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Will save the average worker about £75. But is that the budget rabbit that conservative backbenchers were after . The answer plainly is no, but the truth is, there was simply not enough money to deliver the cut in income tax they had demanded. After the measures announced today, the Office For Budget Responsibility estimated the chancellor has just £8. 9 billion of headroom left, down from the 13 billion he had in the autumn statement. That the second smallest on record, yet the chancellor gave us a relatively optimistic view of the economy, after covid, a war in europe, and the damage inflicted on the british economy economy this, he said, was a budget for long term growth. Todays obr forecast also shows that we have made Good Progress on the Prime Ministers three economic priorities. Compared to when ....
A truce cant come soon enough. In rafah, another day of harrowing loss. Palestinians mourn for 20 members of the abu ansa family, killed in their beds by an israeli air strike, according to Hospital Officials and gazas civil defence. Among the dead, five month old twins, as old as the war. They were laid down gently with their relatives. Their mother spent ten years trying to have them and endured three rounds of ivf. Now all she can cradle is their baby clothes. I gave birth during the war, she says. It started on saturday, i gave birth next friday. I didnt get enough of them, i swear i didnt get enough. I have no one else, she says. They have gone with their father. We were sleeping, i swear. Israel continues to say it takes feasible precautions to lessen civilian harm. There were about 35 people in the house, says farouk abu ansa. Most were children. There were no fighters. The house collapsed on them, three or four storeys ....