would employ fewer people. we see this as a major priority. i have already spoken to tata steel about it, as has the new prime minister made time for that conversation. i will be talking to them again today, asking representatives of the workforce, sharon and unite, also community and gmb, to talk to me next week about that. it is not about underwriting loss making businesses in perhaps a way we might have thought of industrial policy in the past. it is about being a partner for investment in future. there is more money available for the steel industry under our plans for government. but that is about making sure we meet this transition with the private sector together and recognise i think sharon used the phrase it is a good example of how we have to make sure that decarbonisation is not deindustrialisation, and we ve got to do that together. but there is a better deal for port talbot and the steel industry as a whole, i am sure of that. meanwhile, the tata steel uk ceo
we see this as a major priority. i have already spoken to tata steel about it, as has the new prime minister made time for that conversation. i will be talking to them again today, asking representatives of the workforce, sharon and unite, but also community and gmb, to talk to me next week about that. it is not about underwriting loss making businesses in perhaps a way we might have thought of industrial policy in the past. it is about being a partner for investment in the future. there is more money available for the steel industry under our plans for government. but that is about making sure we meet this transition with the private sector together and recognise i think sharon used the phrase it is a good example of how we have to make sure that decarbonisation is not deindustrialisation, and we ve got to do that together. but there is a better deal for port talbot and the steel industry as a whole, i am sure of that. meanwhile, the tata steel uk ceo rajesh nair said in
work we have done ever so many years, because that was an incredible election result. an historic result and a real, real mandate for change. we start here. not long ago, wejust had one red. and now look. we have a team of 37. and now look. we have a team of 37. and i campaigned, and in that campaigni and i campaigned, and in that campaign i said i want scotland to send a government, to start delivering for scotland. and we have this team to be part of a sitting on the government benches, all working to deliver for scotland. this team here. the whole of the labour party in government. and myself. delivering for scotland. you do not win elections. they do notjust drop from the sky. there is nothing inevitable about an election win. nothing inevitable about what happened here in scotland. we won because we change the labour party. we won because we can paint as changed later. because anas and jackie and all of you changed scottish labour and put it in a position to win that ele
vaping and smoking, but the office for budget responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. here s our business correspondent, emma simpson. did you catch any ofjeremy s budget? it was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the conservative party. but was it enough? i think it s good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. but then if you think about the cost of living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, we re in a position where we re living off savings. i think they re trying to do it in light of a general election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit - to the country is. the centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to national insurance, a tax paid by workers. so who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax