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Speaker, my honourable friend has long championed for this and rightly so, which is why i was pleased the chancellor to increase our defence budget by 24 billion to lima million pounds. recently he added a further £5 billion of the next two years to both strengthen our nuclear enterprise and rebuild stockpiles, which i know he has been interested in the past. and we outlined an ambition to increase defence spending to 2.5%. we are on track to get to 2.25 in the next couple years at which point we will take stock of where we are economically and fiscally. but threats against the country are in...

Credit scores. and a decrease in fees for people with lower credit scores. that does not mean that people who have lower credit scores will have less in fees. it's just an adjustment here. and these apply to loans that are backed by freddie mac and fannie mae. let me show you what this looks like. if you put down a 20% down payment, the old fee was 3% of the low. if you had a 640 credit score, which is on the lower side. on the new standards, the new fee is going to be 2.25%. if you have a higher credit score of around 740, the old fee was 0.5% of the loan. now it's almost 0.9%. so this is jus...

The president has come in. >> harris: i want to give you a chance to explain what you mean by collapse. inflation was at about 1.7%. gasoline under $2.25 at that point. i think it was closer to $2. there were a lot of things that were cooking along. only 90 days away from the lowest unemployment numbers for blacks in this country in 50 years. so i do want to set the scene. go ahead. >> sure. but keep in mind we had hundreds of thousands of people dying. millions of people locked down at home. nobody traveling so gas prices were going even lower, and the president came in and put us on a path t...

80 years on, they still feel they want answers. the royal navy said the creation of a mass unmarked grave would run counter to admiralty policy on the burial of wartime casualties, but mary says she won't stop asking questions. well, it makes me very sad, and 80 years is a long time, and by the time 100 years comes i won't be here, so i've got a limited time to find these men. dame mary richardson, ending that report, from hugh pym. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. hello, clive. a decent deal of weather today. most of us had lots of sunshine alone and the sunny spot was gla...

Editor and pauljohnson hasjoined editor and pauljohnson has joined us editor and pauljohnson hasjoined us the director of the institute for fiscal studies. we will come to you in a moment. with can announce and confirm much of what we had expected in those key measures from jeremy hunt. inflation, to fall to 2.9% by the end of this year. confirmation of that rise, in corporation tax, from 19—25%, free childcare for working parents extended and the energy price guarantee maintained for another three months at £22500. the pension lifetime allowance has been abolished. defence spending increas...