeping up. the bumps, prangs and confrontations. in sport. erling haaland puts the boot in scoring for manchester city to hot up the title race. and with it a warning from his manager, don t critcisise the striker. he s spent his career treating the tiniest babies born in newcastle but then dr nick embleton needed some life saving treatment of his own. we ll hear his remarkable story. good morning. we are all going to see some heavy rain today pushing in from the south west heading east, behind it brightening up but showers, and for all as it will be very windy with widespread gales. it s wednesday the 21st of february. the families of three people who were fatally stabbed in nottingham last year say they are optimistic that a review of the killer s sentence will provide justice. valdo calocane admitted the manslaughter of ian coates, barnaby webber and grace o malley kumar, and was handed a hospital order. the attorney general says that was unduly leni ....