this is kirsty blackman. this being timely. it is timely because it happens to happen the week of the sue gray report. itjust happens that report came out yesterday and the chancellor has suddenly realised today that people are really struggling, that he suddenly needs to announce something about it. the chancellor stood up in the spring statement that he made when he announced the energy loan and said, look at these amazing things i am announcing, and genuinely seemed to believe at that time that that was the best this government could do. now he has changed his mind, he has listened to the calls of the opposition, he has listened to the calls of people up and down these islands who are struggling, who are struggling in many cases more than they have ever struggled before. i don't understand why he has announced only a £15 billion package. he has got £28 billion of fiscal headroom in public sector net debt. he has got £32 billion of fiscal headroom in balancing the current budget. those are the 0br figures f

snp spokesman, kirsty blackman. it snp spokesman, kirsty blackman.it is quite amusing to hear the chancellor talked about this being timely. it is timely, itjust happens to have happened the week of the sue gray report. itjust happens that that report came out yesterday and the chancellor has suddenly realised today that people are really struggling. he has suddenly realised he needs to announce something about it. the chancellor stood up in the spring statement that he made when he announced the energy loan and said look at these amazing things i am announcing and i genuinely believe it that that is the best this government could do. now he has changed his mind. he has listened to the cause of the opposition, he has listened to the calls of people up and down these islands who are struggling, who are struggling in many cases more than they have ever struggled before. i don't understand, madam deputy speaker, why he has announced only a £15 billion package. he has got £28 billion of fiscal headroom in public sector net debt. he has got £32 billion of

kirsty blackman, _ does not go far enough. kirsty blackman, for _ does not go far enough.es. more on that. it's emerged that the teenager who killed 19 children and 2 teachers at a primary school in texas on tuesday wrote messages about the attack on facebook moments earlier. salvador ramos was shot dead by police after he barricaded himself inside a classroom. president biden is expected travel to the town of uvalde in the next few days, to meet the families of those killed. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from there. they came for the thoughts and prayers. families held each other tightly to try and make sense of the unimaginable. they sang and prayed. the mood was sombre, and their grief palpable. this couple told us their eight—year—old grandson made it out of the school alive. i went and checked on my grandson. as soon as he saw me, he hugged me, he was so scared. and i cried with him also. i told him, it'll be ok. this is a community that's dealing with profound grief — and people came here inside the arena in their hundreds. usually rodeo shows h