Hannah miller, has the story. In homes across the country and Public Services on the ground, it can seem like everyone is crying out for cash. We have got roads full of potholes. Are you confident that the chancellor will be persuaded to give you more money to spend on housing in the budget in a few weeks time . Well, im doing everything that i can. I mean, short of laying siege to his own home. Well, i want us to be, you know, l Cutting Taxes in a responsible way. Under pressure from backbenchers and with less money to play with than hed hoped for the chancellors scrabbling around for ways to pay for a tax cut on a scale that voters will notice. Today, mr speaker, im going to cut the main 12 rate of Employee National insurance. Last year, he chose to cut National Insurance contributions and its thought he may do that again. A tax cut for workers that brings no benefit to pensioners. The Number Crunching going on inside number 11 is not just about the state of the nations finances its
Wednesday and beyond, High Pressure building across in scandinavia, low pressure out to this programme continues on bbc one. Later this year, you will choose your next government. Tonight, ahead of what could be the last budget before that election, the people of Doncaster East tell us what their life is like, and what they would like to hear from politicians in the coming months. Election, the people of Doncaster East tell us what their life is like, and what they would like to hear from politicians in the coming months. Good evening and welcome to lincolnshire. The chancellor delivers his budget in two days time, and that could be the last big economic announcement before the next general election. Showers elsewhere but many again will have a predominately dry day on wednesday, its the successor to the don valley seat, a former Coal Mining Area where voters elected only labour mps from 1922 to 2019. Thats when the conservatives wanted for the very first time. Weve invited an audience
bills will come down about £430 starting injuly, good news, hopefully we are over the worst and they will keep coming down. but we need to make sure this doesn t happen again and they keep coming down, so we need to have more energy, so we are investing more in renewable energy, building more nuclear power stations, but also making sure that we beget more energy here at home that we will needin energy here at home that we will need in the next few decades as we transition to cleaner future, so we are investing in that also. is another area, weekly shop, gone up far too much in the past three months, especially. we are looking at the supermarket, making sure they are behaving responsibly unfairly when it comes to pricing all those products to make sure we are easing the burden is on your weekly shop. when it comes to jobs, most of you probably reading the paper that businesses everywhere really need people to work at the moment, and they are finding a hard to find them, almos
in just the next five years? and a view of the wreck of the titanic likely have never it before. and coming up on bbc news. inter milan are the first team through to the champions league final. will it be manchester city or real madrid who willjoin them? their semifinal will be decided tonight. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification, as part of a long promised overhaul of the private rental sector in england. a new law to be tabled in parliament would abolish no fault evictions, and end bans on tenants claiming benefits. the government says the reforms will benefit 11 million tenants. but labour is warning the private rented sector, increasingly resembles the wild west, and it s far from clear that ministers can deliver on their promises. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has our top story. renting is a way of life for anthony. the former police officer and his beloved cats are livi