it's wednesday night and this is for your spring budget special one from doncaster . please one from doncaster. please welcome your host, nigel sara. yesterday evening his father was an officer on this train. but today we're going to look for them from the crowd. the coroner obviously new ideas about getting on to them. and we'll finish off with a former player manager of doncaster rovers all aboutin manager of doncaster rovers all about in just a moment. but first, let's get the news with polly middlehurst .

first, let's get the news with polly middlehurst. nigel thank you and good evening to you. well it's been budget day today and jeremy hunt has vowed to encourage millions of people to rejoin the workforce and boost to britain's financial growth in his first budget as chancellor mr. hunt said the office for budget responsibility now forecasts the uk will no longer enter a recession this year. instead, inflation is predicted to fall from 10.7% at the end of last to 2.9% by the end of 2023. let's take you through the key points. well measures include a reduction in duty paid on draught beer and cider, bought in pubs . a further 12 month in pubs. a further 12 month freeze on fuel duty . also freeze on fuel duty. also abolishing the lifetime allowance on tax free pension savings, which was at £1 million, pounds and also coming up in the list that the budget

the chancellor put forward today . he suggested extending the current energy price guarantee . current energy price guarantee. and that, he says, will be for a further three months bringing prepay payment metre charges in line with those who pay by direct debit. well, also on the chancellor's list today, he announced an increase the defence budget saying that would be worth £11 billion and that's over the next five years. and he also detailed the freeing of the way for more women to return to work with eligible households being offered 30 hours of free childcare per week for every childcare per week for every child over the age of nine months. we have never seen before such a comprehensive attempt to say that in this country, if people want to work, we should take away the barriers . and that doesn't matter if you're an older person, someone who's disabled , old, someone who who's disabled, old, someone who is looking for work , a parent is looking for work, a parent worried about childcare costs. the government is on your side.

if you to work. we want to help you hunt . and in you with jeremy hunt. and in response, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, called the budget a sticking plaster . keir starmer, called the budget a sticking plaster. his opening post was that things aren't quite as bad now as they were in october last year of the kamikaze budget and the more that he pretends everything is fine, the more he shows just how out of touch they are . after 30 out of touch they are. after 30 years of fiscal front, our economy needed , major surgery. economy needed, major surgery. but like millions across our country , this budget leaves us country, this budget leaves us stuck in the waiting room with only a sticking plaster to hand . well, in other news today, in reaction to events in the united states, the london stock exchange suffered its worst losses since the start of the covid pandemic as fears of a banking crisis intensified. the footsie 100 closed down today. more than 292 points as global banking stocks fail just days

after the collapse of the silicon valley bank in the united states . credit suisse was united states. credit suisse was one of the worst affected lenders, saying its share price dropped by a quarter to a new record low. and it comes a day after the bank told investors it had failed . identify any risks had failed. identify any risks in its financial reporting . in its financial reporting. that's your latest news headlines. we're back in an hour with more. let's get back to nigel farage in doncaster. pretty yes. you hear about the staff with a live audience . it's staff with a live audience. it's been jeremy hunt. spring budget today. we don't care what people in westminster think. we want to come out and make real people in the country to get their reaction. now that was our chancellor. he was so breezy. he was so jolly. he was so optimistic . was so jolly. he was so optimistic. but he was so jolly. he was so optimistic . but he wasn't quite optimistic. but he wasn't quite as booster ish as boris , but for

as booster ish as boris, but for all the world. you wouldn't have thought. this is one of the biggest straight days we've had in the last 40 years. you wouldn't have thought the london stock was plummeting at stock market was plummeting at the worst. it has since the beginning of pandemic. the big disappointment with the budget i think, is that every single detail of it had been launched and leaked already. so we kind of knew what the content was going to be. he delivered it, but there was one thing i hadn't expected a brexit pub. gary tea. well, how about that .7 now, well, how about that? now, i mean, if ever there was something to cheer up, nigel farage, surely it was that . farage, surely it was that. well, the price of a pint, maybe. maybe a little bit cheaperin maybe. maybe a little bit cheaper in the pub. well, they didn't tell you from the 1st of august. there are huge increases on bottles of wine, on spirits at home and all the rest of it. what do i overall. i don't think there was an ounce of radicalism

in jeremy hunt's body . i think in jeremy hunt's body. i think the truth it is that the tax burden will continue to go up. we are now as individuals, particularly those that are working more tax than we've been at any time since clement attlee was there in number 10. and we're going back 70 years. the one or two things that might work, you know, the childcare reforms, if that gets more women back to work, that is a very good thing. but i thought hunt's demeanour against the reality of where we are made a very , very where we are made a very, very big contrast. but here we are in doncaster and we're in a place where there are three parliamentary constituencies and one of them, one of them went conservative in 2019. and nick fletcher is the first conservative member of parliament, emma doncaster area for 55 years. he represents the don valley and if you believe the pollsters he's going to get wiped out at the next general election. they're all going to get wiped out. how did they

general election? i do say if you believe the pollsters , but you believe the pollsters, but what is for certain is that for nick's future in politics and for the conservative party , the for the conservative party, the economy will be at the heart and centre of how we vote in the next general election, which will come up at some point in the last half of next year. nick, thank you very much indeed for joining me here on gb news. forjoining me here on gb news. i understand this building, this club means rather a lot to you. yes, that's right, nigel. and thank you very much for having me. i met my wife here some 33 years ago . i hope i've got that years ago. i hope i've got that date right . and i actually the date right. and i actually the night of my wedding, we had in this actual room and my father were two of both my brothers were two of both my brothers were to ask if i was witches. and the place that we are now. and the place that we are now. and my mother in law was here too. so, yeah, lots of fond memories. this place . good. memories. this place. good. well, that's the easy bit . yeah well, that's the easy bit. yeah

nick, you know, your constituents , whether they're constituents, whether they're working , retired , you know, working, retired, you know, running a small business, how do they look at this budget today? i mean, it's all well and good saying that if you're in the top 1% of earners, you can put more money into your pension scheme . money into your pension scheme. and yes, a relief that the and yes, it's a relief that the fuel duty escalator has not kicked in and it's not going to cost any more to fill the car up. but if you want to drink a glass of wine at home from the 1st of august, if you want to buy a packet of, i mean, actually actually your income allowance has been totally frozen , dragging a lot of people frozen, dragging a lot of people like nurses into 40 ppi rates of tax. i mean, let's face it, however, sunny and optimistic jeremy may have been , it's jeremy may have been, it's pretty tough for your constituents still , it. i mean, constituents still, it. i mean, first thing you could do now is stop smoke. i mean, that would save you an awful lot of money. i thought the conservative party believed in freedom of choice . believed in freedom of choice. you sound like a big state socialist to . be well, there's a

socialist to. be well, there's a certain amount of personal responsibility that as well as. and then all for that. so i mean the doctors tax, as we've called it, would pension. look if you're not people are not getting the hit replace if not getting the hit replace if not getting the hit replace if not getting the surgery they need and they're not getting it because it's not worthwhile gp i mean and surgeons going to work because they're taxed. absolutely unbelievably high then this is actually a way for somebody who is on an operating table not really going to care that going to i get your point if you're in the top 1% of earners, then today's quite good news, at least on that regard. what about everybody else? well, as think he's been very, as i say, think he's been very, very everybody who very well for everybody else who is the operation be is waiting for the operation be done, because obviously those waiting if waiting lists will drop. now, if it works , it will have it works, it will work. have heard that i speak to consultants and it's definitely an issue. so yeah , i mean, an issue. so yeah, i mean, obviously i don't want to talk about the 1, but that's how about the top 1, but that's how it will the people of it will affect the people of doncaster that they will be able to operations . so that's

to get operations. so that's good and appointments good news. and gp appointments when get those as well. when they get those as well. well yeah. mean well hopefully, yeah. i mean it's , i mean there's an awful it's, i mean there's an awful lot of work going off with the gp moment , lot of work going off with the gp moment, with the gp gp at this moment, with the gp practises i an awful practises and i spent an awful lot of time at the office in my email is full of email inbox is full of complaints about gp by actually going out and seeing these gp days and i'm sitting down with them saying look how can we make this better? i mean one of the easiest things that gp's can do is make it easier for people can actually get in contact with them. people to talk them. people just want to talk and be sat on the line for and don't be sat on the line for half an hour. wow. okay if half an hour. wow. okay but if i'm doing that, but if i'm i'm not doing that, but if i'm business. yeah. so i'm a medium sized employing sized business. i'm employing men i'm a men and women. i'm making a reasonable profit. i've just seen my tax bill go up by 30, a 30% increase in business taxation . i mean, this is anti taxation. i mean, this is anti business. it's anti investment . business. it's anti investment. it's almost hard to believe that a policy that calls itself conservative is doing this. yeah, it is. it is. and i understand that it was difficult . all right. yeah, we've just

had a £407 billion spent on trying to keep all these businesses up and running and businesses up and running and businesses are only here because of the government to help during covid. all of the government to help during covm. all jobs of the government to help during covid. all jobs of the furlough, the self—employed , the income the self—employed, the income support scheme and all the plasterers, electricians and the builders were started down tools and go home. they all got grants to help them through that. so, i mean, we can't forget granted, it's tough . i mean, the it's tough. i mean, the corporation tax has gone up 25, but believe that's tapered 19. but i believe that's tapered 19. so lots of the one man bands out there were earning less £50,000 a year. they'll still only pay 90% corporation tax it does go up to 200 up to 20 or 50,000. so it is tapered along the way. and also we've put the tax relief in so that when people do buy items for the business that was there already and out of the even bigger level, no, i don't believe it out of the super tells of at least ultimately i get your point. yeah you decided to lock us down. was your government policy swedes government policy the swedes a different approach? people in.

florida took a different approach. we have a know, we approach. we have a you know, we are for lockdown. it was are paying for lockdown. it was one most catastrophic one of the most catastrophic mistakes seen in mistakes think ever seen in their country . mistakes think ever seen in their country. i mean, mistakes think ever seen in their country . i mean, boys mistakes think ever seen in their country. i mean, boys , we their country. i mean, boys, we have so much society. i want to thank matt hancock for what a lovely man you're facing the electorate . it's going to be 58 electorate. it's going to be 58 months time . can you win the months time. can you win the seat again? i've done valley. yeah, i believe so. adult since i've had a member of parliament who stood up for doncaster like a lot of men, the statistics prove it from the amount of times i spoke about doncaster . i times i spoke about doncaster. i don't think that other member of parliament was fought hard for doncaster . we've now got doncaster. we've now got a lovely bid coming forward which was announced today. so that's some of the 20 million for doncaster. we got 18.6 million, the first round of levelling up for doncaster and now we're going to hopefully get £18 million investment zone, which bnng million investment zone, which bring the advanced manufacturing research which is just down the

road in sheffield, could bring that to dunn valley , get that to that to dunn valley, get that to dunn valley. we could then end up with baldwin in doncaster . up with baldwin in doncaster. right. i'll tell you what, right. well, i'll tell you what, if do, you'll be in better if you do, you'll be in better shape than i think you currently are but either way, thank are now. but either way, thank you joining us here gb you forjoining us here on gb views. thank very much views. thank you very much indeed. let's get some views indeed. now let's get some views . get thoughts from . let's get some thoughts from some professional economists . some professional economists. i'm being joined in just a moment by roger wald . and he's moment by roger wald. and he's a guy that in the past has worked, an advisor to the bank of england and, advisor to the uk. treasury. but i think significantly and importantly, he's been a consumer champion for many, many is. roger, thank you for joining for many, many is. roger, thank you forjoining us for many, many is. roger, thank you for joining us today. for many, many is. roger, thank you forjoining us today. big you for joining us today. big picture . you know, i made the picture. you know, i made the point earlier on that hunt was so jolly mean. you think we're living through an economic boom. he was so happy, actually . what he was so happy, actually. what are you saying on the big picture? this budget does for our economy? looking ahead , not our economy? looking ahead, not a lot . think it was pretty

a lot. think it was pretty disappointing . the realism is disappointing. the realism is we've got a banking crisis going . sorry i lost my voice a bit on and more banks fail. and of course also forgot to mention that today is the biggest industrial strike since the strikes started , it was like strikes started, it was like going through the first world war trenches for me to get here from london today . it's from london today. it's unbelievable . it's just unbelievable. it's just unrealistic the unbelievable. it'sjust unrealistic the government's policy . all politicians policy policy. all politicians policy seems to be for energy and the rest of our cost of living and other problems to have gas, lighting . that's what we're lighting. that's what we're being we're being gassed, that we're being told stories , we're being told stories, terrible things are going on. i have a real concern for the lack of leadership in the world. i

can't think of any inspiring leader except perhaps zelenskyy , and we'll probably be told sooner or later if he's torturing russian brown bears , torturing russian brown bears, his back garden or something to promote let's hope that's how it now but it's also dismal i think corporation tax is the biggest is the biggest disappointment now everybody's speaking about corporation tax and how it affects businesses and corporations . but affects businesses and corporations. but i'm affects businesses and corporations . but i'm sorry, corporations. but i'm sorry, i've been here a long time. i know how to behave, but i'm just going to be very these people are so stupid that they can't see beyond their noses who's going to pay that corporation tax. you've just talked about a 30% slam. yeah now i run a cake shop, i sell cakes for £1.50. they cost me £1 to make you come along and take 30% of my margin.

so now i'm making ten pe what the world to these folks and nobody discussing this who's going to pay that we are these people . yeah all of these people people. yeah all of these people here tonight . yeah. so i'm mum. here tonight. yeah. so i'm mum. yeah for mugs rishi rich gave us a five pe tax cut . let me talk a five pe tax cut. let me talk about petrol for a moment . when about petrol for a moment. when petrol was 180, 56% of that was government tax . it's a triple government tax. it's a triple tax. now think about it. this is not widely known. i'm told there's fuel duty , there's vat there's fuel duty, there's vat and the vat is on the fuel duty and the vat is on the fuel duty and on the petrol. so it's tax on, tax and do you pay for your petrol with pounds in your pocket that you've already paid pay- pocket that you've already paid pay. why. it's a it's a they couldn't give us more than five p it didn't even touch the other

european countries actually gave a lot more in germany. what was a lot more in germany. what was a 37, i got to say 25. he wasn't uncommon . it didn't even touch uncommon. it didn't even touch the sides. there was no enforcement. we ran a poll on social media, 80% of people could not find a neighbourhood petrol station that they used that had reduced the prices by five p. it's absolute be insane. so he gives us these these these little sops by one and it tells us smug jezza with this incredible, wide eyed, happy look . he's incredible, wide eyed, happy look. he's telling me everything's all right. forget the banks failing and financial crisis coming . you know, forget crisis coming. you know, forget the war in ukraine. forget the fact that nobody can get anywhere today. i'm waiting for him to give me a pony. christmas but he's telling us everything is wonderful . and this is wonderful. and this corporation , we are going to corporation, we are going to have it for dinner. corporation, we are going to have it for dinner . we are the have it for dinner. we are the ones at cost of living crisis that keeps us breathing is going to crush us even more . don't

to crush us even more. don't these geniuses even think about that? well, what he does say the final thought, if i could, with you, roger, final thought. he says that inflation have says that inflation will have fallen to 2.9% by the end of the yeah fallen to 2.9% by the end of the year. so everything's going to be . 3.2. 2.9. okay. this is be okay. 3.2. 2.9. okay. this is another of my favourite subjects we have in this country what's called cost plus push inflation. as you know , cost push as you know, cost push inflation. there's demand to pull inflation. that's where you, madam, go out and too many handbags you go to the restaurant with your family three times a week and it's got to stop, raise interest rates, make money more expensive people will stop spending to ensure . in will stop spending to ensure. in short, is he right to think inflation will fall? that yeah. but it's got nothing to do with him, right? okay. this has cost push inflation, which always by itself in 2000, give me talk where of time. okay marks out of ten for the chancellor today . ten for the chancellor today. two two we have what? we've got to take a break. i'll be back

with you in a minute. the liam halligan you give us his views. were they going to get the audience engaged with anybody want .

before we get back to the budget? was one story i must touch very quickly. it's my what the farage moment . the day i the farage moment. the day i have scampton in lincolnshire not too terribly far from here. it was world war ii, home to 617 squadron. what does that mean ? squadron. what does that mean? it means guy gibson. it means the dambusters raid that took off from that very raaf went above the dams , came back having above the dams, came back having lost about a third of their aircraft and made it is a place of huge historical and cultural significance. it closed down last year as an raf base. it

will now be holding centre for young men. the cross the english channelin young men. the cross the english channel in small boats but even told that guy gibson guy gibson v vicki's office is being cleared out make room for all of us it is absolute cultural desecration. it shows the mess we're in as a country far from it becoming a refugee centre, it should be a museum where we honour these incredible people who did what they did . okay who did what they did. okay okay. now joining me is liam halligan our economics and business editor, liam , your take business editor, liam, your take on the budget, please. well, it's great to be here in doncaster in yorkshire. i thought the budget was a bit a damp squib or even a squib . it damp squib or even a squib. it was that damp i didn't see much here at for all ordinary working people apart from the help with child care, which looked interesting. i do think that was well intentioned. it was also designed wind liz truss up

because it's what she's been trying to do when was in government for many many years but it seems as if most of the money the extra fiscal headroom that the chancellor because growth has turned out to be not as bad as everyone because the economy has turned out to be more resilient than everyone expected. certainly the ever gloomy office for budget responsive bility the chances seems to have used that fiscal headroom to give a massive tax bang to very very wealthy families who are saving for their pensions. he's increased their pensions. he's increased the tax free allowance of money you can put in your pension in a single year from 40 to £60000. and he scrapped the lifetime allowance altogether. it was going to go up to 1.8 million and now it's limitless . these and now it's limitless. these these are mind blowing sums for these are mind blowing sums for the vast majority of ordinary working people here in the uk. and the idea that you spend the money that you've got in the middle of a cost of living crisis by making life lot more

comfortable for frankly , upper comfortable for frankly, upper middle classes seems to me politically inept . you didn't politically inept. you didn't put petrol up going be a few pence off a pint of beer, but a lot more for a bottle of wine or a bottle of gin or whatever it may be. i mean, we cast our minds forward to the next election. these folk in this room are actually going to be paying room are actually going to be paying even bigger burden paying an even bigger tax burden than are now, because than they are now, because allowing he's allowing for inflation, he's frozen, all the frozen, hasn't he? all the allowances people doing allowances and people doing ordinary are being dragged ordinary jobs are being dragged into false heap tax band, into the false heap tax band, which to be for the top earners in this is what we call fiscal drag. it's not a particularly difficult economic concept, but it's not understood at least the treasury hopes it not is widely understood. if you keep the tax free allowance at 12 and a half grand for years on end, if you keep the rate at which ordinary working people stop tax at 20 pe and start paying tax at 40 pe, that's just above 50 grand a yeah that's just above 50 grand a year. it's going stay there till 2028. nigel that means more and more people . an increase from

more people. an increase from 4 million people to 8 million people getting on for a quarter of the workforce. yeah, we'll be paying of the workforce. yeah, we'll be paying top rate of tax. i'm talking about middle managers. i'm talking about particularly senior teachers, policemen and women, people working in the pubuc women, people working in the public sector and not you . public sector and not you. hugely high powered jobs. public sector and not you. hugely high powered jobs . these hugely high powered jobs. these people are not meant to paying tax at 40, and yet they are and as you just heard from roger, there, explain brilliantly. and then the money you have in your pocket to spend that is already been taxed and then you're paying been taxed and then you're paying vat on those things and then duty of that, we're then duty on top of that, we're going to a much that's the going to have a much that's the tax burdens at 70 high tax burdens at a 70 year high where of this in where they're more of this in a minute. but before we go to the break, big local economic here with regards apple , what's with regards the apple, what's going in reports going on? well, in my reports for gb news i try and get out of london as much as i can. i know i've got a london accent. it's not my fault . and so i thought not my fault. and so i thought i'll take this opportunity of coming see you tonight to coming up to see you tonight to spend tomorrow in doncaster . and

spend tomorrow in doncaster. and we're going to be looking at this issue. i know it means a lot to a lot of people in this room of doncaster, sheffield airport. i've spent a lot of time in recent years up in the north—east tyneside teesside. i've seen what teesside championed by tory mayor up there and how much it has done to that part of the world. look, we are in the heart of england yorkshire, is the heart of england and in many ways doncaster is the beating heart of yorkshire. crazy that we of yorkshire. it's crazy that we haven't got a regional agreement that would bring in more investment to bring in lots of land supplies to this part of the country. i think, liam, you're absolutely right and you couldn't appraise audience couldn't appraise this audience more, just go more, could you really just go back a with q&a with this back in a with a q&a with this live audience

?so ? so we are going to do some q&a. i've got liam halligan with me. we've got a few people have volunteered desperate to ask questions. we're going to begin with tony harrison . if we can with tony harrison. if we can get the microphone to tony. thank you. well, the increase in corporation from 19% to 26% stifle investment . the uk going stifle investment. the uk going forward quickly before liam the expert comes in you know what if i could in dublin i'd pay 12 and a half % they speak english good a half% they speak english good education system good workforce . i think i'm going to dublin. sorry, liam shy. i think this a huge mistake by the chancellor . huge mistake by the chancellor. it's not just the big business thans it's not just the big business titans that pay corporation tax. if you run a small plumbing company, if you run a small chain restaurants in the regions, you're paying corporation tax the type of between 50,000 and a quarter of a million is very steep. you start paying 25% corporation tax. this is the first rise in corporation tax, nigel since the

days of dennis healy with his funny eyebrows, silly . is this funny eyebrows, silly. is this really the right when we're trying to get the economy out of the hole? it's in rescuing our economy . we kept alive with economy. we kept alive with billions of pounds of taxpayers money, and now we're killing them off with a badly time rising corporation tax. quick thought from you, tony. absolutely, i agreed. ireland 12. we're going to business to ireland and we already have astrazeneca ca absolutely massive investment , astrazeneca ca absolutely massive investment, hundreds of billions of pounds. treasury was expecting that it's going to the republic. tony, thank you. let's go to roi next. we've got a question for us. there was no mention today in the budget about foreign aid. now would you aboush about foreign aid. now would you abolish it ? would you increase abolish it? would you increase it ? would you leave it as it is it? would you leave it as it is 7 it? would you leave it as it is ? my view is that it should be abolished and the point i'm not saying we shouldn't tell these

countries , but the other way to countries, but the other way to do will be to support the charities that go out there, the then would be got to the people on the ground and wouldn't be hived off by these governments . hived off by these governments. right . it's really interesting . right. it's really interesting. here's an issue where everybody in westminster thinks foreign aid is marvellous. in fact, david cameron said one of his biggest achievements as prime minister was increased . the minister was increased. the amount of foreign aid you get out into the country, people feel differently. i think disaster relief is one thing. yeah and charities can do that. but equally government can help. i think those people , i think those poor people, turkey, been turkey, what they've been through if we could give the money quickly you'll get money very quickly you'll get something to them very quickly. we but giving we should do that. but giving annual to corrupt annual checks to corrupt governments . someone once said governments. someone once said that foreign was poor people living in rich countries giving . money to rich people living in poor countries. and i've always worried about that. so i wouldn't abolish it completely i

wouldn't abolish it completely i wouldn't abolish it completely. i would keep it flexible. but the way been doing it, the sheer sums we've been giving and frankly , you know, giving money frankly, you know, giving money to countries that their own nuclear programs , giving money nuclear programs, giving money to countries that might even pose a to us, giving pose a threat to us, giving money china . mean, money to china. i mean, the whole thing's crackers. roy thank you. let's keep going . thank you. let's keep going. nicholas a businessman nicholas evans is a businessman . nicholas yeah, and i. fintech. one second . thank you. as one second. thank you. as a fintech business and i've only been starting up two years just into a profit and got no concept of high concerns about the corporate tax, but also the cut on the grants available to me as well . now all on the grants available to me as well. now all of a sudden that's totally disappeared for me . totally disappeared for me. yeah. let's also remember nicholas, the self—employed, those running their own businesses . if you're running a businesses. if you're running a limited company, it isn't just the increase in corporate tax.

there's quite significant increase. also in dividend tax because people pay themselves in dividends from , limited dividends from, limited companies. that's going up as well. i mean, the 1st of april really for small business, it's a medium business. it's a real triple whammy that's going on out. well, small, medium sized enterprises. nigel they account for half of all the growth in this country, two thirds of the employment in this and they're hotbed of innovation and thus future and productivity gains a lot of companies were born in lockdown with people using the adversity of lockdown getting their creative going and trying to launch a business often family of family owned businesses . that's why this businesses. that's why this rising corporation tax is so badly time. there's also so many people working in your sectors in the so—called gig economy , in the so—called gig economy, tech economy. they've got these ghastly accounting rules. i are 35, which it is faster for freelancers believe whatever you

say about kwasi kwarteng liz truss they recognised that and they were trying to overturn these all 35 regulations. no hint that today at all very for small businesses in this budget and for a tory chancellor to not under stand that small businesses are the bedrock of their support , that's just their support, that's just unforgivable . how out of touch unforgivable. how out of touch do you think the conservatives are with start up businesses like yours who had a touch on the way out? you did very well to keep it alive? i very pleased about that. thank you . let's see about that. thank you. let's see about that. thank you. let's see a few hands up. who'd like to ask the question? i'll raise a comment. who's got something to say this issue earlier? say on this issue earlier? there's a gentleman just there in the front row . a microphone in the front row. a microphone can up. please give us your can be up. please give us your name, please. sir i've just heard one. yeah, i've heard a lot recently about lot of talk recently about a conservative budget . now not conservative budget. now i'm not small inclined economically liberal. maybe yourself or many of people in the room. i'm all i economically left, but i'm identified as a conservative

chief. now this budget, while i disagree with it , chief. now this budget, while i disagree with it, isn't chief. now this budget, while i disagree with it , isn't the disagree with it, isn't the best. but what is your definition of a conservative government ? what would you do or government? what would you do or should we agree to generally? what do you make the conservative government body? sorry, my traditional thinking was that the conservative party was that the conservative party was pro—business , maybe socially was pro—business, maybe socially . it wasn't always looking after people as the labour party was , people as the labour party was, but it was pro—business and thatcher argument was business men and women make money, make wealth, employ people pay taxes, and then we can afford to have hospitals, then we can afford to have all those things that make life nice. and i genuinely think that these people on the front benches of both the conservative and the labour party is are so far away from gentlemen like nicholas here they don't understand . what commercial understand. what commercial business is, is all very well and good going to oxford and getting your degree working in the research office . how many of

the research office. how many of these people have actually been out taking risk created , wealth out taking risk created, wealth employed people and lost money and seen the bad times as well? and i would have thought the conservative government should try to be small state, low , try to be small state, low, pro—business, are none those things. and frankly , i don't things. and frankly, i don't think you can put an increasingly heavily taxed cigarette paper now between the conservative, the labour party's lib . a couple of weekends ago, lib. a couple of weekends ago, nigel, i did what you do so well. i had lunch and i had lunch with somebody called nigel lawson who was of course a tory chancellor between 1983 and 1989, somebody who cut corporation tax from 52, somebody who cut the top rate of income tax from 60 to 40. nigel lawson told me and he's very old in his own words, very frail. now he's 91. he's just had his birthday probably in his last interview, he told me that he thinks today's conservative

party are going to have to completely reinvent themselves and they're not going to that with current leadership with the current leadership ship. there's no way. i think , ship. there's no way. i think, that rishi sunak and jeremy hunt have it in them to push back against this treasury orthodoxy to get us out this high tax, low growth, low productivity doom. look, the tax burden is now the highest it's been since the days of clement attlee , and that's of clement attlee, and that's not the right place to be in my view for a modern economy type a. one more quick question. anybody else desperate, madam, in front row, the in the front row, the one moment, one moment. i know you want to in there, but hang want to get in there, but hang on a sec. um, hello my name is jackie. i just want to go back to the mp earlier when he sat there said because of the there and he said because of the pension , you know. yeah, being pension, you know. yeah, being able to put that people can now have the hip replacement , you have the hip replacement, you can't have a hip replacement unless you've got a nurse, a junior doctor cleaning staff bookings staff, you know, all these other people take, you know, the surgeon can the

operation. but all those are the people so all the people need man. you know, of course it's a team, isn't it? i mean, he was trying to put an spin on the budget, i think, which if you're a conservative of a conservative member of parliament representing doncaster is quite doncaster these days is quite tough. well, i'm an ex nurse and i paid into an nhs pension and i'm paying tax. i paid into an nhs pension and i'm paying tax . i would i'm still paying tax. i would have the threshold to come have liked the threshold to come down a little bit. now whether the saving that for next term. oh well next budget the next oh well the next budget the next budget that be before budget that will be before a general election . and guess general election. and guess what? they'll cut it's what? they'll cut taxes. it's like going wonderfully like is it all going wonderfully in moment , like is it all going wonderfully in moment, it's for in a moment, it's time for talking points. snowden has talking points. and snowden has been manager of donk been player manager of donk costa rovers. we're going to talk a bit about doncaster the football club and what it means to be from doncaster and to play football for the local team . football for the local team. coming up on dan wootton tonight kt in an exclusive interview,

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can do gb news dot store. i know . be rushing there in your thousands now and we've talked about money, we've talked about budgets and really quite in many ways rather depressing things. but we're to talk about you, which i hope is a bit happier. so born just down the road, i was i was born in a tribe, young children, which is probably about eight or nine miles away. and but my affinity with doncaster goes back many years. my doncaster goes back many years. my brother glen, everybody i know who watches rovers, my brother glen three years older than me , i played for the rovers than me, i played for the rovers before i did and then i joined before i did and then ijoined them from school. 16. you were? yeah. it's interesting it you you you buy your own admission that good at school. i wasn't no i wasn't the brightest but i was i wasn't the brightest but i was i wasn't the brightest but i was i was all right football pe and this was the thing you wanted to do? i did, i went to, to a careers meeting and the careers officer was up there and he said, what do you want to do? i

said, what do you want to do? i said, i want to play football. and they looked at me, went 1% play and they looked at me, went 1% play football. i said, well , my play football. i said, well, my brother plays. i think i'm better than him . and it proved better than him. and it proved to be i was better than that . so to be i was better than that. so i just looked at my brother glen and i just wanted to play football . why do younger football. why do younger brothers always think they're best? you know what? growing up , glen, and playing to age group as well. three years of massive because that's the interesting thing isn't it you actually and of course this club at the time had a manager who was pretty legendary football figure going to those years. john i absolutely adored the man. i didn't like him. i was a chelsea fan . i was growing up in the fan. i was growing up in the 1970 cup final, leeds played. we're talking folks about bremner, billy bremner, who was a little fella, defend the others in the game, was a bit rougher in those days wasn't it? it was well, rougher, to be quite honest. but i was a fan,

didn't like leeds united when he came to doncaster rovers , he came to doncaster rovers, he signed me as a schoolboy and wow, did i talk a i absolutely adored them and. you were playing for the side aged 16, 16? yeah, i'd just left school months later i, i made my debut against bournemouth and i was actually substitute. billy was player manager then and dave bentley , a player who was bentley, a player who was getting on in age , had gone down getting on in age, had gone down injured and billy just looked at me at 16 year old and went, get warmed up. we're about 18 minutes to go. and i thought kind of in my belly, i was kind of sick. i'm thinking 16. i'm going on in old 40 division game, which were very very aggressive players in it but excited as well . and i wanted to excited as well. and i wanted to get on and i actually went on for dave bentley and i played alongside billy bremner for 18 minutes. and while what feely told me, way to go, he told me

when to pass it to the medics so ridiculously for me. but you were quite, you know, quite a prodigy, weren't you? because, i mean, you were captaining the team at a very young age. i captained them at 18 to give him the captaincy. yeah, it was strange because my brother were 21, i captain him. 21, so i was captain above him. we experienced we had several experienced players well for to players as well. for billy to give me the captaincy at 18, he must have thought that i were captain material and i got something about what believed something about what he believed in. clearly, very, very much in. you clearly, very, very much gave big break and time gave you your big break and time goes on and you marry girl. i did marry the girl. a local girl. joanne she returned joe's cafe in the marketplace . so they cafe in the marketplace. so they owned that . and i used to go in owned that. and i used to go in for my free lunches and yeah, i, i had five children to her. i've got nine grandchildren and they're all living . doncaster they're all living. doncaster and you built a house in doncaster ? i did. i built doncaster? i did. i built in—house near barnby. don't know. i thought my power station went out there and i've called

it bremner lodge and called it that, because if i went to i got a nice house and i thought if it wasn't for billy bremner, i wouldn't have had a nice day. i was terrific. so you have your playing days and then, you know, dogs, the rovers go through their ups and downs and it goes, you know, in lower you know, in these lower divisions, issue divisions, money always an issue with in the end, you with clubs. but in the end, you come and player, come back and your player, manager. i i was i was manager. i was i was i was playing scarborough i've still got left . rovers got another year left. rovers had down into the had gone down into the conference . they were getting conference. they were getting crowds of 400 because crowds of 400 by then because east it goes to the old chairman . he didn't want to have a doncaster rovers team. apparently didn't want a team in doncaster . so the crowds of 400, doncaster. so the crowds of 400, the approached and my brother glenn and said would you come back as manager and assistant and we took the opportunity and at the time we didn't have anywhere to train . we didn't anywhere to train. we didn't have a ball. we didn't have any kit. we didn't have anything. doncaster rovers, nobody would sponsor the rock bottom. they

were going out and i remember the, the chairman who took over when i got the job, john ryan. i remember him carrying a coffin with loads of supporters from doncaster town centre to the ground because they didn't think that doncaster rovers were going to exist after last game. so when i came in as manager , i had when i came in as manager, i had seven players left at the club. i had two week to get a team and first game was down at dover. couldn't be any further away for the rovers fans . so we and we the rovers fans. so we and we took that day, 15th of august, never forget because it's my birthday . is never forget because it's my birthday. is it. never forget because it's my birthday. is it . well took 1500 birthday. is it. well took 1500 fans down to the wow and then we played southport on the tuesday for our first home game and i'm sat in my little office. i picked the team coach right kick off office corpus seven i get so knock on my door and it's a sergeant police i thought it

went can i have a word i'm thinking what now. he the old chairman back at the club. what's happening and and what's happening and he went and we're going to delay the we're going have to delay the kick off. i said why he won't come with me. we went to the front doncaster rovers front door of doncaster rovers ground went. that's why . ground and he went. that's why. and were about 15 queues and there were about 15 queues of people 200 yards long. our crowd that night were four and a half thousand . did you save half thousand. did you save donkeys? the rovers rovers ? donkeys? the rovers rovers? yeah. yes i don't i don't like saying i did . yeah. yes i don't i don't like saying i did. but yeah. yes i don't i don't like saying i did . but i yeah. yes i don't i don't like saying i did. but i told you, i mean, if you hadn't done what you'd done this. no, i thought the people of doncaster like me, england as football players , england as football players, knew what we meant to doncaster rovers . and i think they give rovers. and i think they give they give support for me and glenn and doncaster are the most fantastic couple of lovely local stories . tell us about the best stories. tell us about the best straight. does anybody know about dennis mulally , the best about dennis mulally, the best show ? they used to be here. they show? they used to be here. they used to be a local paper come out every thursday . the free

out every thursday. the free press and dennis mulally airport. and he didn't know anything about football. dennis, you don't know anything about anything. dennis is a brilliant friend of mine. he has been for two year, but he put in the point the paper free press point in the paper free press anybody scores anybody, who scores for doncaster rovers . they can come doncaster rovers. they can come in and a free meal. so the in and have a free meal. so the week later i'm about 18 year old i've scored the goal won one nil so it's i'll down and see dennis so it's i'll down and see dennis so it's i'll down and see dennis so it takes may ten as well so he said to me, i said, dennis snowden doncaster rovers have scored the goal. we come in, come in. i said, this is me friend as well. you said, do you love what you want? i had never had a full steak. 18 year old. i hadn't. and i'm thinking i looked at the menu and i thought that looks the most expensive thing i said. i said i love the philly steak. you and i would want it. and now i'm thinking, how do i want a cooking? so me, they just said, well don't save sides. so i said , well, don't sides. so i said, well, don't please. so we had a philly so

that we later would claim brent for the way in london we got beat to no . so we're on the way beat to no. so we're on the way back and i soon danny so when i'm thinking it don't know who rovers players are ain't got rovers players are you ain't got a football so just a clue about football so just said today vale who used to play same age as me and i said dave i said i'm star you know you on his way back from london i we'll go into dennis's in bicester and tell him we won two nil. seriously i said, i mean you of school. i said he won't have a clue . we get so we go saying clue. we get so we go saying anyway i allowed you when you're that young lad that scored last week i said yeah i'm being dave scored we want to nil down bromley when coleman and he's pulled he's even give pulled two chairs he's even give is a swing as well i love it seriously team we took it then we went for a walk round the three other food pie so his wife carol the next day she's reading the paper and she went oh and rovers boys in you went oh yeah

that young lad snowdon mate dave i'll come in they want to nullarbor scotchman says in my pay nullarbor scotchman says in my pay period brentford to doncaster rovers will anyway when they bought me over so it's a lovely story and you've been of course your doncaster hall of fame everything you now a few seconds left on show you're acting as an ambassador across the other side of the pennines for everton who for the first time in their history are going to go down. they know the notts don't out. they're not going down. but yeah i signed for everton were a big thing either everton were a big thing either everton at liverpool i chose everton. yeah. and i'm now still employed after six year by as a club ambassador. well you know what and i can tell with your enthusiasm and your optimism that whatever you do you'll give it absolutely 100% big hand free and studies. thank you very . and studies. thank you very. thank you. very good . well, thank you. very good. well, that's it from doncaster . we are that's it from doncaster. we are finished for the evening . i finished for the evening. i think if i have to sum up the

budget in one word today it is underwhelm man. i'm from that . underwhelm man. i'm from that. let's go to the all important web . we're done. it's over. we web. we're done. it's over. we hello. good evening. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office with me annie shuttleworth thursday is going to be a much milder day than today as we've got milder air pushing up, being dragged up behind this warm front has been tracking across the country through the day, bringing many outbreaks of rain so it's been a pretty wet day across the uk and through evening we'll continue to see some quite heavy rain and snow. is that rain falls into the cold air across scotland. so there are still warnings in force this evening and into the early hours of thursday for the south will see a drier night, but we'll see a brisk subsidy breeze and that will pick temperatures up through the night. so temperatures will increase by the time we get to the early of thursday. so tomorrow will be a milder start than morning . however,

than this morning. however, across of wales northwest across parts of wales northwest england and southern scotland , england and southern scotland, there's still a rain warning in force. so there be some force. so there could be some traffic on the roads then as head through the afternoon, things will tend to become a little bit drier and temperatures again are still climbing up above average. so feeling mild than it will have done today . however, across done today. however, across parts northern ireland, parts of northern ireland, though, the skies will brighten . a of thundery . there's a risk of thundery showers through the afternoon and into thursday evening. generally overnight it'll be a dner generally overnight it'll be a drier and clearer night. but still with that mild air, that stiff southerly breeze will continue to. see temperatures above average overnight , so above average overnight, so frost free for much of the uk. some areas staying in double digits. well into the start of friday. so friday will be a bit of a mixed picture depending on where abouts you are. but most southern areas could the threat of thundery downpours as dry to start through many and eastern areas. but that risk of thundery showers does spread eastwards as we head through the afternoon

and on saturday on saturday, but still rather mild and perhaps turning a bit cooler into start of next week .

good evening . good evening. i'm good evening . i'm jacob good evening. i'm jacob rees—mogg, state of the nation . rees—mogg, state of the nation. tonight, mystic marks , mac tonight, mystic marks, mac culpa. alas, i was the chancellor has decided to go ahead with the corporation tax rise but there's lots to get through with today's budget and we'll be debating it all shortly and the shirking from home debate persists as new data suggest that a third of the pubuc suggest that a third of the public would quit their jobs if forced to work full time at office. sounds to me like they already quit their jobs some time ago. but vox populi day we asked you the people, if they would quit their jobs if forced to work at the office and here's a taste of what they had to say. working from home