hello. hello, laura. and hello, henry. hi, henry. hi. so last night, i was at my friend tom s birthday party, and he s a very good amateur poet, and he did a lovely poem saying thank you to everyone who d come to the party. happy birthday, tom. but he s also a big newscast fan and an even biggerfan of sunday with laura kuenssberg. even happier birthday. so i thought, why not combine all those things together and do a poem about this week s sunday with laura kuenssberg? oh, my god. here we go. are you ready? eat your heart out front row. white howard s double barrelled chef on sunday with laura kay. politicians exaggerations going to get slayed. but first, this breaking news, a picture of recovering kate. but with all the twitter gossip, did it come too late? rachel reeves bets all on economic growth. vicky atkins asked why nhs productivity sloweth, but waits this weekend episode has no pad, fear not newscasters you can always call up add. i think that s extremely good, tom. a
will save the average worker about £75. but is that the budget rabbit that conservative backbenchers were after? the answer plainly is no, but the truth is, there was simply not enough money to deliver the cut in income tax they had demanded. after the measures announced today, the office for budget responsibility estimated the chancellor has just £8.9 billion of headroom left, down from the 13 billion he had in the autumn statement. that the second smallest on record, yet the chancellor gave us a relatively optimistic view of the economy, after covid, a war in europe, and the damage inflicted on the british economy economy this, he said, was a budget for long term growth. today s obr forecast also shows that we have made good progress on the prime minister s three economic priorities. compared to when the three pledges were made, inflation has halved, debt is falling in line with our fiscal rules, and growth is fully 1.5 percentage points higher than predicted. clamourin
d yeller. whistleblowers continue to allege serious crimes committed joe and hunter, including bribery, tax violations, money laundering. we ll learn a lot more next week. and let s not forget bri cocaine and now other drugs we find out or discovered in the west wingbu of joe s white house. but of course, they haven t found the culprit and are not looking anymore. biden s trip abroad was an outright disaste r. disast and take a look ater w your screen. this was in finland,as i joe, nibbling, if you will, and trying to kiss a terrifiedon looking toddler. creepy joe is back, butjill be clear. joe biden s always been creepy, weird and not veryiden alw smart but to make matters worse, his cognitive decline has nowno rendered him totally, completely inept. rendered you decide. president zelenskyy. soon after that, i like to be in nato. soon after that i like to joinei nato an hour and 20 minutes away for insightful questions. vladimir and i, we should shouldn t be so familia
northern ireland but arriving late in the day. temperatures, high teens to low 20s and it will feel warm in the may sunshine and the sunshine is stronger this time of the year so there will be high levels of uv. are out for any level of time might be worth considering suncream. similar on sunday, best of the sunshine in england and wales, scotland and northern ireland cloudy and bright, one or two bits of rain and the temperature is similar, it s going to be quite a one weekend for most of us. nice one, chris, thanks for that. chris fawkes. that s it. more analysis of the main stories on newsnight coming up on bbc two with faisal islam but now the news continues here on bbc one as we join our colleagues across the nations and regions for all of the news where you are. i have a very good night. the economic ascent of china with significant consequences for production of electric vehicles, batteries and microchips. in this new world, does the uk have a strategy? china calls the
the hdtv. for the first time in television history, and maybe in my adult life, i am working tonight without collar stays. and i don t have any idea how this collar is going to look by the time we get to 10:30. dan, our director, i just instructed him to stay as far away from the collar as possible. listen, i couldn t tell if you didn t tell me, but talk to me at ten, 10:40, and: 45. i m lucky because jelani cobb, these candidates that might have extra collars. metal collar stays. not the ones you get from the dry cleaners. he says he has metal collar stays. okay. you re in good hands, lawrence. thank you. orange jesus is trying to knock me out of this job again. we now know, thanks to liz cheney s new book, which will be published next week, that republicans in the house of representatives refer to donald trump as orange jesus and follow his every command religiously, even when they know he is lying. we ll hear more about that directly from liz cheney next monday