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The Prime Minister has warned that the budget this october will be painful, in his first major speech from no 10 since becoming Prime Minister. Speaking in the rose garden, he said his government had inherited a black hole in the public finances, of 22 billion. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden, he cautioned, but he also said there would be big asks of everyone. The conservatives responded by saying the speech was an indication that labour had been planning tax rises all along. Vicki young has our top story. Blue skies and sunshine, but the Prime Minister didnt come here to paint a rosy picture. He has accused the conservatives of wrecking the ec ....
Welcome to the programme. The Israeli Defence forces say they have rescued a hostage who has been held by hamas in gaza for more than ten months. His name is qaid Farhan Alkadi he is a bedouin arab who was abducted during the october 7th attacks, while working as a Security Guard at a kibbutz in southern israel. He is recovering in hospital, where he has been undergoing tests. The Israeli Army Says the 52 year old was rescued from an Underground Tunnel in the Southern Gaza strip, in whats been described as an extremely complex operation. Here is our middle east correspondent ....
Good evening. Big asks are going to be made of the public in octobers budget, the Prime Minister said today, in a major speech in the number 10 garden. Sir keir starmer warned that his government had inherited a black hole in the public finances of 22 billion. He said those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden. The conservatives responded by saying his speech was an indication that labour had been planning tax rises all along. In a moment, well look ahead to what may be in the budget with our Business Editor simonjack, but first, our deputy Political Editor Vicki Young Reports on the Prime Ministers speech. Blue skies and sunshine, but the Prime Minister didnt come here to paint a rosy picture. He has accused the conservatives of wrecking the economy, leaving him to put it right. There is a budget coming in o ....
and outside the island. mr mosley presented programmes on health, and his books on intermittent fasting for weight loss have sold millions of copies worldwide. his family had said the last few days have been unbearable. dr michael mosley s former co presenter on trust me i m a doctor dr saleyha ahsan joined us earlier. i just want to begin with sending my deepest, sincerest condolences to michael s family, the last few days and today have been horrendous for them. i think, for those of us that worked with michael and know him as the resourceful, inventive man he is, we just hoped that there would be good news at the end of this, just kept thinking he would find a way to make it out and we would have a hell of a story from him, so even though things were stacked against him as the days rolled on, just kept hoping the news would be good. there has been no formal identification of this body, which we learned had been found today, but the sheer number of people who have ....
But i can t help but think about that quote that the president had last year, you business owners, you didn t build that yourself. the government did. well, we didn t. we did it the old-fashioned way. we emptied our savings, mortgaged our homes, and we hoped it worked without any government help. but every step that we take it seems like we re working against the government. do you feel as though the government is trying to crush businesses like yourself? i don t know about crush us, but they re certainly not helping us. you see the movement toward jacking up the minimum wage. they ve rolled back the bush tax cuts. they re buried a lot of tax surprises in the code to pay for obamacare. it s certainly not helpful. i know harry reid takes the senate floor and he says these obamacare suffering stories, they re lies. what do you have to say to him? i could agree with harry reid, but then we d both be wrong. people are losing their insurance after the president said they wouldn t. ....