we will bring you more from our correspondent outside a hospital in a moment. a leading think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has accused the main political parties of a conspiracy of silence over the economic reality behind plans set out in their election manifestos. the ifs analysed how the policies could impact the public finances and what that could mean for household incomes, public services and taxation. in its scathing assessment it said the parties were ducking the issues, by relying on faster growth to deliver more tax, which it said was far from guaranteed. it also warned the next government faced having to find new ways to raise taxes, or leave some public services exposed to billions of pounds worth of cuts. this a flavour of what the director of the ifs, pauljohnson, had to say. low growth, high debt, high interest payments mean we need to do something quite rare over the next few years just to stop debt spiralling ever upwards we need to run primar
yes, sadly, this is a statement that has come in from buckingham palace within the past hour on this incident, as they put it, yesterday evening at the home of princess anne, the princess royal. it reads: the princess royal has sustained minor injuries and concussion following an incident on the gatcombe park estate yesterday evening. her royal highness remains in southmead hospital in bristol as a precautionary measure for observation and is expected to make a full and swift recovery. the king, of course, her elder brother, has been kept closely informed and joins the whole royal family and sending his fondest love and well wishes to the princess for a speedy recovery. we understand the princess was walking on the perimeter of her gatcombe park estate yesterday evening when she came into some kind of contact with some horses on the estate. it is understood that that contact, perhaps from a horses head or legs, caused minor head injuries and concussion. she had her husband wi
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