u. k. po brennan reports from manchester. richie soon ac is the former investment bank analyst, now running the u. case treasury and widely regarded as a likely success as to the current prime minister boris johnson. when the u. k, went into coven lockdown in 2020. soon ex government backed fellow scheme, subsidized the salaries of more than $11000000.00 workers at a cost of $95000000000.00. now he says, it's time to start balancing the books. i have to be blunt with you. our recovery comes with a cost. our national debt is almost a 100 percent of g d p. so we need to fix our public finances. so this week, low income families will stop receiving a temporary 20 pounds or $27.00 us dollars a week. uplift to a social benefit called universal credit. and taxes are going up to, it's going to be a very tough winter for some. and my great worry is that we can have lots more people pushed into downs of loan sharks falls to use the banks and not see that so necessary. you know, the government could just continue with the 20 pound weekly, later into the winter, into the yes, spring and summer next ye

u. k. doesn't grant war licenses to french fishing vessels. the british government says that will put you in a breach of a trade agreement. po brennan has moved from london. the route over the fishing rights dispute has at least 4 and off the front pages of the case, major newspapers on saturday. but the exasperation over how this disputes has been allowed to fester an escalator over the past 4 days remains bars, johnson is in is in room for the g 20. and he's been speaking with the president of the european commission, actually on the land reiterating what he describes. his puzzlement that he has got this far. he told us live on the land that he raised concerns about the rhetoric of the french side. he told her that the threats by the french were completely unjustified. that is the threats to prevent british catches from being landed in french ports. and he told reporters before he met miss what mrs. wonderland, that basically britain would do, whatever is necessary to protect you. k interest, but at least that wasn't an escalation of the kind of rhetoric that we've seen earlier in the week where one of his ministers was saying to complain t