Search results for ‘Budget’
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FactCheck: the Conservative manifesto 2024
Three Conservative pledges – FactChecked.
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FactCheck: Labour’s claim the Conservatives would spend £71bn on policies
FactCheck takes a look.
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‘Keir Starmer has been rumbled’ over tax, says Economic Secretary to the Treasury
We’re joined from Westminster by Bim Afolami, who is Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
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FactCheck: the SNP’s target to build 110,000 affordable homes in Scotland
The SNP promised to build 110,000 affordable homes by 2032. But is it on track to meet this target? FactCheck takes a look.
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Labour’s Angela Rayner will face no further police action
Greater Manchester Police said they would take no further action against the party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner over the sale of her council house in Stockport nine years ago.
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FactCheck: the Conservatives’ and Labour’s records on legal migration
Net migration is down 10 per cent – but still near a record high.
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Election 2024: the big economic challenges facing the next government
We look at the key economic questions that will dominate all parties during the general election campaign.
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‘Russian aggressions have never pushed Georgia to deviate from its own path’, says Georgian President
We spoke to the Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili. We started by asking her what happens next if the government overrules her veto of their “foreign influence” bill.
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‘Child poverty has not fallen since Tories came in’, says Gordon Brown
Labour’s last prime minister, Gordon Brown, has warned that food banks are increasingly taking over from the welfare state and called for urgent action by the current government.
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FactCheck: Our analysis finds one in nine maternity services ‘double downgraded’ since 2022
We’ve found that nearly half of maternity services received a rating of ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’.
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‘I feel completely ignored’: the human impact of respite care costs
Local councils in England face the voters tomorrow with many struggling to stay afloat.
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Ukraine Russia: is the West ready to go to war? – The Political Fourcast
As the PM ramps up defence spending, the Conservative’s James Heappey and Labour’s Baroness Anderson join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss whether British troops could end up fighting Putin’s war.
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How does the UK defence spending boost add up?
It’s highly unusual for a prime minister to make such a major spending pledge outside a budget, so let’s take a closer look at it.
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FactCheck: does Labour’s plan to raise £5bn make sense?
Labour has announced a new pledge to raise £5.1 billion per year by the end of its first five years in office if it wins the next election.
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Glen Rosa Ferry: 3,000 ton ship finally takes off six years behind schedule
There were scenes of jubilation on the banks of the Clyde today, as 3,000 tonnes-worth of ferry finally took to the water, albeit six years behind schedule and an estimated four times over budget.