challenges for customers to earn bonus points could be pushing people to spend more than they can afford. that s the warning from consumer groups. i ll be taking a look. in sport it s the start of a new adventure for emma hayes. we hear how she s settling in to her new manager role in the united states as she prepares to lead them into the olympics this summer. to lead them into the quite to lead them into the a cloudy start this morning. some quite a cloudy start this morning. some outbreaks of rain out there, but things should brighten up. a bit of sunshine developing in the afternoon. all of the details shortly. it s thursday 30th may. our main story. the conservatives and labour have both ruled out increasing vat if they are elected in five weeks time. the promises have raised questions about how the parties will fund their spending plans, and deliver on their commitments if they win the elction. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has this report. midnight
Had scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon. For the scottish conservatives, Ruth Davidson. For the Scottish Labour party, Kezia Dugdale. Representing the scottish liberal democrats, Willie Rennie. This Ukip David Coburn and for the scottish greens, Patrick Harvie. Applause we also want all of you to join in at home. You can argue along with the debate using social media. The hashtag is Leaders Debate. We will come back shortly and take opening state m e nts come back shortly and take Opening Statements from all of our panel, but first jackie bird statements from all of our panel, but Firstjackie Bird is statements from all of our panel, but first jackie bird is with the watching press. Thank you. From the majesty of the Debating Hall to be more modest surroundings of the press room or the so called spin room. Its here that the journalists and bloggers and Party Politicians will be scrutinising the performances of their Party Leaders and crafting tamaras headlines. I feel a their Par
What we are seeing is not a boost of the magnitude to solve all problems, but what it is is the ability to reduce the impact we have seen of inflation on those budgets and platters in a better position to start to get to grips with those waiting lists to really be delivering on everything people want the nhs to be getting on with. so where will the money go? it - the nhs to be getting on with. so where will the money go? it will i the nhs to be getting on with. so i where will the money go? it will go, for example. where will the money go? it will go, for example, into where will the money go? it will go, for example, into tackling where will the money go? it will go, for example, into tackling those - for example, into tackling those waiting list. we note the elective waiting list. we note the elective waiting list, and the gp waiting list, mental health waiting list. people coming out of the pandemic, coming out of the years before have been waiting for their care and are quite
On the matter of this crisis. he has already said he thinks the key workers should get priority at the pumps and i think that is a very easy message to try and drive home tomorrow because we are seeing, you know, as the front pages are showing, cancer operations being cancelled. that is huge, that is devastating for people, that is something they really worry about, we know the nhs is one of the top concerns when it comes to voting in the election. as richard says, obviously, he is trying this idea of mental health waiting list tomorrow but it will be interesting to see just how much he diverges from the policies that he wants to set out and attacks the government on their handling of the supply chain issues. just briefly, before we close, let s go back to the metro front page, something to look forward to, the