Its been a big news week on both sides of the atlantic with the budget dominating the domestic agenda, and in the united states, the president s state of the Union Address and super tuesday. The latter, a series of primary votes in 15 states and one territory, crucial in selecting the candidates for this autumn s president ial election, pretty much confirmed what we already knew that were heading for a Rerun Contest of biden versus trump. The bbc s coverage elicited this response from graham, in chingford. Last week, we broadcast a plea from viewer alan watts for a ban on the word expected and on speculation in general in regard to coverage leading up to the budget. As we speculated might be the case, his appeal fell on deaf ears. So, do we have any sense of which taxes might be cut . The government wants a positive headline, so we understand they are carrying on with trying to cut personal taxes. Weve got the chancellor in two days time. If he was listening tonight, what are you hopin
assaulting his former partner, and her sister. we report from wyoming where a key political battle is taking place seen as a test of donald trump is s continuing appeal. and 20 years of radio 1xtra celebrating black music and culture. and coming up on the bbc news channel: mixed relay gold for great britain in the 4x200m freestyle at the european aquatics championships in rome. good evening. there are more figures out today confirming the squeeze on people s living standards they show the real value of wages has fallen at its fastest rate since records began just over 20 years ago. the office for national statistics says average wages have risen recently as you can see by this red line by 4.7% between april and june this year. but that s been massively outpaced by inflation. as you can see the blue line, which represents the rate at which prices are rising, is running well above wage growth and is fully expected to increase further with the latest figures out tom
family . he also talked about labour s pledges being fully funded and fully costed, and also talked about the party making hard choices if elected. plenty to unpack from the past a0 or so minutes. let s stay with his pictures of angela rayner and the shadow cabinet shaking hands with various people, including some of those speakers from the very beginning of the event. let s cross live to ione wells, who is at the launch. lots to unpack today. as i said earlier, the themes have already been out in public. we know exactly what he was going to say. but it felt to me, and i don t know if it felt to you, keir starmer is a man who is very assured about what he wants? that is right. as you say, and apologies, it is quite loud music behind me, there wasn t really any big surprises in this manifesto, and i think that was sort of the point that labour were trying to achieve today. keir starmer made trying to achieve today. keir starmer made a trying to achieve today. keir starmer
it s the panorama special, first of all the leaders. but vicky, lib dem manifesto launch today. i remember last time we had one of these for general election. it was in a nightclub. it was a nightclub. it was, yeah. yeah. where was it this time? i love nightclubs. no, this was central london ish. it was quite it seemed quite modern. it was modern. it was a very good space. i think they d splashed a bit of cash on it. yeah, it was all. it was all quite slick. what did notice and this is, and i haven t asked them if this was deliberate, the colours they ve used, they, they weren t using their normal gold, it was much more orangey like the old liberal days. interesting. and they do actually in the manifesto talk about their history as the liberal party and then the liberal democrats. so there s a little bit of continuity there. but vicky, i mean, as manifesto launches go, it was a pretty classic, quite retro thing, wasn t it? bunch of activists holding up placards, ed davey walk
Altering a manifesto that was only four days old. What does it tell us about theresa may . We can hearfrom one of the daily mails senior columnist. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister stands accused of performing a hasty u turn on her plans to reform social care in england. Just four days after publishing the conservative manifesto and following widespread controversy, theresa may claimed she was now clarifying the policy. The Prime Minister said she would consider imposing a limit on the cost of home care for the elderly. Mrs mays opponents said the about turn was the very opposite of strong and stable leadership. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Serenely rolling along, it had seemed, with only a few noises off. But an antihunting protest was the last of the tories problems today. The manifesto created a mess over social care that had to be cleared up. The original version of the tory plans were to be bundled away. It might not sound like it, but thi