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Budget 2024: Starmer warns of ‘harsh fiscal reality’

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has given a<a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/budget-2024-keir-starmer-tax-rises-rachel-reeves-chancellor-b1190535.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> speech to prepare the ground for the Budget, saying Britain "must embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality".</a> Elsewhere in the Labour party, Mike Amesbury MP has been suspended after<a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mp-mike-amesbury-runcorn-punch-video-man-police-labour-suspended-b1190464.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CCTV appears to show him repeatedly punching a man</a>.  Our Political Editor, Nicholas Cecil, shared his insight.  In part two, we have a special preview of The Standard’s series on London’s hidden gems. In this episode we get an exclusive peek inside the <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/attractions/tfl-lost-property-office-london-hidden-gem-b1190214.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Transport for London’s lost property office</a>, and the weird and wonderful things commuters have left behind.  Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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