the party of business. the shadow chancellor has ruled out tax rises on labour s watch. but what if they need more money? and the lib dem leader makes a splash on the electoral trail in windermere. with us tonight our regional editors, who have been watching the campaign, judging the reaction. welcome to the programme. after a weekend talking up a new policy on national service another offer from the conservatives this morning. in staffordshire the prime minister pledged that pensioners would benefit from triple lock plus, if the conservatives are returned to government next month. in essense it means that those on the state pension would not be dragged into paying tax in 2027, when under the existing government policy pensions will rise above the tax free personal allowance. the cost is put at £2.1i billion. labour says the plan is not credible. at the rolls royce factor in derby shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, was telling her audience that labour is now the natural part
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inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that s because we got usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what s happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we ve known each other now through a lot of presidential races. a long time. no, i don t tell anybody how long we ve known each other. also, got alex axis, he s a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we ve got some of the dishes this morning. i m going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. parse that one out. yeah. i can t keep working on that. let s get right t
that we see from the white house not only this week but on these jobs fridays, the first friday of every month, in this case the second friday of the month because february was so short. the president often schedules these events at manufacturing plants and as ron reported, manufacturing is one of the bright spots in the economy. we can expect the president to do what he has done for the past several months now as the unemployment rate continues to decline. the white house telling us accentuating the positive, it s gone down 0.8% since last august. almost half a million jobs in the manufacturing sector have been created over the course of the last two years. 24 straight months of private sector growth as well. the president is going down to a rolls royce factory and this is something that he did the other day in north carolina. emphasizing foreign investment into manufacturing. as for the politics of this, the president obviously the first democrat to win virginia since 1964 and lbj an