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schaffer. jo cox headliners. but before tomorrow's news, here's tonight's headlines with sophia wenzler. >> good evening. these are your headunes >> good evening. these are your headlines from the gb news room at 11:00. rachel reeves has raised taxes by £40 billion, increasing the burden to its highest level since 1993. first, a 6.7% increase to the minimum wage, bringing it to £12.21 and a rise in national insurance for employers to 15%. vat will be introduced on private school fees in 2025, while non—dom tax status is set to be abolished . status is set to be abolished. capital gains tax will rise with the lower rate moving from 10% to 18%, and inheritance tax thresholds will be frozen until 2030. a £23 thresholds will be frozen until 2030. a £2.3 billion boost goes to schools with tripled funding

for breakfast clubs and an additional 2.9 billion will also be directed to the ministry of defence. but the shadow chancellor , jeremy hunt, says chancellor, jeremy hunt, says it's broken the public's trust and ordinary families will be hit the hardest. >> rachel reeves promised us 30 times that she wasn't going to increase tax. she said no ifs, no buts, no additional taxes to the ones in the labour manifesto . the ones in the labour manifesto. what she's done today has given us the biggest tax raising budget in british history, and the people are going to feel the pain. are ordinary families. >> in spain, a 71 year old british man has been killed in flash floods as the death toll rises to 95, according to authorities. it comes as rescuers continue to search for those missing after the worst natural disaster to hit spain in 50 years. videos shared on social media show torrential rain sweeping through the towns, dragging cars, downing bridges and people trapped in

floodwater, some hanging onto trees. the spanish prime minister told a press conference the devastating event may not be oven the devastating event may not be over, with more than 1000 soldiers deployed to affected areas . the first soldiers deployed to affected areas. the first uk case of a potentially deadly strain of the mpox virus has been detected in london. the uk health security agency says the risk to the uk population remains low. the person involved had been on houdayin person involved had been on holiday in africa and travelled back to london on an overnight flight on october 21st. and just days before the us election , days before the us election, footage has surfaced of president biden appearing to call trump supporters garbage . call trump supporters garbage. >> and just the other day, a speaker at his rally called puerto rico a floating island of garbage. well, let me tell you something. the only garbage i see floating out there is your supporters. >> the white house insists he was targeting hateful rhetoric used against puerto ricans at a

recent trump event, but republicans and trump's campaign have condemned the comments. meanwhile, donald trump has just been pictured boarding his own garbage truck with his make america great slogan on the side. trump has accused the democrats of running a campaign of hate . those are the latest gb of hate. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's time for headliners. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gb news the qr code, or go to gb news .com. forward slash alerts . .com. forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at thursday's top stories with three comedians. i'm stephen allen and with me tonight we have josh howie and lewis schaffer and just like patrick christys, we've also got a live audience, but you probably won't hear a laugh out of them, so maybe we shouldn't mention it. all doing well guys, before we

crack on, we don't have a live audience. that was the joke. >> come on, lewis, first he's making a joke on the counter. then now you're making a joke. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> strange that you're the one who's always gone on. it's a comedy show now. >> it's about the budget and things get real. >> look who's not a sense of humour anymore. you just want to get straight into it and talk about that budget, don't you? lewis, that capital gains tax because you're wealthy, you own property. >> lewis schaffer is the funny one on the show. oh free speech. >> you can say whatever you want, even if it's not true. first things first. hot off the press. let's crank through the front pages. we can start with the daily telegraph . goes with the daily telegraph. goes with nightmare on downing street. see if you can spot a theme here. the sun. at least she kept it down at the pump. kittens. good pun.the down at the pump. kittens. good pun. the eye reeves. great £40 billion tax gamble. the guardian goes with return of tax and spend.the goes with return of tax and spend. the daily express halloween horror show and the daily star. different story. ghosts are dying out. ooh! the guardian goes with. okay , let's guardian goes with. okay, let's get into the closer look here.

the guardian will go to josh and find out what's all over their front cover. yeah. return of tax and spend. >> and this is a picture of rachel louise. >> and she's a chancellor and a woman. yeah. yep. and, yeah, they're talking about 40 billion in tax increases. so the guardian has sort of their spin on it because every paper is pretty much doing the same story. their spin on it is that pubuc story. their spin on it is that public services are going to get an injection of cash. schools and the nhs and also like employees will get some more money. so they're saying, look, this is good. yeah. let's have a look at what the other papers think that's positive. i did think that's positive. i did think the headline on the guardian literally could be a headune guardian literally could be a headline from other newspapers for the guardian . return of tax for the guardian. return of tax and spend as a compliment. yes. they're happy. yeah. the same words on the front page of the express would be, return of tax and spend. yeah. so it's all. i mean, everyone's going to do whatever they want with the budget. everyone's going to say what they want to say about the

budget to fit whatever their ideological need is. yeah, it's fun, isn't it ? ideological need is. yeah, it's fun, isn't it? but. and we're not really going to see there are some things that make sense and some things that seem harsh. we can see some things straight away. louis, i'll ask this one to you. so it's a budget that's all about growth. obr lowers its growth expectations already. that's bad news, isn't it? >> well, i mean, the whole thing is anti—american, okay? it's just the idea of spending, of spending money. and it's like i spending money. and it's like i spend $70 billion a year more money. it's like that old joke, you know, $1 billion here, $1 billion thereafter. while you're talking about real money, i think it's the end of britain. really. there's no money. the money was spent over this covid thing. the money's been spent with all the millions of thousands and millions of people coming into the country legally and illegally. >> so i don't know where it does feel a bit painful when they're kind of going, oh, we're raising all this money, and it's just paying all this money, and it's just paying off this extra debt that some people say exists. and some people say the thing. >> the thing. can i just say

what the thing about the about the, the labour is , is that and the, the labour is, is that and i was down at labour politics at the southwark, which is my borough is they have this belief that the tories were not giving them money and they so they've been promised money. labour believes there's money out there for them to have and then they get elected and they realise there's no money for them to have and to give out to their people. >> so they arguably they have given out money. >> the money was, but right. there was more money that wasn't being given out that could have been given out, but it wasn't given out. and now they're thinking, well, we're going to have to raise taxes in order to get, get, get our money. yeah. >> well, that's that's the guardian vibe of it. >> well, that's that's the guardian vibe of it . and they've guardian vibe of it. and they've got a sort of defiant looking chancellor. she's just like she's got, she's just very like, here's my here it is. it's the first budget done by a woman. it's a woman. includes lots of spending. sexy woman. probably on i'd say she's a sexy woman. the. let's have a look . yeah

the. let's have a look. yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah. just maybe it's a red box. >> that's. you know what? no one cares about that. josh. oh, really? >> that's all you do backstage is just >> that's