Ministers questions. It is always a little different, the pmqs ahead of the budget. He has vacated the chair for the Deputy Speaker. She will be going through some of the notices ahead ofjeremy hunt, the chancellor, delivering his Budget Statement. He will take to his feet shortly and will probably speak for about an hour shortly and will probably speak for Aboutan Hourand shortly and will probably speak for about an hour and then it will be the turn of the leader of the opposition, keir starmer to respond. We will take both of those live and uninterrupted and we will then have reaction from the Chief Secretary to the treasury, laura trott, part of the treasury, laura trott, part of the Treasury Team and her shadow for labour. Here isjeremy hunt. Madam Deputy Speaker, as we mourn the loss of life in israel and gaza, the loss of life in israel and gaza, the Prime Minister reminded us of the Prime Minister reminded us of the need the Fight Extremism and heal divisions. I start today by r
For a few months ever since they proved that section m14 noticed proved that section 1414 noticed where they declared themselves bankrupt. We are at a point now where they have to make £300 million savings for the next two years and if they dont agree this budget they will be bankrupt. The money will run out and people wont get paid. They are gathering in the Council Chamber, we think they will Start Talking about the budget in about 20 minutes or half an hour. You will hear a lot of different politicians talking. Labourwill hear a lot of different politicians talking. Labour will probably blame the conservative government for the reduced income its had, the lower grants over recent years in terms of austerity. The conservatives will blame labourfor austerity. The conservatives will blame labour for its botched introduction of the oracle Payroll System which cost over £100 million and its failure to deal with equal pay abilities which are closing on another billion pounds. We will pr
thursday, a little bit like spot the difference. they hide to the north again. the isobars open up a little bit. what does that mean? lighter winds and that means it may not feel quite as chilly. some signs we could pull in some slightly clearer heir to the south of the uk from the continent. there might be more in the way of sunshine. just a chance thursday will feel more springlike but by the time we get to the end of the week, that area high pressure wriggles around to the west of us again, swings and winds around to northerly direction and if anything it looks like we will be set in some arctic air by the time we get to the weekend, with the prospect of something a bit more wintry on sunday. thanks, susan. and that s bbc news at ten on february 28th there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with faisal islam which is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regi
if you haven t played for four weeks or a lot of guys coming back i was shocked a little bit by the pace, but we will be better for it. the amount of injuries we had and to stick at it and have kian healy come in and play hooker, he can play low said, tight head and hooker now, it is amazing feat, so fair play to him. he kept as in the game, because we would have had to go down to m men if he didn t. i would rather talk about the first half than the second half, because the second half was disappointing. we had opportunities in the first half and it was a real high energy performance. ireland played well, too. what you call a proper test match. and then, both teams were a little bit fatigued in the beginning of the second half, and it was there for us to lift the energy, and we didn t. we weren t accurate enough at times, and ireland grew in confidence and were obviously clearly the better team in that second half. arsenal restored their five point advantage at the top of the