hello, i m balvinder gill. i was a sub postmaster until i was wrongly suspended by the post office and made bankrupt. what does the promise to clear and compensate victims of the post office scandal mean for me? balvinder gill is here along with four other subpostmasters. they ll give their reaction live tonight to today s news that they will finally be cleared but will everyone be helped? the minister responsible tells us the budget for compensation is £1 billion. is he sorry it s taken so long? it s terrible, i apologise to all those people, i think over 60 people, and this has been going on for over 20 years, probably 2a, 25 years now. who does he think should pay the bill taxpayers or fujitsu, who delivered the faulty horizon software? plus tonight, the man who was employed by the post office to investigate horizon software and who found it faulty as far back as 2013. good evening. it feels like theft but it was more like systematic abuse the words of this po
prosecutions into thousand 15. if we are to make sure that escande like this can never happen again, we need to look at the way in which private prosecutions like these have been undertaken. any company can bring private prosecutions in this way. this is not a special power of the post office, i know my right honourable friend the lord chancellor wants to give this issue proper and thoughtful consideration and i am sure he will report to the house about this issue in due course. getting justice for the victims of this candle and ensuring that such a tragedy can never happen again is my highest priority as a minister and has been throughout my 15 months in office. when we talk about compensation, we have to remember that the lives of postmasters and their families caught up in this scandal have been changed forever. they face financial ruin, untold personal distress and a loss of reputation that no amount of financial compensation can fully restore. the government recognises h
fast track permitting for american energy ban federal regulations. that last point is what you may hear people describing as congress cannot pass regulations or legislation that adds to the deficit without making equivalent cuts elsewhere. to help us understand if this deal is any good we are joined now by someone who definitely understands how to read a budget, former entrepreneur and now of course 202024 presidential candidate. your reaction to this deal. i think it is a positive step forward. i think it is premature to celebrate too much, steve. funding for the irs. it was 80 billion came down to 78 billion instead. i think this was a victory, an incremental victory. this is just the first step of if the republicans take control of the white house and the senate what we will do is actually shut down the administrative state. that is really where the keys to the kingdom are. i will give kevin mccarthy credit for that but i don t want to celebrate too much. very funny yo
american energy ban federal regulations. that last point is what you may hear people describing as congress cannot pass regulations or legislation that adds to the deficit without making equivalent cuts elsewhere. to help us understand if this deal is any good we are joined now by someone who definitely understands how to read a budget, former entrepreneur and now of course 202024 presidential candidate. your reaction to this deal. i think it is a positive step forward. i think it is premature to celebrate too much, steve. funding for the irs. it was 80 billion came down to 78 billion instead. i think this was a victory, an incremental victory. this is just the first step of if the republicans take control of the white house and the senate what we will do is actually shut down the administrative state. that is really where the keys to the kingdom are. i will give kevin mccarthy credit for that but i don t want to celebrate too much. very funny you should say that because
the annual rate at which prices have been going up. inflation peaked at more than 10% last year, forcing the bank to raise interest rates aggressively to try and bring it under control. but it has since fallen sharply. and on wednesday, official figures showed it was down to 3.9% in november, the lowest rate in 2 years, and far lower than expected. that s raised hopes the bank of england will be soon able to start cutting the cost of borrowing, easing pressure on businesses and households. here s our economics editor, faisal islam. arp and now sharply down. over the past year, inflation in britain seemed like a runaway train. but it s now coming into land faster than expected. here and beyond. it has been a hard year or two for her with hundreds closing and some say prices are now stabilising. inflation is definitely killing us. the rise has gone up 15%. and behind you? us. the rise has gone up 1596. and behind you? up-and-down, i remember and behind you? up-and-down, i re