i am not i chair is george osborne. i am not makin: a chair is george osborne.ow that it has lost, effectively lost the shape that was going to take some of the trains on to leeds and the focus is on manchester to perhaps a lesser extent on birmingham, do you think we have reached a point where this�*ll be the final shape of hs2? do you think people can confidently invest in the north west for example, knowing the high—speed link will be there by the time the investments are kind of reaching fruition? . . ., ,, fruition? the chief executive of h52 soke to fruition? the chief executive of h52 spoke to katie _ fruition? the chief executive of h52 spoke to katie austin _ fruition? the chief executive of h52 spoke to katie austin last _ fruition? the chief executive of h52 spoke to katie austin last week - fruition? the chief executive of h52j spoke to katie austin last week and he was very clear about core routes between london and manchester was primarily hs2�*s focus because of the cuts to the eastern lead, it is likely they will be delivered in a different way i

george osborne replies that he should take out the word love which he is used in regard to his aid with and says should be mentioning his family and replying to them. in response to these messages, matt hancock said there is nothing new, that they've all been over to the covid inquiry. he added it was highly intrusive and inappropriate to publish them. police in australia say they've made what's thought to be the country's biggest ever drug bust, seizing cocaine with a street value of a—billion us dollars. the joint operation with the united states has led to 12 arrests linked to a mexican cartel. our correspondent phil mercer in sydney has more. us authorities intercepting a huge consignment of cargo allegedly bound for western australia. the authorities here in australia then substituted that cargo for fake drugs and dropped it out into the indian ocean about 40 nautical miles from the city of perth, western australia. there they waited. they put their packages and surveillance by drones and helicopters. eventually, it is alleged, that drugs syndicate members on boats game searching f

then the extraordinary message between matt hancock and george osborne, the former uk chancellor.ideo of his resignation, where he has set out that he has standing down, and asked mr osborne for his opinion, what does he think, ok in tone and content? george osborne replied he should take out the word love, which matt hancock has used in relation to his aide, to come up with who he was having an affair, and cc should mention his family and apologise to them. in response to these messages matt hancock said there is nothing new, they have all been handed over to the covid inquiry. he added it was intrusive and inappropriate to publish them. —— extraordinary stuff. thank you. the headlines. a senior official in the besieged ukrainian city of bakhmut has told the bbc there's fighting on the streets as troops struggle to prevent its fall to russian forces. police in australia have revealed details of an undercover operation leading to what's believed to be the country's biggest ever drugs bust. the white house says president biden had a cancerous skin lesion successfully removed from h

even george osborne was saying this was the fair and right thing to do, i don't often quote him.gh? b, do. -- is this the right thing through?— do. -- is this the right thing throu~h? �* , ., ., , through? a further living standards b the through? a further living standards by the government _ through? a further living standards by the government would - through? a further living standards by the government would say - through? a further living standards by the government would say a - through? a further living standards by the government would say a lot | through? a further living standards l by the government would say a lot of this is to do with post—pandemic global conditions and the war in ukraine, that is what is falling thatis ukraine, that is what is falling that is fuelling inflation in particular. —— fuelling inflation. i think your viewers will be asking themselves, why is britain hit the worst, among the worst countries on this? we are most exposed on energy because we have not taken the right decisions over the last on renewables, nuclear, energy efficiency. we are t

well, the prime minister says no , but the former chancellor, george osborne , now chairman of georgesborne, now chairman of the british museum, who actually owns them on our behalf, thinks they should returned the they should be returned to the parthenon athens . vox populi. parthenon in athens. vox populi. vox we ask the people if vox day. we ask the people if the elgin marbles should be. and here's a taste of what they had to say . no no . here's a taste of what they had to say. no no . bold words from to say. no no. bold words from the gentleman there. state the nafion the gentleman there. state the nation starts now . nation starts now. we're also hearing from our illustrious panel, the acclaimed and celebrated historian dr. david starkey, and the equally acclaimed socialist stephen pound. acclaimed socialist stephen pound . as ever, i want to hear pound. as ever, i want to hear from you. get in touch by emailing mail, log at gbnews.uk. but before all of that, as always , it's been a busy day. always, it's been a busy day. and to keep us up to date is polly middlehurst . jacob, th

and the truth is that when george osborne cut corporation tax , more revenue came in to the tax, morerevenue came in to the treasury, not just not just in terms of cash because the economy was growing, but as a percentage of the gdp proportionately , it raised more proportionately, it raised more . and the reason we're being told to put up corporation tax is because of more unelected bodies . not is because of more unelected bodies. not as it happens, the oecd and internal one, but because one of the least effective in national bodies in this country, that is the abbey , the office of budget responsibility , or the office of responsibility, or the office of bungling regiments. as as one can tell, because all it's forecasts are wrong and it's the obe, all that has saying that the government needs raise more tax when in one year it was out by £100 billion on the deficit from its forecast at the beginning of the year to what happened. and it's 30 billion out from its forecast. if i remember rightly, from november to january. it is so staggering wrong that it manages to make us make the w

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he called in a favour from his former colleague george osborne, by now the editor of the london evening and the paper gave him space to encourage people to get tested. the daily telegraph also reports this man, jacob rees mogg, then a minister, had a covid test career to one of his homes for one of his children after the initial test had been lost. at prime minister's questions, there was this exchange between rishi sunak and the labour leader. exchange between rishi sunak and the labour leader-— labour leader. families across the country will _ labour leader. families across the country will look _ labour leader. families across the country will look at _ labour leader. families across the country will look at this _ labour leader. families across the country will look at this and - labour leader. families across the country will look at this and the i country will look at this and the sight of politicians writing books, portraying themselves as heroes or selectively leaking messages will be an insulting and ghoulish spectacle for them. ., an insulting and ghoulish spectacle for them.

david cameron, george osborne, i mean, big time cozying up to china.the cabinet that you were in. oh, i know. i was. yeah, i did make some comments about it, but i'm not going to break into the confidentiality. but this is a country growing in power, growing in assertiveness. and ijust draw attention to something which has gone missing because of all the other stuff going on in the house today. but far more important than all this stuff this week was that president xi, at the end of his banquet, turned to president putin and said something along the lines of that — these we are seeing changes to — the biggest they have been for over 100 years and then he goes on to say, and we will control those changes together. now, this is a man who has created a war in ukraine, huge abuses, human rights threats, and another man, another authoritarian state, very powerful, full of money and lots of technology is basically saying to him, we're together over changing it. and i know what he means. what he's saying is our form of government, our unelected, dictatorial f

then in the last decade, chancellors, successive chancellors including george osborne, cut that limithe point where high—paid people like doctors are bumping up against it because their pension pots are worth more than £1 million, and the bma have been lobbying to raise this limit so that doctors are not faced with a choice where if i carry on working i am just bringing myself a tax charge. if you bus to the limit, you get a tax charge, another 55% on a lump sum, or another 25% on top of normal income tax rate. in order to avoid that, the government are saying we are going to raise that, or at least we think that is what the government is going to say tomorrow. in terms of the numbers of people it will benefit, only 300,000 people, according to actuaries we have spoken to, actually have reached the limit so far. the number that are heading for a breach of that are heading for a breach of that limit is just that are heading for a breach of that limit isjust 1.3 that are heading for a breach of that limit isjust1.3 million. so, just to give you an idea, that is less than 4% of the workf

and when george osborne reduced corporation tax down to 20, then 19% was going to go down to 70. fact, the chancellor, current chancellor jeremy hunt wanted corporation tax to be as low as 15. instead, what do we do to do exactly the opposite? and the record has shown when the corporation tax was reduced . our tax take was reduced. our tax take actually went up . so to try and actually went up. so to try and get this £18 billion extra per yean get this £18 billion extra per year, which is what it up being by increasing corporation tax 25 is so it is literally the goose that lays the golden because what you're doing is you're hampering the growth. you're our recovery from the worst since the second world war and really important is your hampering inward investment from abroad. having the high rate of corporation tax sends out a bad signal. we've seen that with astrazeneca deciding to invest in ireland next door, 12 and a half , half in ireland next door, 12 and a half, half our rate now . and the half, half our rate now. and the chancellor prime minister say, oh, we've got the low

well, the prime minister says no , but the former chancellor, george osborne , now chairman of george owns them on our behalf, thinks they should returned the they should be returned to the parthenon athens . vox populi. parthenon in athens. vox populi. vox we ask the people if vox day. we ask the people if the elgin marbles should be. and here's a taste of what they had to say . no no . here's a taste of what they had to say. no no . bold words from to say. no no. bold words from the gentleman there. state the nafion the gentleman there. state the nation starts now . nation starts now. we're also hearing from our illustrious panel, the acclaimed and celebrated historian dr. david starkey, and the equally acclaimed socialist stephen pound. acclaimed socialist stephen pound . as ever, i want to hear pound. as ever, i want to hear from you. get in touch by emailing mail, log at gbnews.uk. but before all of that, as always , it's been a busy day. always, it's been a busy day. and to keep us up to date is polly middlehurst . jacob, thank polly middlehurst. jacob, thank you and good evening

if i think about what george osborne did in 2010 when he raised the personal tax threshold that processed in 2010. in 2022, 12 years later, rishi sunak announced as chancellor a budget that meant for the first time in our history, every person in this country can earn £1,000 a month without paying tax or national insurance. that is a really big step forward in terms of a reduction in the tax burden . but we got there over burden. but we got there over time . so that was the first part time. so that was the first part we've got. michael crick and patrick o'flynn with us. michael. what did you make of what jeremy hunt was saying there about growth? liz truss was been was right. he said dunng was been was right. he said during the course of that and not about taxes. well he is sticking to the aims of his own budget last autumn you know growth not cutting taxes cutting the debt cutting inflation. and i think he's, you know , he's i think he's, you know, he's a naturally cautious person , i naturally cautious person, i think. and he will try and stick to that in this budget. he doesn't want

it was in 2010 we got the sense that george osborn was looking to cut the rate down to 20% or 19% figuree currently have it at that happened within a five-year sparngs right, cutting it down from the 28% figures we had seen at that time now it may actually go back up from 19% to 25%. so maybe not necessarily a surprise, but really one we're looking out for for clarity, for a clear sense of whether that is indeed what jeremy hunt is slated to do, perhaps to bring in more income the other side of that, of course s whether that will hurt investment in the uk, which already has been hurt overall in lockstep with the left of europe considering the i.r.a. that has happened in the united states. so it is going to be this balancing act that it's going to have to do when it comes to that corporation tax. of course, pension reform is a major one as well to certainly look out for how will that be fixed and perhaps help to maybe balance out the scales a little more it does also help to balance out the books when you change the age of retirement as well. energy, the big question mark considering wher

and george osborne , the chancellor, was still on his feet and nancy still appeared on line standard.eased in this way it's not it's not just briefed it is pressed released in advance. so what is left anything we were saying earlier kevin the irony that this concert creative budget is being so warmly welcomed by the left am by you, why ? what they do is of course why? what they do is of course they brief the good bits, the little child care, fixing thing that's good. extended in the energy cut for three months. these are all good things. maybe 45 pee on a bottle of wine at less so, but will you use your mac? so you get this line, you take maxim with you pull your pork scratching nice rational no labour man nice pie. timothy taylor we are you see anyway. but they are massaging us. yeah so we all think it's great when in fact actually it's a bit of a do nothing boggled because even that rising corporation tax which is charlie i'm sure is waiting to get illness going up you know 90 is it 1920 519 1925, 18 billion all rise because that's been pre—announced it's just coming force now he's

i think the problem is more the lack of housing for people to buy and i think george osborne's got a past because 2010 he made a right mess of the housing market, his second home levy and he let the people who have secondary homes off a lot of them, but by not having to pay them, but by not having to pay the council tax by letting them say, said to let you holiday let it people who are actually buying houses to refurbish and then put out back on the market they counted as a second home which is ludicrous. there's going to be i third is there somebody else now that did let's put those houses up 3% before you'd even done to them and landlords is push most of them out the markets in this letter to people on housing lists from the councils who can't get to rent because pushed of all now it's unfair to say they have their mortgages as an expense against expense is because if the if you're if you a laundrette or something and borrowed to buy more washing machines you could use that you could count that as your expense . why shouldn't the landlord do the same? simply because his his his ass

i think you've written along with former chancellors philip hammond and indeed george osborne, you didn'tm to it was a good idea for him to have stuck with the corporation tax rise. you possibly tax rise. so you can't possibly support so support that in the budget. so i've clearly that i i've said very clearly that i don't didn't actually i was don't i didn't actually i was afraid as myself very carefully what i said. think it what i said. i don't think it helps incentivise investment if you put up corporation taxes to that extent and i've said that consistently , i've always been. consistently, i've always been. what would you ideally like corporation tax to be? should we be on a par with ireland? we should certainly be more competitive france and competitive against france and germany, would imagine would germany, i would imagine would be position. so when i came be your position. so when i came into parliament, i think the corporation rate was 28. and corporation tax rate was 28. and one things that george one of the things that george osborne very successfully osborne did very success

that's where it used to be before osborne cut it. before george osborne cut it. let's not forget. ances, as we did in corporation tax, osborne corporation tax, george osborne got yeah tom, thank got rid of them. yeah tom, thank you for that. we shall see from tomorrow onwards. 11:00, of course special programme begins course, special programme begins here on gb news. so join us for that. coming up, we'll have all the latest on the strikes as well. of course, don't forget the, junior doctors are still out and also talking about the issue of police and the violence against and why that's concerning people first. latest headunes concerning people first. latest headlines with . tamsin park. headlines with. tamsin park. thanks very much. it's 131 headlines with. tamsin park. thanks very much. it's131 here. the headlines . a woman has been the headlines. a woman has been sentenced to and a half years in prison for , perverting the prison for, perverting the course of justice after falsely accusing a number of men of rape . 22 year old ed williams also made a facebook post alleged she had

now, one of the ways that george osborne reduced corporation tax headline rates was that he got rid of those capital allowances work. so i would say we do want to bring down our effective corporation tax the total amount people pay as corporation tax as a proportion of their profits . a proportion of their profits. we do want to bring those down. it looks like conservative backbenchers will not get their wish for a full scale reversal of this revised corporation tax. but what they might get is some mitigation or a full expensing regime which might go some way to quell some of that backbench discontent . tom harwood going discontent. tom harwood going use and tom joins us in the studio. i think you're a bit optimistic. i think there's going to be a bit of discontent tomorrow. i think there certainly will however, the certainly will be. however, the question what extent will question is to what extent will it assert itself? and it does look like there will be this perhaps a rabbits out of the hat in terms of a full expensing regime . but many companies and regime. but many companies and

so one of the key mantras of george osborne in the coalition, i think we evidence suggests that didn'te the effect we hoped to attracting new investment , something that was investment, something that was more targeted , whether the super more targeted, whether the super deduction or the capital allowances is a better way doing that, as you say , it's that, as you say, it's a temporary measure, but of course it , could be rolled over. it, could be rolled over. i mean, the problem with trying to deal with , you know, we agree, deal with, you know, we agree, i think, is that desperate need for more private business investment . and but but what is investment. and but but what is holding it back i mean isn't just tax rates. i mean, you've got higher cost of capital because of rising interest rates , weak demand. i would argue the brexit effect was very substantial. so there's a combination of things holding back private , but we've had a back private, but we've had a productivity problem for about 30 years now and nobody seems to work out what's causing it and become what's causing it. it

yeah i'm george osborne . in fact, he george osborne. in fact, he wasn't a socialist.l be no tax no matter how in your pension. it's a 55% extra tax charge. and again , interesting, paul johnson again, interesting, paul johnson from the ifs saying, as you've just said , this measure just said, this measure a sledgehammer to crack a nut in terms of using this nature as example to actually sort of explain why he's doing it. i mean, obviously, there's an increase from the annualised 40 to 60000. well, who can afford that? but putting £60,000 in a pension pot next year? yeah well, i can't and i'm sure nobody watching. gallagher and in terms the line that we're getting from sir starmer, he keeps coming back with this line, a sticking plaster . and i line, a sticking plaster. and i guess looking more towards the general election than he is actually the nuts and bolts of this particular. yeah, i felt a little bit like keir starmer if at all. i felt a lot like keir starmer had written that speech and that speech had gone to draft and yeah. and redrew aft over the past couple o

and the challenge give to that is the increased got in tax take when the reverse was done when george osborneate very significantly and. the gdp share corporation tax went i think from 2.3 to 2.9. so it was a big increase in corporation tax. it roughly . so increase in corporation tax. it roughly. so it didn't change very much the previous trend and, most of the estimates we have from that period should just that the tax changes made pretty marginal difference and see, i mean, it's the evidence that period that the obama is incorporating the in what they're saying today what today's tax changes will mean on corporation to investment and it doesn't make huge amount of difference these matter but they don't matter much and i'm afraid to say you know what, we have the big evidence, i'm afraid of the big evidence, i'm afraid of the last six or seven years is that like uncertainty and the cost of brexit actually have a more damaging impact on investment than the headline rate of corporation tax because what the apra is we've now got pretty clear that brexit has reduced investment and that's one of

george osborne, desperate to lose osborne, is desperate to lose his marbles. he wants to return . . but just today, the prime quelled the rumours and said there were no such plans for their return. so discussing this earlier with my producers of them mentioned a key argument in favour of the return to the marbles, a split in half, and it would be better if they were unified. well simple. we can make space them in the british museum, the greeks could allow us to unify them here because we've looked after them . well, we've looked after them. well, anyway, enough . my views. vox anyway, enough. my views. vox populi. vox we asked the people about marbles. should they be sent to athens ? i think they sent to athens? i think they marbles should be returned to greece . they belong to greece . greece. they belong to greece. they were part of folk treasure that were brought here and displayed. and i do think they belong to us. i think worldwide heritage things. and that's not particularly something britain should have. yes no bearing towards . i should have. yes no bearing towards. i thin

by under tony blair continued by i'm afraid the government that i was part of the coach of the george osborneis was our future i know i'm afraid our future i know and i'm afraid i against it at the time the golden decade has turned out to be nothing but a of fool's gold. and truth is too many and the truth is too many businesses rushed to china to get stuff cheaply . they get stuff made cheaply. they abandoned idea you need make abandoned the idea you need make some at home and with the some things at home and with the new manufacturing techniques you can do a lot of this stuff back here it doesn't require huge labour we're going to do labour so what we're going to do is allies to is start finding our allies to that of production to and that sort of production to and to bring of it home and is to bring some of it home and is soon at the man to do that. well he has come long way now he has come a long way now because this latest i it because this latest i say it because this latest i say it because i was very critical yesterday. the one yesterday. but the one thing i will say is, they are now

by under tony blair continued by i'm afraid the government that i was part of the coach of the george osborneas our future i know i'm afraid our future i know and i'm afraid i against it at the time the golden decade has turned out to be nothing but a of fool's gold. and truth is too many and the truth is too many businesses rushed to china to get stuff cheaply . they get stuff made cheaply. they abandoned idea you need make abandoned the idea you need make some at home and with the some things at home and with the new manufacturing techniques you can do a lot of this stuff back here it doesn't require huge labour we're going to do labour so what we're going to do is allies to is start finding our allies to that of production to and that sort of production to and to bring of it home and is to bring some of it home and is soon at the man to do that. well he has come long way now he has come a long way now because this latest i it because this latest i say it because this latest i say it because i was very critical yesterday. the one yesterday. but the one thing i will say is, they are now acro

george osborne before brexit referendum, he before the brexit referendum, he said to drive said thate wanted to drive corporation talks down to 51 5. now there's a massive leap between 19% and 25. six points is one hell of a big leap. now, whether this is just a temporary thing in order to recover money post, then that's that's understandable for more sympathetic to it. but six points is a hell of a lot because big companies you know, they they have the workforce that draws great britain and they have a bottom line margin that at the moment they are working on 19. so they are for casting ahead based on 19. but it doesn't. so i think i mean, which is it danica that has just made the decision to go? i think it's going to astrazeneca, to ireland, to more and more rights. so companies of big pharma are gone, gone and more and more big companies if you know if it if nick this time next week we've got 25% corporation tax. i think a lot big companies will be thinking well takes no thanks well health takes no thanks i'm going smaller going elsewhere but smaller companies have a 19% companies

telegraph had on the front page and website between matt and the website between matt hancock and george osborne government the wasn't in government at the time, george time, but matt texted george osborne mass osborne saying, okay, mass testing very well and testing is going very well and george goes, no one george osborne goes, no one thinks is going well. thinks testing is going well. matt smith yeah , i think one of matt smith yeah, i think one of the disasters is actually we're obviously going to talk about this next time around. there's so much more to talk about and will share your views and opinions on this as well. viewers and listeners. scott, let's let's go to this terrible situation between concerned martin and mark gordon . they're martin and mark gordon. they're not in police custody. they have been arrested and where is the baby? that's i mean, this this is a horrible horrible story, actually . that that that so this actually. that that that so this couple. and he is a convicted rape . well, we have to be rape. well, we have to be a little bit careful about what do say in relation

george osborne says... he eventually resigned in the video posted on twitter.shining a light on how a minister at his closest aides game planned a crisis. meanwhile, mps investigating the conduct of the former prime minister borisjohnson, say he may have misled parliament multiple times over gatherings at downing street during the pandemic. we can get the latest on this now with our political correspondent charlotte rose. charlotte — what more do we know? this report is from a cross—party committee of mps, called the privileges committee. they are not looking at the issue of lockdown parties per se, all that was mitigated by that senior civil servant sue gray, and by metropolitan police last year. what they are looking at specifically is whether boris johnson they are looking at specifically is whether borisjohnson misled mps in statements that he gifted parliament. they see this report, which is the initial report, based on things like e—mails, photographs they have received, and 46 whatsapp messages that have been supplied to them by borisjohnson's lawyers, a

to crawl as far george osborne's backside and possibly get will be careful if you do that because youly to run into matt hancock . oh my little. i'm matt hancock. oh my little. i'm not joking. the whole room. yes i mean, david cameron's really on the floor and the people not laughing with my mark. did you speak without reputation ? speak without reputation? hesitation? i did. i got to that point, but then literally have to stop because i feel so . the to stop because i feel so. the next morning at breakfast, david comes in. i have and stop laughing about probably best i need to know that meant to be secret it became a double page spread papers that the next day. yeah so it's public vessels unequal to the story i think we've got a touch on absolutely so great story . well now as a so great story. well now as a form of new and new, my concern my concern if for you , if you my concern if for you, if you guys would be in the tory party is what does she know? she knows everything about you, esther. when you became culture secretary, you given your secretary, you have given your full to her

i think the problem is more the lack of housing for people to buy and i think george osborne's got at in the past because 2010 he made a right mess of the housing market, his second home levy and he let the people who have secondary homes off a lot of them, but by not having to pay them, but by not having to pay the council tax by letting them say, said to let you holiday let it people who are actually buying houses to refurbish and then put out back on the market they counted as a second home which is ludicrous. there's going to be i third is there somebody else now that did let's put those houses up 3% before you'd even done to them and landlords is push most of them out the markets in this letter to people on housing lists from the councils who can't get to rent because pushed of all now it's unfair to say they have their mortgages as an expense against expense is because if the if you're if you a laundrette or something and borrowed to buy more washing machines you could use that you could count that as your expense . why shouldn't the landlord do the same? simply because his his

he called in a favour from his former colleague george osborne — by now the editor of the london eveningob rees mogg, then a minister, had a covid test couriered to one of his homes for one of his children after the initial test had been lost. at prime minister's questions, there was this exchange between rishi sunak and the labour leader. families across the country will look at this and the sight of politicians writing books, portraying themselves as heroes or selectively leaking messages, will be an insulting and ghoulish spectacle for them. rather than comment on piecemeal bits of information, i am sure the honourable gentleman will agree the right way for these things to be looked at is the covid inquiry. the battle to learn lessons and defend reputations over covid was always going to be intense. the stakes so high, the death toll so grim. the expectation had been that would happen primarily in the public inquiry — but the political truth now is the court of opinion is open and hearing evidence, and there are more revelations to come. lost liberties, businesses, education and loved

even george osborne, the former chancellor this week distancing himself from the language that's beingraverman and indeed even rishi sunak. so we have sort of inbuilt guilt complex as a country we have to be nice everybody. and the truth is the truth is when it comes to allowing people into the country, either legally or giving people asylum , namely giving people asylum, namely refugee status . and this word refugee status. and this word will really shock people. we have to discriminate . we have to have to discriminate. we have to make decisions about who we do and do not want to come into the country and you know , even the country and you know, even the use of that word now . i know the use of that word now. i know the labour party say suella rishi is wrong in what they're proposing. we must have open , clear routes we must have open, clear routes for people to come. well how many? i mean, even the unhcr say there are up to 100 million people who potentially could come to britain. i just think about this one of the ways you can claim asylum , britain, is to can claim asylum, britai

you go back to george osborne's version of austerity, which wasn't actually steer, it didn't cut .t cut. the money to the level which we could afford it . level which we could afford it. we carried on borrowing more and it has to be paid back at some point. the answer is constantly higher taxes , which kill higher taxes, which kill innovation hurt companies, prevent more employment by the private sector and reduce the wellbeing of financially of everyone in the country. we need to get growth going to get ourselves out of this generation . no mess indeed , the balance . no mess indeed, the balance sheet is not healthy a non—starter. rees—mogg do you think that we will see any politicians any time soon being straight with the british people about our economic situation ? i about our economic situation? i don't know . there's an appetite don't know. there's an appetite for it at the but i think there needs to be need to be realistic. we need to live in a way that can secure the future for our children. we're talking about mother's day . this is about mother's day. this is about mother

you go back to george osborne's version of austerity, which wasn't actually steer, it didn't cut .t cut. the money to the level which we could afford it . level which we could afford it. we carried on borrowing more and it has to be paid back at some point. the answer is constantly higher taxes , which kill higher taxes, which kill innovation hurt companies, prevent more employment by the private sector and reduce the wellbeing of financially of everyone in the country. we need to get growth going to get ourselves out of this generation . no mess indeed , the balance . no mess indeed, the balance sheet is not healthy a non—starter. rees—mogg do you think that we will see any politicians any time soon being straight with the british people about our economic situation ? i about our economic situation? i don't know . there's an appetite don't know. there's an appetite for it at the but i think there needs to be need to be realistic. we need to live in a way that can secure the future for our children. we're talking about mother's day . this is about mother's day. this is about mother

but i went tories like caroline nokes, george osborne wrong to oppose the party's efforts to kerb invasione big debate with my superstar panel next. and tonight, they are i'm joined by carole malone , benjamin carole malone, benjamin butterworth and belinda de lucy with plans to relaunch her wellness and lifestyle blog, the tig. meghan markle is set to become the world's worst agony. aunt so as she asserts her children's to be called prince and princesses , duchess of and princesses, duchess of delusion becoming all too aware of her dwindling relevance , the of her dwindling relevance, the daily telegraph star columnist celia walden gives an unflinching take on that very shortly . then, in the media shortly. then, in the media buzz, as schools labour run wales teach children sex education using gender fluid muffins should the left be stopped from pushing their danger race gender ideology on our young folk? and at last night's oscars, it's four weddings and a funeral. this interview as career . what are interview as career. what are you wearing tonight then ? just you wearing tonight then?

but i went tories like caroline nokes, george osborne wrong to oppose the party's efforts to kerb invasiong debate with my superstar panel next. and tonight, they are i'm joined by carole malone , benjamin carole malone, benjamin butterworth and belinda de lucy with plans to relaunch her wellness and lifestyle blog, the tig. meghan markle is set to become the world's worst agony. aunt so as she asserts her children's to be called prince and princesses , duchess of and princesses, duchess of delusion becoming all too aware of her dwindling relevance , the of her dwindling relevance, the daily telegraph star columnist celia walden gives an unflinching take on that very shortly . then, in the media shortly. then, in the media buzz, as schools labour run wales teach children sex education using gender fluid muffins should the left be stopped from pushing their danger race gender ideology on our young folk? and at last night's oscars, it's four weddings and a funeral. this interview as career . what are interview as career. what are you wearing tonight then ? just you wearing tonight then? just

even george osborne, the former chancellor this week distancing himself from the language that's beingraverman and indeed even rishi sunak. so we have sort of inbuilt guilt complex as a country we have to be nice everybody. and the truth is the truth is when it comes to allowing people into the country, either legally or giving people asylum , namely giving people asylum, namely refugee status . and this word refugee status. and this word will really shock people. we have to discriminate . we have to have to discriminate. we have to make decisions about who we do and do not want to come into the country and you know , even the country and you know, even the use of that word now . i know the use of that word now. i know the labour party say suella rishi is wrong in what they're proposing. we must have open , clear routes we must have open, clear routes for people to come. well how many? i mean, even the unhcr say there are up to 100 million people who potentially could come to britain. i just think about this one of the ways you can claim asylum , britain, is to can claim asylum, britai

, matt hancock george osborne, matt hancock i think there's a sort of similar flavour of something goingestions about there has been questions about problems within the civil service. we know that that has been civil been tensions between civil servants and politicians. the mail details, an email from sue gray in which she sort of voiced her opinion on the government's decision to block the scottish gender recognition reform bill and, you know, things like that i think are all worth noticing that we are in a world of leaks , of intrigue, of spy dying, of bias . and all of that i think bias. and all of that i think creates for the people outside of new gb views gb news viewers and listeners watching , there and listeners watching, there was a sort of sense of cynicism about politics at the moment. and i think this kind of thing doesn't help, let's put it that way. no no, i don't i don't think it does. what's going in the mail on sunday? so they're talking about paul quarles. yes it's very much the food and drink. now in the headlines because it's all about free trade . we might be able to

and one of the things this government has to do is unwind some of george osborne's attack on pensionck on pension funds, which started back in 2015. i think and now you've got to stay age. you haven't got there yet, mark, but hopefully you will you get to a stage where you're at what your pension fund is actually worth in real time and you are going to be paying an awful lot of on it. that's not a good idea. we should encourage everybody to save . we should everybody to save. we should encourage everybody stay at encourage everybody to stay at work and push up their pension funds, that shouldn't funds, which that and shouldn't be as we are, for be forcing them as we are, for example, with consultants and the nhs to retire far too . and the nhs to retire far too. and then they don't go back to work . and what about benefits ? does . and what about benefits? does it still pay to work ? then it still pay to work? then looking at two seeking the universal credit system and that probably is a very good idea . i probably is a very good idea. i heard a lot about sweden from you and one of t

and one of the things this government has to do is unwind some of george osborne's attack on pensionck on pension funds, which started back in 2015. i think and now you've got to stay age. you haven't got there yet, mark, but hopefully you will you get to a stage where you're at what your pension fund is actually worth in real time and you are going to be paying an awful lot of on it. that's not a good idea. we should encourage everybody to save . we should everybody to save. we should encourage everybody stay at encourage everybody to stay at work and push up their pension funds, that shouldn't funds, which that and shouldn't be as we are, for be forcing them as we are, for example, with consultants and the nhs to retire far too . and the nhs to retire far too. and then they don't go back to work . and what about benefits ? does . and what about benefits? does it still pay to work ? then it still pay to work? then looking at two seeking the universal credit system and that probably is a very good idea . i probably is a very good idea. i heard a lot about sweden from you and one of t

helen is the ceo of blood and money and is also former adviser to george osborne , which i must confessi didn't know until we were preparing for this item , because you were very this item, because you were very good enough to on the program quite often talking about some savings and tips for people and what have you. so the big picture , there's a little bit of picture, there's a little bit of growth as falling inflation. there's lower borrowing than fed the backdrop . chancellor jeremy the backdrop. chancellorjeremy hunt could be considerably worse . it is , yes, which isn't . it is, yes, which isn't necessarily the best political background you might want. you want to really be able to pull all the rabbits from the hat or want to save from some some terrible nightmare . and terrible nightmare. and actually, unfortunately, we've been through the terrible nightmare. we've got a dreadful last few months , not just the last few months, not just the weather, but the cost of living crisis, which is just dragged on and on have been so painful for everybody. and, of course, know this, these

david cameron's george osborne's government lowered corporation tax they brought it down to a very lowal level of 19, but they eliminated an awful lot of these sort of tax breaks . so you had a simpler tax breaks. so you had a simpler structure . simpler structures structure. simpler structures are usually better and you weren't trying to direct businesses what they should be doing with the money. and as a conservative, i was very comfortable with that . and this comfortable with that. and this is a different approach. this is a more business, greg, a bit more business, greg, but a bit brown. bit more like gordon brown. so directing companies, they directing companies, what they should and. it is the should be doing and. it is the case that investment in might be good, not every is good and good, but not every is good and there'll be investments made by business. now marginal invest marginal profitable that they'll do for the tax break which basically will mean some of the money will just get wasted and instead it's good. well it's a tax break to incentivise investment is right. and no

much the government would pay in terms of what we are getting from hinkley point —— the deal george osbornee about because of the conservative government, he said. that is the stage of the technological developer, they cannot play much personal responsibility for that. in play much personal responsibility for that. , ., , ., for that. in terms of your orosoectsi _ for that. in terms of your orosoectsi yon _ for that. in terms of your prospects, you want i for that. in terms of your prospects, you want to i for that. in terms of your i prospects, you want to change for that. in terms of your - prospects, you want to change the way politics is done in this country and also change the economy at the same time. does this help you, the sense of what the government has been doing, does it help in the run into the next election? we been doing, does it help in the run into the next election?— into the next election? we are finding that — into the next election? we are finding that voters _ into the next election? we are finding that voters have i into the next election? we are finding that voters h

i was watching george osborne talking this yesterday and he was saying that she's not a particularlytical person . she's party political person. she's not very she doesn't feel that visceral loyalty to any particular party. so that's probably okay, isn't it? but he said , but then she's now joining said, but then she's now joining the like leader of the labour party, the most overtly political appointment. and it's very rare for senior civil servant to be allowed to go straight a job that straight into a job that political. when she was political. in fact when she was in of civil service in charge of civil service ethics propriety stopped ethics and propriety stopped a woman from the number 10 honours unit going to the house of lords for a year because she said, it looked too uncomfortable . looked too uncomfortable. there's a fascinating letter in there's a fascinating letter in the today lord the times today from lord renwick, ambassador renwick, former ambassador to washington, the washington, who said the appointment and appointment is a mistake and i think he's right. and a lot

at the same time had to remember austerity back in 2010 when the george osborne government froze everythingr of years. well, the austerity has lasted much, much longer. in fact its only now with this announcement with possibly hearing tomorrow that they're planning on getting of they're planning on getting of the pensions, austerity that has lasted since 2010. so all allowances for how much you can put into pension, how much money you build up before been you can build up before been frozen for literally last 13 frozen for literally the last 13 years. so this is this kind of a bit overdue because the inflation pay rises and so on have all eaten away at the value of those savings pots in order to bring them up today you had to bring them up today you had to you had to do something. so i think it's good. it's actually if he does this, it will be good for everybody. right. look, for everybody. all right. look, tom very, very much, tom thank you very, very much, tom thank you very, very much, tom those pension tom thank you very, very much, tom i'll those pension tom thank you very, very much,

public prosecutions, they need to talk to people that put that in place, which was cameron and george osborneons to hit the cup in any case. so those provisions don't actually 6my those provisions don't actually apply to the point of the problem that the country's focussed on is that last focussed on here is that last week, not 13 years ago, last week, not 13 years ago, last week , jeremy hunt's the week, jeremy hunt's the conservative charles of the exchequer stood up and he raised stealth taxes on working people across the country leaving them burdened with the highest rates of personal taxation for 70 years. yet he was doing that, piling on the misery on top of the high inflation and low wages that we've been suffering from for these past ten years. while he was doing, he gave £1,000,000,000 to the £1,000,000,000 tax bung to the wealthiest 1. is stark unfairness of what jeremy hunt did last week. that is the problem, not arrangements put in place 13 years ago by george . place 13 years ago by george. i'll ask again then. stephen would labour change those rules that you're being so . critic