record high, and the office for budget responsibility says it would represent the largest fall in living standards since the 19505. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. these reforms will save around two million self employed people an average of £350 a yearfrom april. better than nothing. tuning into the autumn statement at walthamstow market. a good place to test the mood. pensioners seemed happy. him increasing pension, that s good for me. and young workers like the rise in the minimum wage too. 10% more i m going to win i m going to earn. yeah. who wouldn t like it? but other workers said the cut to national insurance isn t enough. not with the way things are at the moment. the cost of living is too expensive. £450, divide that by 12, divide it by the family that you ve got. is it enough? i don t think so. here are the key details. first, that national insurance cut. it s going from 12% to ten for all employees from january. the self employed will see a
Middle class tearaway . Yes, its ernesto che guevara. His younger brother lifts the lid on what he was really like. Translation the shirt that we used to call the weekly shirt, because he would wear it the whole week without washing it. He was very untidy and people used to call him pig. Hello. Elections are meant to be the best of times to debate the grand strategic questions facing the nation. But maybe theyre the worst. The sublime arguments can get supplanted by the squalid struggle for votes. Even parties 20 ahead in the polls cant resist bribing the public. Is that what is happening here with regard to pensioners . An important question for this election is who should get more of the pie the old or the young. The old have been doing relatively well, partly thanks to the so called triple lock, which ensures the State Pension keeps rising by the inflation rate, or with earnings, or at 2. 5 , whichever is higher. Its kicked in while working age welfare and wages have fallen back. So
Intervention in the election to tilted towards trump made him out of the notches. That enraged trump. The interesting and controversial thing is the involvement ofjeff sessions. He excused himself from the russia investigation because he was a key figure in the Trump Campaign and his involvement in the Firing Of Comey has raised a lot of questions and criticism from congress. He got flack for saying he had met the Russian Ambassador but had not mentioned it. Exactly. Lastly, trump dug his dug himself into a bigger codger mercy with a veiled threat to james comey that he might not leak because they might be tapes. That has set up a whole round of speculation about what kind of Taping System he has, good the comparisons with nixon get any more stark . You have Top Democrats in Congress Calling on him to release whatever tapes he may have. I think that this is getting very troubling andi that this is getting very troubling and i think, his credibility is under question. He has appeared to
This week a sacking in washington, a timely Election Leak in the uk, and Donald Trumps visits to the middle east and the vatican. Debating all of that are stephanie baker, from the International News Agency Bloomberg news, janet daley, Political Columnist with britains sunday telegraph newspaper, Jonathan Sacredoti from i 24 news, an israeli International News channel and Mustapha Karkouti from the dubai based newspaper, gulf news. Donald trump sacked plenty of would be Business Moguls on the Reality Tv Series the apprentice, barking youre fired to theirface. James comey received his dismissal as director of the fbi in a note. Getting rid of Tv Contestants doesnt have many consequences; sacking the head of the countrys key Crime Fighting agency when hes investigating those around you, well thats proving harder to forget. What was he thinking . He did not handle this well. He is not good at firing people. The messaging was incredibly messy. He tried it out and then various trump surroga