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
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good morning from germany where we are waking up with the scotland fans ahead are waking up with the scotland fans ahead of are waking up with the scotland fans ahead of their second match in the european ahead of their second match in the european championship. will the scotland european championship. will the scotland party continue? we will find out scotland party continue? we will find out this morning. it s wednesday, the 19th ofjune. the latest inflation figures will be released this morning, giving an idea of the state of the economy before voters head to the polls in just over two weeks. analysts are expecting the figures for last month to show that inflation has fallen back to the bank of england s 2% target for the first time in nearly three years. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david has more. have you got food left or is it all gone? gary in sussex used to have seven butchers shops. now he has four. forced to make cuts as he s been caught bet
we start with some breaking news. the bbc has learned that a police officer working as part they were telling us they were contacted by the gambling, and these are these officers that are allocated in this and don t like incense. in this is it. obviously, they will hear things about what a prime minister is played inc. . they were looking into these alleged bets around one of their officers. the metro police telling me that they matter was immediately referred to officers in the directorate of professional standards. they open investigation. to put it in another language, while suspended, the officer was arrested on monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. he was taken into custody and vales further. the gambling commission is leading the investigation. the investigation by the police is running in parallel to the. news that we can bring you the an officer very close to the prime minister charge with over bets on the timing of the general election. clearly, a co
britain has stepped significantly closer to leaving the european union. parliament has given its final approval to a crucial law that allows the government to trigger brexit. mps in the house of commons overturned amendments from the upper house, the lords, seeking guarantees on the rights of eu nationals in the uk, and on how much say parliament will have on the final terms of the brexit deal. this from our political correspondent chris mason. so, it was the final stage of the whole process of getting a law to give the british prime minister, theresa may, permission to say to brussels that the uk is going to leave the european union. now, you might think, well, that s a bit odd. didn t british people leave the european union almost a year ago, so why couldn t she have just done it anyway? well, there was a challenge in the courts, that decided that there had to be this law for the brexit process to start. that took place a couple of months ago. since then, the legislation ha