the story of the weather now! here s simon king. yes, and five might go on a wintry adventure in cumbria this weekend! mixture of rain, sleet and snow. through the week, it will get a bit less cold. i will start with a temperature anomaly. the blues is where it has been colder than average, the white to red, warmer than average. through the week, we start to see the oranges come back to the map, so we lose the very cold air and sea temperatures rising. today, this area of low pressure has brought quite a bit of rain, especially towards parts of wiltshire, dorset, somerset. that heavy rain moved eastwards, will stay cloudy and quite showery for many parts of england and wales. still quite a bit of snow over the higher ground of scotland and northern england. showers coming in here, but sunny spells for much of scotland and northern ireland. maximum temperatures this afternoon 6-8. maximum temperatures this afternoon 6 8. through this evening, we continue with that cloud. outbr
but iyou ve got it on a trajectory, it s gone up and it s then going to go down. well. hang on. just let s just explain exactly what happened. so in that 2020 budget, when rishi sunak was chancellor, it was the biggest ever increase. now, i then had to balance the books a year ago. it was an incredibly difficult situation, but it was necessary for the markets and it was necessary for the battle against inflation. so what i chose to do was to freeze that capital budget in cash terms, which is not a freeze in real terms. i hope as soon as we can afford to, we can get back to real terms growth. but i m absolutely committed to public investment. in a speech coming up shortly, the labour leader sir keir starmer is expected to say his party will have an obsession with economic growth to raise living standards. he will also say that labour won t be able to turn on the spending taps if it wins the next election. we ll bring that speech to you live here on bbc news. the gaza run hea