vaping and smoking, but the office for budget responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. here s our business correspondent, emma simpson. did you catch any ofjeremy s budget? it was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the conservative party. but was it enough? i think it s good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. but then if you think about the cost of living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, we re in a position where we re living off savings. i think they re trying to do it in light of a general election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit - to the country is. the centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to national insurance, a tax paid by workers. so who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax
hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest today was told that he has a reading age ofjust eight. his dyslexia was so bad he had to return to school to study in his 20s for the exams that he simply couldn t pass when he was there the first time. he is now dr peter kyle, a close ally of keir starmer s and the shadow northern ireland secretary, who, if labour comes to power, may find himself having to take a very important decision whether there should be another referendum about the future of the uk. this time it would be about whether northern ireland should leave and become reunited with the republic. peter kyle, welcome to political thinking. thanks, nick. i say that in the introduction that you have a reading age of eight. really? and if so, how on earth do you do the job you ve got now? well, i ve never known any difference, so i can t describ
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surrogate pregnancies. and now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking a conversation with, rather than an interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. do you remember when a politician promised to borrow tens of billions of pounds to rescue the country without spelling out where they would get the money was accused of being irresponsible, of being reckless? of finding a magic money tree? that man wasjeremy corbyn and he s my guest this week. he was of course leader of the labour party. these days he is not even a labour mp, after keir starmer expelled him from the parliamentary party. but what will be clear at next week s labour conference is he remains the leader of the left. jeremy corbyn, welcome to political thinking. thanks for inviting me on. did you have even a hint of a smile when you heard a tory chancellor stand up and say it s perfectly responsible to borrow tens of billions