Economy and help families with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. Ben king reports. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means Better Health care services. Itsjust much more important. I would prefer not to have a tax cut, but to see more money invested in the community. If the Public Services were properly organised, theres more than enough money to do it
Good evening. The chancellor has been putting his final touches to his budget as he prepares to unveil it tomorrow it could well be the last one before the General Election. What is now expected is a 2p cut to National Insurance and another freeze on fuel duty. But could jeremy hunt go even further . Our Political Editor chris mason is here with his thoughts but before we hear from Chris Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam has been weighing up how much room for Manoevre The Chancellor has. The chancellor is hoping to use his Big Red Box Moment tomorrow to declare a definitive economic Turning Point after years of crisis and shocks. Certainly the path and forecast for Inflation Looks like that. Look at this inflation is falling back from its Energy Shock Highs towards the Bank Of England target. On the other hand, its a little tricky to talk about a Turning Point when as you see here, the economy just started shrinkng at the end of last year you can see a shallow recession, but one noneth
But he says you never know what the future holds. The norwegian s contracted to the club until 2027 but real madrid are thought to be long term admirers. Haaland, whos preparing to face Fc Copenghagen in the Champions League tomorrow has scored 80 goals in 84 appearances for city including 28 this season. Therell probably be be a massive headline. You never know what the future brings, but again, im happy. You can write this, but you can always have to write Everything Else before. Im happy, and yeah, thats what i want to do. Its a huge night in the Champions League for Thomas Tuchel and his Bayern Munich side, who have it all to do against lazio with a place in the Quarer Finals at stake. They trail 1 0 at the halfway stage of that last 16 tie. Bayern are ten points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the bundesliga with ten games to go, their season could effectively be over if it doesnt go their way later. But tuchel, whos leaving at the end of the season, says theyll give it everything. I l
they have a deal. now they need the votes. the republican-led house is expected vote this week on the new debt deal as the treasury secretary warns that the united states is going to default on the debt one week from today. huge explosions in kyiv as russia launches a rare daytime attack on the capitol. we have the assessments of the damage. and now, it is memorial day in honor of the soldiers who have died in service to the nation. and this is the tomb of the unknown soldier. the president and first lady will participate in a wreath laying ceremony. we will bring that to you are right here on cnn news central. the clock is ticking, but there are real signs of progress. a breakthrough in the negotiations over the debt ceiling over the weekend, and deal among the leaders, but will the other lawmakers follow their lead? one week from today, the united states could default on the debt which is unprecedented as we have talked about so much. president biden and house speak
mexico. there s more long lines because of its closure. now the biden administration has decided to close the reports of injury and reassign those agents to process migrants. i want you to look over my shoulder because you will see there are thousands of migrants waiting to be transported for immigration processing. i can tell you from here, i can see women and children last check from sources on the ground and from the sheriff about 5000 migrants were waiting in eagle pass, texas. in the last 24 hours, 12,600 migrants were apprehended. just to give you a sense on december 8th, i interviewed jason owens. he said at that point in time, 7000 migrants had been apprehended within a 24 hour time period. that gives you a sense of the overwhelming number of migrants that have crossed who are waiting to be processed now, you are talking about the bottleneck when it comes to the number of migrants who are actually in custody. when you talk about these custody numbers. your not includi