Pledge, promise, and vow. Three words freighted with probity and trust. But, after anything but an explosive budget, a firecracker blew up in the chancellors face today over the issue of a promise. The question being, why does the government deny breaking a manifesto pledge on National Insurance when the 2015 Election Manifesto clearly said there would be no increase in National Insurance for the five years of an incoming conservative government . Is it ever right to to promise one thing and do another . The chancellor has raised the hackles of the right wing press, Tory Backbenchers of many stripes, and the opposition alike. Theresa may is in brussels tonight where, at a press conference, probably for the first time in her life, she was hoping for questions about brexit, but was pressed on this instead. Im joined by our political editor, nick watt. What did she had to say about National Insurance . She is standing by the fundamental principle of this Budget Change which is that the Se
fishermen with massive quotas, smaller ones with smaller quotas. some were unhappy about how much of the quota was put on the table and negotiated away to the european union side. that said, they did eventually accept what was agreed with the european union with some caveats. there are subclauses, the you can talk about fish all day, there is also the question about some of the fish producers in the uk, so the places where fish is landed, they have had a lot of trouble getting their product into the european market. some of the fish caught in europe is exported back to the uk, some of the fish thatis back to the uk, some of the fish that is caught in the uk is exported to france, there is a complicated network that goes on, various levels of unhappiness and happiness. not everyone got what they wanted in this deal, although i think the
weighing in on iran. tensions are heating up in the gulf again after attacks on two oil tankers. let s discuss foreign-policy realities with daniel hoffman and cia officer sexton. thank you for being with us. you heard what some of the folks had to say. joshua keating says this, the 2020 democrats want to reenter the iran deal. it may not be possible since every major democratic candidate has pledged to reenter the deal. an easy applause line, the deal is very popular and pledging to reenter it is an easy way to destroy a distinction was trump s foreign-policy. the deal was not popular enough in the senate for it to be approved as a treaty. it didn t deal with iran s nefarious, aggressive military activity in the region, they are a state-sponsored terrorism, didn t deal with their ballistic missile program and there were some subclauses on the nuclear program and chuck schumer did
part of this video. that s right. my understanding from prior reporting, he s going to spend hours on day one issuing executive orders that repeal prior executive orders. i think that s where he s going to do at least symbolically a lot of the rollback of obama priorities he campaigned against. some of what he talked about today, tpp was dead on arrival in the first place. that s an sy one to talk about. some of these other things like the regulatory promise i think are in some ways harder to enact than he might think. it s a great sound bite. it sounds great you can just repeal some of these regulations. they don t come out of nowhere. there s this myth that bureaucrats are sitting around mindlessly coming up with regulations for no reason. they re intended to clarify laws that have been passed. court orders that have been issued. you know, technical problems that are in the implementation of law. we ll see how it works out. i could easily see, for example, somebody saying i m going