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Autumn Statement: Victoria Derbyshire’s interview with Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Glen
As part of the Autumn Statement yesterday Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced £55 billion in tax rises and a squeeze in public spending that he said would tackle spiralling inflation.
Hunt has warned families face “real challenges”, as government forecasters predict the biggest drop in living standards since records began.
The Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent economic forecaster, says household income will fall by 7% over the next 18 months.
The chancellor said the announcements in his Autumn Statement would help tame inflation which he said had caused the drop in living standards. But Labour said fairer choices about tax could have been made.
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves described the emergency budget measures as “an invoice for the economic carnage” created by the policies of former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Newsnight’s Victoria Derbyshire spoke to Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Glen on the day of the statement, and started by asking him why the government is raising taxes now that the UK is in a recession.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
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@lindacurrie8817
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Victoria is a great journalist she stands for no nonsense as in "Sorry I have to stop you there" And if they do not answer she persists. We need more journalist to take a page from her book. Brilliant
@kaederukawa1123
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
It's never Brexit
@bigpants6121
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Glen has had his arse spanked . He wants growth as millions go under!
@DaChaGee
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
He said they realised growth is important. Are you telling me that for the past 12 years the Tory government didn't know that growing the economy was important!?
@DaChaGee
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
They really think we're stupid. The corrupt Tories have fucked the UK!
@jimthompson9370
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Vic hates men. She hates straight, white, right-wing men most of all. I bet she looked forward to this one.
@wetwhistlinwillyjohnson5743
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Garbage
@loreleitrageser3904
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
😊 p͎r͎o͎m͎o͎s͎m͎
@lw1zfog
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Freemasonic City of London Crown Corporation crime syndicate in action
@dylangriso654
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
You’d think after a thousand years the so called people in power they would of got it sussed by now, scumbags.
@jgnasher7048
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
You tories are finished pal.. Bring on the election.
@aleccap5946
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
In a nutshell, you pay more the rich and illegal migrants carry on as if nothing has changed
@peterwoan7159
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Stop giving money away, it not your money, it's the tax payers.
@gerryd7027
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
The scum are making the UK 🇬🇧 so broke that when they get their ass kicked out of office their opposition will never be able to fix it, and they will sit in their mansions and laugh their heads off. Vile people. !!!!!
@daviddalby9699
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Always the same its going to tuff . Its the poor .that feel the grip you have inflickted . Coorks in siuts . Its obviuse yo can get it right . BS As ALWAYS
@colingarner6175
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
This woman is as bad as most other BBC left wing morons 😢😢😢
@Stef23441
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Covid , war , now the world is a disaster ! Proves these rich folk in charge clearly not doing there jobs properly but knowone is going to do anything about it so that’s why they will all the more take advantage of the public
@reeling-in
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Lip-service from the BBC, yet again. If the BBC were that bothered about human rights at the World Cup, they would not show the football, but they will! The BBC have their own agenda, it's called the BBC!
@nitinmaheshwari727
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Well done John Glen. She kept interrupting you but you made your points well 👍
@zetectic7968
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Glenn is useless. His career comes first, party loyalty 2nd and reality in last place.
@ec7696
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Look how happy these thieves and conmen are, the only people they need to fool are their senile voters. They’ve looked after their millionaire, billionaire, corporate and especially their fossil fuel donors, the rest of us are screwed again. If any of these f wits says ‘difficult decisions’ again I will go mental. It’s very simple windfall tax with no deliberate loop holes.
@orsomebricks6635
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Is Trickle Down a hill in Kent?
@theworldaccordingto4555
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Boom and Bust: Boom for the wealthy elite, Bust for the peasants.
@AndyNightingale
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
This man is A MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT and yet he still doesn't know, that the country at war with Russia is UKRAINE …not "The Ukraine".
This Conservative Government is a collection of DELUDED MORONS who don't know their backsides from their elbows;
THEY BELONG IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, BEFORE THEY DO ANY MORE DAMAGE TO THE POPULATION OF THE UK; OR TO THE FABRIC OF THE COUNTRY..!!
They have had a long term plan, to ransack this country, since the 1970s.
…and look at the damage they have done..!!
Truss and Kwarteng were so arrogant, that they thought they could get away with DAYLIGHT ROBBERY..!!
That is to say nothing of Covid and fraudulent Conservative Covid contracts (Which cost £3.5 BILLION).
That is to say nothing of David Cameron SLASHING health and safety; which led to the Lakanal and Grenfell Tower block fires!
That is to say nothing of them LYING TO THE QUEEN to get permission to PROROGUE PARLIAMENT; which they did to avoid answering for themselves; and losing votes in Parliament.
That is to say nothing of Partygate; or the many times Boris tried to send us back to work, which killed THOUSANDS MORE PEOPLE with Covid, every time.
National assets sold off.
Public Services hijacked by private companies.
The NHS in tatters.
That is off the top of my head. The full list is FAR LONGER..!!
The FULL LIST OF CHARGES going back to 1979 should be on everyone's lips.
@pauldean8638
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Russia had covid and the worlds worst sanctions and it grows , it more than halved its interest rates. i understand our government is a joke , russia didn’t ruin us o no that’s the circus ruining us
@pauldean8638
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Our government is more a threat to us than russia would ever be , what brit signed up for economic ruin and 6 k heating bills
@artfuldodger9312
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Cancelling the "HS2" vanity project is all that has to be done in order to revive the economy to its previous state. It will take years to construct, and after it is finished, no one will use it anyway. Reduce spending on help to other countries; already, our contributions are simply too high. It is the responsibility of the government to cut waste. Recent reports have shown that our government has thrown away 17 billion. There you have it; there is no requirement to impose further tax burdens on the working class.
@likklej8
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Stop sending our tax money to Ukraine and we’re paying to train their soldiers in our country which is disgusting Can’t you understand Ukraine is not our problem
@coalville1234
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Stop voting. Break the system. It’s not working.
@jamiesworld1690
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Its all their fault we are poor
@headboy
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
These clueless bubble living elites are so cold and callous towards the ordinary people.. "we've taken tough decisions" seems to be only answer they have as if it justifies to grind people into the dirt. They have no compassion, empathy or sympathy for the population that aren't a part of their world. They care nothing for us. The gap gets wider, it's us and them, some call it the great reset.
@woodnugget1301
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
It’s time to unite the people and eradicate this vermin that reside in those evil ivory towers this filthy greedy scum has to go for good worldwide freedom is ours it’s non negotiable. Guy Fawkes Robin Hood Enoch Powell
@3rodox
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Thanks tory voters. Look at where you've dragged us down to. Joke of a country
@jillhornby5604
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
TAX the rich, stop making poor people pay the price for YOUR mistakes. Ask sunak to give up some of his 730 million wealth, or ask Mrs Sunak why she takes money from business in PUTINS Russia.
@AndyUK-Corrival
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Never seen this guy before… but he is spouting the same Tory script…
@reeling-in
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
The BBC are making a fortune out of the World Cup and the deaths of foreign labour!
@glenstevenson9274
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
This won't solve it
@chazsach6594
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Absolutely no mention of the £10million a DAY it costs the British taxpayer to keep the uninvited housed, warm and fed. Managed to swerve the question on the dingy diver invasion.
@TA-hn7fo
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
These people are criminals , they have no idea what there doing. There is a limit to this shit, enough is enough. They need to go. !!!!!!
@bobbeck5866
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
As long as we pay enormous salary's to CEO's of organization's owned by us, the taxpayers thousands of pounds for doling nothing other than line their own pockets we will all suffer. Also, if we look at the next salary increase in MP's salary's the increase will be more that the MP's expect an old age pensioner to live on.
@monkeyboy8424
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Fishy Rishi and his Tory government of "dishonesty, recklessness and irresponsibility at every level" with entrenched, unaccountable bullying, must be removed!
@pduction
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Look at the end of the day, it’s best for the richer mf’s and these lot can always talk the talk
@kynchan3332
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Freeze HS2, cancel climate policies, allow cheap energy through and a lot of the inflation problems will get better.
Drop the windfall tax on UK producers (in the North sea and on UK territory) to encourage more oil and gas production.
Don't make it a high tax economy or investors in business and business start up will be discouraged.
@johnvonhorn2942
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
So government spending has been way out of control since the Conservatives took office thirteen years ago and they must protect that "out of control" spending at any cost.
Mainly on Welfare and the NHS with the over 65's burning through 40% of the entire NHS budget and 45% of all welfare spending.
Then we had Covid where we all had our civil liberties taken away and the economy trashed with a government "burn" of around £350 billion. Turns out 11/12 of all Covid related deaths were the over 60's and 2/3 of those were the over 80's. Covid was never a threat to anyone under 60 in reasonable health.
And now the Conservatives want to make sure that the economy stays wrecked so we can keep the elderly going at everyone else's expense.
Sixth largest economy in the world and we were already at record levels of taxation (since the 1950's) before this budget and yet no one gets to benefit or enjoy that as we're all now so busy saving everything (none of which is our fault or even needs saving)
My God you're a nation of moronic failures that love to snatch defeat from the jaws of success every single time. Enjoy your failed state, fools.
Edit: And don't forget your mantra: "Immigration is great for the economy". You would have thought we'd be booming, having picked up eleven million since the turn of the millennium. Turns out all these "wonderful" economic migrants are actually costing us quite a few billion a year (around 3..11 depending on who you ask)
@soldierdjt
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Don’t like Victoria. Won’t watch! Bye
@chrisbrown3278
January 14, 2024 at 1:19 am
Tax the pharmaceutical companies