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Rishi sunak 5 spring statement included a number of measures designed to help uk households cope with the rising cost of living, including cutting fuel duty and raising the threshold at which people start paying national insurance. but what does this mean for your money? carl emerson is from the institute of fiscal studies and joins us now. thanks for talking to us this morning. im interested to know your initial reaction to the spring statement yesterday? i initial reaction to the spring statem...

In british newspapers. jeff mcallister is a trained lawyer and former white house correspondent and head of time magazines london bureau. vera krichevskaya is a documentary film—maker whose independent tv station in russia has been taken off the air. welcome to you all. to have you with this week. its ukrainians who are bearing the agonies of war, and russians — if sanctions are effective — who will pay the price. yet each and every finance minister across the industrialised world is havin...

He is at central lobby, welcome to you. labour have been saying that rishi sunak has been a tax—raising chancellor, but today he has promised to cut the basic rate of income tax by ip in 2024 and is increasing the threshold by which we start paying national insurance by £3000, which is a £6 billion tax cut which will benefit many workers, so do we want to change your mantra about rishi sunak? trio. do we want to change your mantra about rishi sunak?— about rishi sunak? no, we learnt three ...

Against those global challenges. but where we can make a difference, of course well and that is why the policies announced today are a significant intervention. they will put billions of pounds back into the pockets of hard—working british families. it presents the biggest net cut to personal taxes in over a quarter of a century. we all know you want to be a tax—cutting chancellor, but your income tax cut doesnt come in for two years and you are raising the national insurance threshold. nati...

Delivering our promise to £3000. delivering our promise to fully equalise the income tax threshold, and not incrementally over many years, but in one go, this year. from thisjuly, people will be able to earn £12,570 a year without paying a single penny of income tax or national insurance! that is a £6 billion personal tax cut for 30 million people across the united kingdom. a tax cut for employees worth over £330 a year. the largest increase in a basic rate threshold ever and the largest sin...

That we _ right response to putins is to say that we as — right response to putins is to say that we as well have the ability to defend _ that we as well have the ability to defend ourselves, defend our allies, defend _ defend ourselves, defend our allies, defend our— defend ourselves, defend our allies, defend our interests and a russia crosses _ defend our interests and a russia crosses that threshold things are going _ crosses that threshold things are going to — crosses that threshold ...

Why white rid of the national insurance contributions, think of a haptic oaky but why notjust get rid of them and it was the wrong thing to do? in of them and it was the wrong thing to do? . . , of them and it was the wrong thing to do? . ._ ., ., of them and it was the wrong thing todo? . .,. , ., to do? in a way to an end stick date and the measures _ to do? in a way to an end stick date and the measures he _ to do? in a way to an end stick date and the measures he announced, i to do? in a way...

Demand from the global economy reopening, lots of people have to get their goods around, they need petrol and the economic growth is slowing down from that bounce back and we have now got growth lower thanit and we have now got growth lower than it used to be, nevertheless the chancellor is getting more tax partly because of inflation, like vat, you get more of it if inflation goes up. what can he actually do to help families with the cost of living crisis? there are a few measures he will consi...

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I think the biggest thing were going to get out of this nato meeting is what is the threshold. what is the threshold by which nato can say, all right, thats it. yet no more. we cannot take this. we dont know what that threshold is. we may be approaching it in some of these cities like mariupol. the other is like cyber attacks and what it means if a nato country is attacked by russia. we know how vague that is. is that an attack on one, an attack on all? those are things that i think ironed out b...