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As election results continue to come in, @EvanHD brings you an extended edition of PM to discuss all the big questions, with guests from across politics.
Listen on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds from 16:30 🔊
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The #GeneralElection2024 coverage continues on Radio 4 with extended @BBCr4today until midday where @BBCWorldatOne runs until 2pm followed by @BBCPM at 5pm.
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"We will provide eligible film studios in England with a 40% relief on their gross business rates until 2034"
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says at the current rate of growth, UK studio space will be "second only to Hollywood" by next year
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says government's childcare plan will mean "an extra 60,000 parents enter the workforce in the next four years"
The claim comes as the Chancellor sets out the Budget
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt introduces "brand new British ISA"
He says it will allow an extra £5,000 annual investment for investments in UK equity "with all tax advantages of other ISAs"
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"We have turned the corner on inflation, we will soon turn corner on growth"
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt explains that since 2010, the UK has outperformed Germany, France and Italy
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says fuel duty will remain at its current rate and will be frozen for the next 12 months
He will also "maintain the 5p cut” on fuel duty which was due to end this month
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"We value our hospitality industry and are backing the great British pub"
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces alcohol duty freeze until next year as Budget plans revealed
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"Because of the progress we've made... we can now help families... with permanent cuts in taxation"
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says "Conservatives know lower taxes mean higher growth" as he begins to outline Budget plans
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The UNRWA aid agency could stop operating in Gaza by March if funding cuts aren't reversed.
Former UN Development Programme boss and ex-PM Helen Clark told #BBCWATO the UK's decision to suspend funding because 12 staff are accused of helping Hamas is "totally disproportionate".
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"I've never seen anything like it in many years living bythe Lough" - we've been out on the water to see the scale of damage from blue-green algae in the UK's largest lake, Lough Neagh- coming up on BBC News at One, @bbc5live with @TVNaga01, and The World At One on @BBCRadio4.
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“It was very important for him not to give people an easy ride. But he did basically pick people he liked, to entertain”
Sir Michael Palin remembers Michael Parkinson who’s died at the age of 88
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"Hail, Caesar!"
On #BBCBH Sir Derek Jacobi and Brian Blessed discuss the I, Claudius series as it returns to BBC 4
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Just heard we have the BBC DG Tim Davie live in #BBCWATO. Do listen in at one!
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Terrific to review Sunday papers on #BroadcastingHouse with @tweeter_anita @realzoestrimpel & @alethaadu - #Russia dominates front pages but lots of interesting/important stories inside @BBCRadio4
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Look, no hands!
@JonnyDymond tries out hands-free driving on the M40 on this week's The World This Weekend
The Royal College of Nursing on going back on strike
And the latest on Sudan where the army and paramilitaries are fighting for control
Not necessarily in that order
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Boris Johnson's been warned he risks turning himself into a "pound shop Nigel Farage" by voting against the Stormont Brake.
Fellow MP Jacob Rees Mogg sees that as a compliment: "I wouldn't be so sniffy about a valuable high street shop."
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Coming up on the World At One:
+ The PM's in Northern Ireland selling the Protocol deal
+ The deal allows the UK to rejoin the Horizon research programme. Sir Paul Nurse will be in the studio
+ Harvard's Dr Robert Waldinger reveals the key to a long, happy & healthy life 👇
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What's it like living in a world of alternative reality, where Russian state media & many Russians tell you “Russia didn’t invade Ukraine” & “Russia never starts wars”? Where everything's upside down? I’ve written this piece Parallel Reality to show how I feel. @BBCRadio4 #bbcbh