the chancellor, rachel reeves, has promised to make kick starting economic growth a national mission . a key part of that is a plan to reintroduce compulsory house building targets, as our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. how do you go about building prosperity? loosening red tape to revive private investment in home building and energy infrastructure form the foundation of today s plans, aimed at underpinning a decade of renewal. it will be up to local communities to decide where the housing is built but it has to be built. if the answer is always no, we ll continue as we are and continuing as we are means living standards continuing to decline and it means public services continuing to deteriorate. the plans involve reviving mandatory house building targets, allowing development on so called grey belt, parts of the protected green belt already built on, and lifting a ban on onshore wind powered developments. she knows she may be in for a fight. how pr
he will pay for them calling the case for cutting taxes weak. the chancellor faces continued pressure from within the conservative party to cut taxes in what is likely to be the final budget before the next general election. let s unpack this withjoshua mahony chief market analyst at scope markets. good morning to you. no surprise at all that there is pressure and speculation ahead of next week budget, but what you make of what the institute for fiscal studies is warning? this actually comes in line to something we ve heard from the imf for around two weeks ago where what they similarly warned against any sort of significant cut in terms of taxes. of course, back in autumn, we saw that headline announcement that they were going to cut 2% of the national insurance rate and coming at a time when they were under pressure in the polls, they would love to be able to do something similar in terms of a cut on something like income tax or the like. they have been afforded some wi
look at what it is like to take over a long running family business. time now to get down to business. we begin with energy. it will be clean and safe and power 1.8 million homes in the north of england and the midlands. that is the plan presented by the uk government and the netherlands who have announced the world s largest multiuse electricity powerline built under the north sea. the will connect the uk in the netherlands with offshore wind farms providing energy to britain aiming to reduce household bills. this announcement comes at the start of the second north sea summit which kicks off today in belgium, the founding countries are belgium, denmark and the netherlands will be joined by france, uk ireland norway and luxembourg and the largest ever coalition around energy in the northeast off let s talk to jess ralston head of energy at the energy and climate intelligence unit. first of all, uk government is saying it s the s largest of its kind, powerline is delivering c