just a second, will phillip hammond address this on wednesday? yes, i know he will.ncredible, people are in favour of the principle. what is extraordinary is this six—week delay intended to get people used to being paid in arrears as if they were then work demonstrates such a failure of the psychology of people in difficulty. thank you. that's all for this evening. but before we go, have you ever wondered what it's like to enter mars' atmosphere at twice the speed of sound attached to a parachute? nasa has released a point of view footage of the parachute. goodnight. slow motion, in video originally shot at 1000 frames per second. but played back here at 30 frames per second, we see the initial suspension lines pulling out of the pack and taking the parachute backwards, where it will ultimately inflate in merely half a second.

the uk economy will shrink more than expected — but phillip hammond says he's making britain fit fors out—and—about throughout the morning — talking to businesses, workers and young voters to find out whether they feel that they're among the winners or losers. good morning — it's thursday 23rd november. also this morning, the christmas con — police warn shoppers to beware after an increase in fraud. why drinking three or four cups of coffee a day could be good for your health.

i think phillip hammond is in a bit of a bind. he is under pressure from some

phillip hammond will walk out of that door on wednesday knowing that the contents of his budget box coulderesa may's struggling government, as well as his own. unusually, cabinet colleagues have been arguing publicly for more money to be spent on the health service, on house—building. tory mps are urging him to come up with some bold ideas to prove this is a government that has a purpose beyond brexit. the chancellor knows as well that there are critical tory mps who want him out of his job, because they don't think his heart is in the task of getting britain out of the eu. we won't be a government that is defined just by brexit... the outcome of the brexit negotiations will matter much more than any single budget — and tomorrow, a core group of cabinet ministers, including the chancellor, will discuss how to unblock talks, knowing that an offer of more money might be the key. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. the budget coverage, of course, all day here on wednesday of this week. that is literally. stay with us, though, as it is here with the rest of the news in 15 minutes' time. that h

i think phillip hammond is in a bit of a bind. he is under pressure from some cabinet ministers like sajid javid who have said that we need tonnes more investment in house building and infrastructure. on the other side he has a lot of brexiteers who are very side he has a lot of brexiteers who are very much looking to hamstring him for anything they can in this budget and if he goes too far one way he risks damaging this reputation of fiscal responsibility that he spent seven years cultivating. can he not get around that by saying that this money is no longer on the books of the treasury or the public accounts because it is housing associations and they are not part of the public sector?” guess he can. ijust think he is in a very precarious position, especially given the disastrous budget of last year with his u—turn on national insurance for example. he had to climb down in a matter of days after the huge backlash. i think he is under a lot of pressure to get this right. whether that will come off for him remains to be seen. anot

this is what phillip hammond wants to see, and he's calling time on so—called land—hoarders, saying itn't being built on. today he told the bbc the state would intervene. there are, in london alone, 270,000 residential planning permissions that have not today been built. we need to understand why these planning permissions that are going up all over the country, that will continue to increase across the country, why they are not being built out. on wednesday, philip hammond will announce £5 billion of investment for new housing, and he will reveal a range of measures not only designed to encourage the big construction firms but also schemes such as government—backed loans for smaller developers too. there could also be help for first—time buyers on things like stamp duty. the drive for more housing has cross—party support. but labour said today the government isn't doing enough for public services. shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell argued this could be funded by ending tax cuts for the wealthy, not through borrowing. stop giving the tax cuts to the corporations and the rich and recognise

phillip hammond will walk out of that door on wednesday knowing that the contents of his budget box couldfortunes of theresa may's struggling government, as well as his own. unusually, cabinet colleagues have been arguing publicly for more money to be spent on the health service, on house—building. tory mps are urging him to come up with some bold ideas to prove this is a government that has a purpose beyond brexit. the chancellor knows as well that there are critical tory mps who want him out of his job, because they don't think his heart is in the task of getting britain out of the eu. we won't be a government that is defined just by brexit... the outcome of the brexit negotiations will matter much more than any single budget — and tomorrow, a core group of cabinet ministers, including the chancellor, will discuss how to unblock talks, knowing that an offer of more money might be the key. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. kamal ahmed, our economics editor, is here. how do you think the chancellor is going to chart a course through this terrain? it is interesting, john macdonald's posit

well, tomorrow it's phillip hammond's turn to use long, economicky words.budget simple. his task is to ease austerity with what little money he has at his disposal. and to sound less gloomy about brexit than he may be feeling. the chancellor will announce an education package of around £177 million to promote maths skills — part of a drive towards productivity and learning — as well as a little bit more for teacher training. perhaps the hardest challenge for the government right now is working out how to bring young people, voting in their droves for corbyn at the last election, into the conservative fold. here's chris cook. as we've got closer and closer to finding out what's in the chancellor's red box, it's become clearer and clearer that the space he has to wield it has shrunk and shrunk. his last budget in march was hardly a giveaway to begin with. since then, though, his options haven't improved. economists worry in particular about something that they refer to as "head rooom". that's the term they give to the amount of money that the chancellor has o

at lunchtime today the chancellor, phillip hammond, will deliver the budget.s been going up while they have not seen their pay go up. that means it feels like, in real terms you have less money to spend on the things you might have done in the past. that has put a lot of pressure on people. at the same time you have a government which is real in a lot of debt. we still have something like £1.8 trillion worth of debt. that is a totally unimaginable number, isn't it? and we haven't been able to pay down that debt, because we are still spending more than we are bringing in from taxes, so we are still in what we call the deficit. so what the chancellor has to do is try and work out how to make sure the country can keep running, and we can keep providing the services we all need, and we'll have a nice life, and the same time not make that deficit any bigger. so eventually we can get rid of it and start paying off the debt. there is also pressure forfamilies, themselves, off the debt. there is also pressure for families, themselves, with off the debt. there is also

driverless cars, new homes and disposable plastic containers will be on phillip hammond's agenda, whenestminster watchers say he'll also be concerned with presenting a positive vision for post—brexit britain, and creating a moment of unity for his party. henry mance is the political correspondent for the financial times, and joins us from our london newsroom. good morning. we were talking to our political correspondent earlier and this is the weekend when the leaks started to come out ahead of the budget. anything surprise you? we have seen philip hammond talk positive about housing. it is not really surprising because we know the conservatives and labour leave this is an area where young people are being squeezed out of the housing market. homes costing too much. he is trying to be as bold as he can be without annoying traditional conservative voters who don't want homes built on the green belt. how positive is this budget going to be? we were saying with brexit negotiations going on, he is determined to give a positive outlook for the uk post brexit?” remember the time when budgetss

we cannot start preparations on the basis of no deal — a not too subtle dig at the chancellor phillip hammondour agenda forward with confidence. it‘s now reported that a0 mps from theresa may‘s own party are ready to sign a letter of no confidence in her leadership. only 48 would be needed to trigger a vote. and so earlier today, i talked to graham brady — chairman of the powerful 1922 committee of tory backbenchers — whose job it would be to deliver that letter of no confidence were it written. the claim that there are a0 colleagues ready to call for a no confidence vote, wasn‘t, as far as i could tell, supported by any source that was quoted, so i would treat it with considerable caution, but in terms of the process, if we were ever to reach a point where15% of the parliamentary conservative party, currently 48 members of parliament, wrote to me asking for a confidence vote to be held, it would be incumbent upon me to arrange such a vote as soon as could be reasonably managed. the other letter that was in the newspapers this weekend was from boris johnson and michael gove, which we are led

the uk economy will shrink more than expected — but phillip hammond says he's making britain fit forure. he'lljoin us to tell us how. and steph is out—and—about throughout the morning — talking to businesses, workers and young voters to find out whether they feel that they're among the winners or losers. good morning — it's thursday 23rd november. also this morning, the christmas con — police warn shoppers to beware after an increase in fraud. why drinking three or four cups of coffee a day could be good for your health. and it's day one of the men's ashes series in australia. after all of the talk in the build up, it's england who've made the best start of the two teams in brisbane. and carol has the weather. with hats and snowfall across parts of scotla nd with hats and snowfall across parts of scotland overnight. —— we have had. and many of us, dry day with sunny spells but some ship —— showers around. still quite windy. i will have more in 15 minutes. first, our main story. conservative mps have rallied around the chancellor after his budget was overshadowed by a gloomier than ex

we have got the budget tomorrow and phillip hammond will no doubt be telling us how economic league andom? i don't think we are being held to ransom, i think we are being held to ransom, i think the language about shovelling shed loads of money is pretty intemperate and let's not forget that nigel his fellow band of brexit campaigners never told us during the referendum campaign that this money would need to be paid. 0f referendum campaign that this money would need to be paid. of course, it was always clear that it would need to be paid but i don't think the british public was ever really told about that. it has to be about the contractual obligations. in any real divorce, what happens is you have to look at who owns what and you separate it out. i must say, i'm very glad that if anyone was in a real divorce with nigel, they would have a pretty hard time grabbing hold of his record collection and not letting any bits ago. not my record collection! the bottom line is, if you go in the pub and you order around and then you decide you don't want them and walk out, you still have to pay to

weak productivity philip hammond has delivered his first budget since the general election in june he was promising to tackle the peak economic outlook head on barnaby phillips joins us live from london so barnaby i see we're talking here about a three billion pound pledge because of the cost of bricks it breaks it's getting more expensive. well it's certainly a challenge for philip hammond peter and it puts him in a rather tight spot let's just talk about those growth predictions that the context is that britain was very much the star performer all virtually the star performer of the g seven group of countries in till about a year ago and it's now if you believe these projections one of the weakest performers the economy will leap along limp along i'm sorry at around about one and a half percent sometimes less over the next four years or so and at the same time you have a chancellor in a minority government unpopular with many of his own members of parliament and he's got to stand up and try and make the best of a bad hand and that's why he was talking about very domestic issues cutting taxes for homeowners spending some more on social welfare spending some

hammond done enough to save his job? we will all have to rethink our views on him because week or thought of him as phillip the dull, spreadsheets joking about michael gove and we had that cough sweet stu nt gove and we had that cough sweet stunt with mrs may, and in terms of the real pressure he was under he seemed to go around picking of all the difficulties that he and the tories were facing, putting on a bit more money here and a bit more money there so the image is boss has said, i need £4 billion and he says, here is £2.8 billion, that will help you along. we knew there was a looming revolt of the universal credit so out of his back pocket there's another £i.5 out of his back pocket there's another £1.5 million to ease some of the problems. brexiteers throwing bread rolls at him, he says nice things about brexit and offers them £2 billion to help smooth passage, business community, they weren't happy about changes to business rates and vat, sorted. he listens to them. and everywhere, there have been a real revolt. he found a way of just taking the been a real revolt. he found a way ofjust taking the heat out of it with a

as philip hammond left number 11 journalist called out, is this a make or break budget? it is, isn't it? it is an important budget, all of them are, and phillipp is on the path to deal with debt but also find investment for people'spriorities. is there scope for that with the backdrop of brexit? he has limited headroom in terms of money available, parliamentary majorities, but he has headroom because of decisions he has taken as headroom because of decisions he has ta ken as chancellor, headroom because of decisions he has taken as chancellor, including adjustments to fiscal rules to reflect where we are and the emphasis, we have seen in terms of investing in research, technology, computer science, this is about making it a competitive economy and seizing opportunities not just making it a competitive economy and seizing opportunities notjust as a result of leaving the eu but in terms of technology. we will come back to some of this. what is labour's role today? your party is behind in the opinion polls on trust in the economy. we should say it is clear austerity over the last seven years has failed dismally and it is notjust me saying that i