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A tax cut for Britain's top earners in George Osborne's Budget. Down 5p | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
in the pound from next year. The Chancellor says the riches will pay | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
five times as much in other taxes. Millions will see a big rise in the | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
amount they can earn before paying tax. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Together, the British people will share in the effort and share the | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
rewards. This country borrowed its way into trouble, now we're going | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
to earn our way out. I commend the Budget to the House. It is a | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
millionaire's Budget, that squeezes the middle. Wrong choices, wrong | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
priorities. Wrong values. Out of touch, same old Tories. Among the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
loses - millions of pensioners facing a squeeze on their | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
retirement allowances. I don't think it's fair really because | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
pensioners have paid all their life into the tax system. They seem to | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
get penallised and left behind. From changes in child benefit to a | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
drop in corporation tax, we'll have all the details. Also - a flight to | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
freedom, the British woman released by her Somali kidnappers, with a | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
message to her son. I don't know how he secured my release, but he | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
did. I'm really happy. I can't wait to see him. French police corner | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
the prime suspect in the Jewish school shooting. He fired back when | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
they tried to arrest him. And the tookor who first treated | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Fabrice Muamba tells us the player was effectively dead for more than | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
an hour. And I'll be here with Sportsday | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
later in the hour on the BBC News channel as Tevez looked set to end | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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his exile against the first team Good evening. Welcome to the BBC's | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
News at Six. George Osborne has delivered what he's called a Budget | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
for working families. Millions will benefit from changes to the tax | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
system and the richest people in Britain will be better off. From | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
next year, they will pay 5p in the pound less in tax. The Labour | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
leader attacked the Chancellor, saying he had produced a | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
millionaire's Budget. Among today's losers are pensions, millions of | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
whom will -- pensioners, millions of whom will end up with less than | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
they expected. There was the 50p rate cut. A significant allowance | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
in the tax free allowance. Many families now will keep part of | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
their child benefit. We'll have all the details and reaction. Our | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
political editor has our first report tonight. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
It's a small box, it contained few surprises, but it has sparked a big | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
debate. In a time of austerity, who should pay less tax and who should | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
pay more? George Osborne left Downing Street this morning | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
preparing to give with one hand and take with another. There was only | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
one thing to ask. Are the rich going to pay their fair share, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Chancellor? He hoped it would satisfy his Liberal Democrats | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
colleagues and the country too, as he prepared to announce a tax cut | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
for those at the top. In the Commons he told MPs his changes | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
were fair and the wealthy would pay their share. This Budget rewards | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
work. Britain is going to earn its way in the world. There is no other | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
road to recovery. Maybe, but it was also a Budget | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
that cut the top rate of tax from 50p-45p for those earning more than | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
�150,000. No Chancellor can justify a tax | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
rate that damages our economy and raises next to nothing. It is as | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
simple as that. Labour MPs booed that, but the Chancellor had his | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
answer. He was raising more than �9,000 the money most of us can | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
earn before starting to pay tax. Taking another 800,000 people out | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
of tax all together. Every working person on low or | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
middle incomes will benefit. Millions... They loved that. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
Particularly Lib Dems who have long argued for it. Millions of working | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
people will be �220 better off every year. For hard-pressed | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
families there was no freeze on fuel duty, but a relief on child | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
benefit. Those earning just over �42 will now keep it. Those earning | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
over �50,000 will lose some and those over �60,000 all of it. | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
750,000 families will keep some or all of their child benefit. 90% of | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
all families will remain eligible for child benefit. Another 1p cut | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
in corporation tax. All these tax cuts will cost money and someone | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
had to pay. Pensioners will see their tax | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
allowance frozen. The average existing pensioner losing �63 a | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
year. I will freeze the cash value of the allowance. This will protect | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the existing level of allowance pensioners have, while introducing | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
a new single personal allowance for all. It is a major simplification. | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
It saves money. No pensioner will lose in cash terms. There was no | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
new mansion tax, but... I reward tax evasion and indeed aggressive | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
tax avoidance as morally repugnant. So he said as well as raising stamp | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
duty to 7% for houses worth more than �2 million, he could cap tax | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
relief for the wealthy. He claimed overall the rich would pay more. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
From midnight tonight, we will introduce a new stamp duty land tax | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
rate of 7% on properties worth more than �2 million. In anticipation of | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, the Chancellor | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
said he would cut the emergency reserve put aside for the conflict | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
by �2.5 billion over the next three years to help pay for his tax cuts. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Together, the British people will share in the effort and share the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
rewards. This country borrowed its way into trouble, now we're going | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
to earn our way out. I commend the Budget to the House. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
For Labour, there was only one question - why should the rich get | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
a tax cut? The Chancellor spoke for an hour. One of his phrases was | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
missing - there was one thing he didn't say. Today, marks the end of | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
we're all in it together. Hands up in the Cabinet if you're | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
going to benefit from the income tax cut. Come on! Ed Miliband said | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
this was the wrong priority at the wrong time. Tax credits cut, child | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
benefit taken away, fuel duty rising. What has he chosen to make | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
his priority - for Britain's millionaires a massive income tax | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
cut, each and every year. Just who will win and who will lose from | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
this gambit may take time to work out. Some were already claiming the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Budget had failed. It has failed to deliver on growth | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
and on fairness. So the millionaires are being treated best. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
The poorest, middle earners are squeezed the most. The biggest | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
concern for Wales is there is a clear framework to introduce | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
regional pay. That will institutional Wales and the north- | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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west and south-west of England as Well, let's take a look at some | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
other measures announced today; for business and industry there'll be a | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
package worth �3 billion to support new drilling for oil and gas in the | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
In the public sector, the Chancellor has promised to press | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
ahead with regional pay rates for civil servants. There are no new | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
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changes to fuel duty. It will go up D So, with household budgets under | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
pressure, how will the measures effect households? To get some | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
views our correspondent has pent the day in Northallerton, in North | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
Yorkshire. There is no other road to recovery.... As the Chancellor | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
delivered his Budget today, nobody seemed too bothered in this shop in | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Northallerton high street, even though what he was saying affected | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
most of the people outside. Was he coming up smelling of flowers by | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
raising the personal tax allowance for millions of people? I think | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
it's about time we had some incentives to work hard in this | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
country. I don't really think it will make much difference to be | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
honest. What about specifics? Sophie Hills is a 23-year-old | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
graduate, what works part-time in local shops. | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
She earns less than �10,000 a year. She could find herself lifted out | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
of the tax system all together. Extra money is always good. It | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
allows me to work a couple more hours without worrying about that | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
coming off in tax, for example. Extra money, I can put it towards | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
things I want, maybe pay off some debts. Not everyone is happy. Cliff | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
and Edna today found out their tax- free allowance will be frozen. The | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Government says it is about simplifying the tax system. They | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
are not sure. I don't think it is fair because pensioners have paid | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
all their life into the tax system and they seem to get penallised and | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
left behind. I don't think we should pay tax, to be honest with | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
you. Charles Barker is the boss of an independent department store in | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
the town. He is a 50% tax rate payer, but says cutting the rate | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
was not a priority for him. Personally any reduction is welcome. | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
What is much more important is that the lower threshold is raised. That | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
will put more money into people's pockets. From our point of view it | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
will be more people through the doors with more to spend. Lisa is a | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
40% rate taxpayer. Until today the mum of one stood to lose all her | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
child benefit. After today's benefit she will keep some of it. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
She is still not happy. I don't think it is fair that my neighbours | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
could both have a joint income of �98,000 and could both bring in the | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
full child benefit, where as me as one tax earner above the threshold | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
will have that money taken from them. It is not a fair system. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Which side of the Chancellor have you seen today? That depends on | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
your income, interests and ideology. Well, as we have heard, today's | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
winners include some parents who stood to lose child benefit and | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
will now keep it. Among the louzers, although not all, some -- losers, | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
although not all, some pensioners. With Budgets there are people who | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
gain and others who get hit harder. A key Budget move involved | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
increasing the tax allowance. The winners are basic rate taxpayers | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
under 65, they will be �350 a year better off. There are losers too. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
The over 60s have a higher allowance. Around four million | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
taxpayer pensioners will be affected because their tax-free | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
allowance will be frozen. Pensioners have not been badly hit | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
in sense of losing real money. Their expectations for the future | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
will be managed. They will not get as such in terms of tax-free | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
allowances going forwards. A key part was on the wealthy. There'll | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
be a crackdown on avoidance, which should cover the top rate of income | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
tax. The Chancellor said wealthier taxpayers found ways around paying | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
the 50p rate and it was harming Britain's reputation as a place to | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
do business. This will definitely pay off. You only have to go to | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
another part of the world and look at Britain from a distance and see | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
how damaging 50p tax rate was to doing business in the UK and from | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
the UK. This will more than pay for itself. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Union leaders were angered by the tax break for the richest in | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
society. We get it reduce tods 45p because no-one was paying it. What | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
we should do is make sure they pay it, instead of saying we will | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
reduce it because they are not paying it. That is ridiculous. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
Convo ver thal plans to remove -- controversial plans to remove child | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
benefit from some families have been amended. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
The threshold will be �50,000, after which families lose some | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
benefit. From then on �1 will be lost for every �100 earned. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Households with someone on more than �60,000 will lose all the | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
benefit. Most parents are going to welcome this. It is a big change | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
for many families. I think there is some unfairness in the system. You | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
could earn �100,000 as a couple and receive it and earn �60,000 as one | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
person working and that does seem unfair. The Chancellor said it | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
would be a Budget for working households. Millions might agree | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
with that. A good many pensioners might see it differently. Let's get | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
some reaction from Robert Peston. We have heard a lot about what it | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
will mean for families - what about business? Well the business leaders | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
to whom I have spoken love this Budget. I is easy to see why. The | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
corporation tax is being cut by another 1% on top of the 1% which | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
was scheduled to happen on April 6th. That takes the corporate tax | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
rate down to 24%, which is one of the lowest raitds within the | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
developed world and the -- rates within the developed world. And the | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Chancellor sent a signal he would like to see rates reduced to 20%. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Also,s I am sure you know, business leaders didn't like the 50p income | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
tax rate. So, they are delighted it is going down to 45p in the pound. | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Delighted because of course it benefits them and they say it will | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
make it easier to retain the sort of talent they need in the UK. | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
But, the Government will now be looking to business to respond. If | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
you look at the forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
one of the things that is striking is that businesses haven't been | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
investing as much as the economy needs for it to recover. So the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Chancellor will now want to see business, in a sense repaying | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
generosity, by investing more and hiring more people. | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
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Let's get the thoughts of our political editor, Nick Robinson - | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
what about the politics of all of this? The Chancellor is desperate | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
that people should focus on the tax cut for 23 million ordinary people, | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
that those who thought they were going to lose their child benefit | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
will tonight celebrate by saying they are not. But of course he | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
knows that the risk is that it will be seen as a budget for | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
millionaires. Why would someone who actually coined the phrase, we are | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
all in it together, take that huge political risk? There have been | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
plenty of theories, some people say he is rewarding his friends or | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
playing politics, but there is another theory, that he actually | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
believes in it. In other words, that George Osborne believes you do | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
not get the economy going with a scheme hear what an initiative | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
there, what happens is, you make cuts to taxes for businesses and | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
business people, who then conclude that Britain is the place to create | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
jobs and wealth. He believes that, but with equal passion, the Labour | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Party believes that he has, in one decision, thrown away the claim | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
that the Conservative Party has changed and damaged the Liberal | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Democrats, too. They will remind people that while some millionaires | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
are getting a big tax cut, and there are pensioners worried about | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
tax allowances tonight, and people losing their tax credits, Ed | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Miliband is a gambler as well. So, who, between these two gamblers, | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
George Osborne and Ed Miliband, is right? Forgive me, George, I am not | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
confident enough to put a bet on it. For everything you need to know | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
about the Budget, including our Budget calculator, you can go to | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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our website. Our main headline - the Chancellor has announced a tax | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
cut for Britain's top earners and a big increase in the mouth people | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
can earn before paying tax. Coming up - the hospital doctor who ran | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
onto the pitch to save Fabrice Muamba describes the crucial | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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A British woman kidnapped in can you last September by a Somali gang | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
who killed her husband has been freed. It is understood a ransom | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
was paid by a private security firm working for the family. Tonight, | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Judith Tebbutt is recovering in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, from where | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
our correspondent Will Ross reports. The dramatic rescue from Somalia, | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
as a security official takes Judith Tebbutt away to freedom. But | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
emotions are mixed. Minutes earlier, she held back the tears as she | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
spoke of her husband's death. not know he had died until about I | :19:02. | :19:11. | |
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think it was two weeks, two weeks from my capture. I just assumed he | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
was alive, but then my son told me he had died. The terrifying ordeal | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
began last September, at this isolated, tranquil resort on the | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Kenyan coast. In the middle of the night, an armoured gang burst into | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
the room, shots were fired, the gunmen bundled Judith on to a | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
speedboat and headed to Somalia. Her husband was left behind and | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
died from his injuries. Just before her flight out of Somalia, Judith | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
Tebbutt spoke to the man who helped raise them and some, her own son. | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
OK, Oliver! Mother and son have now been reunited in Kenya. On arriving | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
here in Nairobi, officials from the British high commission stepped in | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
to take care of Judith Tebbutt. The involvement of the British | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Government in trying to get her released had been minimal, because | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
it opposes the idea of paying ransoms. Two people who know all | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
about the horror of captivity in Somalia and the joy of being set | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
free are Paul and Rachel Chandler. The process of release, you really | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
get an adrenalin high, it is absolutely fantastic to realise | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
you're free. As Judith Tebbutt puts it, now is the time to pick up the | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
pieces and move on. The Ministry of Defence has announced that a | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
soldier from the 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment has been killed in | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Afghanistan. The soldier died in an explosion in Helmand province. His | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
family have been informed. The prime suspect in the killing of | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
seven people in France is surrounded by a leaked police | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
commandos tonight. Shots have been fired at the house in Toulouse | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
where negotiators have spent the day trying to persuade the man to | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
give himself up. Our correspondent sent this report. They swooped in | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
the early hours of the morning. Intelligence gathered in the | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
biggest manhunt France has known led them to an apartment in this | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
quiet residential street. Inside was the gunman responsible for | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
seven murders. His name is Mohammed Merah, a 24 yet French citizen who | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
was arrested in Afghanistan and is known to the intelligence services. | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
As they tried to force their way into the flat, there was an | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
exchange of fire in which two policemen were shot and injured. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
The gunman's brother was arrested in a separate operation. His mother | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
was brought to the scene to try to talk him out. We have no spoken to | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
the man who yesterday afternoon handed police their key piece of | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
information. 10 days ago, Mohammed Merah came to this Yamaha franchise | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
to find out how to disable the tracking device on his powerful | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
scooter, and how he could dismantle it to respray it. This man has | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
known the teenager since he was a teenager. He seemed a normal kid, a | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
bit more unruly than others, and he did have a criminal record, but | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
there was nothing that made me think he was capable of such | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
atrocious acts. The description of the repainted bike which was | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
spotted at the scene reminded the bike dealer of the previous | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
conversation, and immediately he phoned the police. The President | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
has come to congratulate the police on a job well done, but serious | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
questions will be asked. How did unknown fundamentalist who had long | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
been under surveillance manage to kill seven people, and how did he | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
gather such an extraordinary arsenal of weapons, which was found | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
in the boot of his car, without raising the concerns of the | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
surveillance teams that were following him? For the families who | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
were today attending the funerals of the victims, in Israel and in | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
France, there will be anger and frustration that maybe this could | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
have been prevented. Two weeks ago, Mohammed Merah appeared in court | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
charged with a minor driving offence. It was the last | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
opportunity to stop the man who would soon become the most | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
dangerous killer in France. The doctors treating the footballer | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Fabrice Muamba have described his recovery has remarkable. The 23- | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
year-old had a cardiac arrest at Tottenham on Saturday, and is | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
currently being treated at the London chest Hospital. Help from a | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
cardiologist who ran on to the pitch from the stands may have made | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
all the difference, as Dan Roan reports. He is the pitch invader | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
who became a life saver. When Fabrice Muamba collapsed on | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Saturday, Spurs fan Andrew Deaner recognised all the signs of a | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
cardiac arrest. He joined in the effort to help the midfielder and | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
continued to treat him on the way to hospital. Today he told me what | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
prompted him to act. As soon as I saw them starting CPR, something | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
twitched in me. My brother said, go and help. We managed to persuade | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
one of the stewards we know, because we sit in the same place, | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
to take me down. One of the most promising young players in the | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
Premier League, Fabrice Muamba remains in intensive care, but he | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
has already had a conversation with the man who saved his life. I said, | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
I understand you're pretty good footballer. He said, I try. To have | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Yuma, when you have been through 80 minutes of CPR, is phenomenal. I | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
stood back and I had tears in my eyes. The plate of Muamba has | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
united football, with messages of support pouring in from all over | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
the world. The consultant now in charge of his treatment is | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
optimistic. OK it is fair to say that his outcome has been | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
extraordinary, and I'm sure that is because of the extraordinary care | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
he received at White Hart Lane and from the ambulance service. These | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
are still early days in his recovery, but doctors are adamant | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
that it was the medical attention he received on the pitch and on the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
way here which has proved crucial in giving Fabrice Muamba the chance | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
in giving Fabrice Muamba the chance of a normal life. Time for the | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
weather. Once again we have seen a big rise in temperatures today, in | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
the sunshine, but we are cutting back on cloud tonight, and with the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
clear skies, it will be a chilly night. There will be a touch of | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
frost forming in many spots by the morning. There will be a bit more | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
cloud across the north-west of Scotland and also the south-west of | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
:26:10. | :26:11. | ||
England, with a few showers here as well. But in between, clear skies. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Some of you will be waking up to a frost in the morning, but for many, | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
sunshine overhead. A little bit more cloud in north-west Scotland. | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
Most areas will be dry. Inland, just some fair weather cloud, with | :26:32. | :26:41. | |
long spells of sunshine. The major exception will be the eastern | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
coasts of England and Scotland, there will be a chilly wind coming | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
off the North Sea. This will limit to be just. Thursday night into | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
Friday, a few showers working through Western areas, which | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
continues into Friday. -- western areas. Friday will be a bright and | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
reasonably mild day. Into the weekend, high-pressure building. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
For many it will be another dry and For many it will be another dry and | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
More now on our top story, the Budget. The Chancellor has | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
announced changes to the tax threshold, the top rate of tax and | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
child benefit. Our economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, has been | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
tracking every move. She is outside Number 11 Downing Street at the | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
moment - where does this Budget leave the economy? It is | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
interesting, it is one of those budgets where you could say that | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
the big picture on growth and borrowing has not really changed | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
since George Osborne gave his last statement, and it has not really | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
changed since he sat down. All of those announcements, all of the tax | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
changes which we will be debating in the weeks to come, have not left | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
a very different situation, in the sense that at the end of this | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
Parliament, the balance between tax and spending could be very similar. | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
But that assumes that the tax and there -- Chancellor has not just | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
given a big tax cut to the rich. His judgment that the reduction in | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
the top rate will not cost him very much because wealthy people tend to | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
change their behaviour wealthy, that's one that people will be | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
debating, not just the politicians, but the experts as well. What we do | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
know is that the Office for Budget Responsibility thinks it is a | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
reasonable judgment, but an uncertain one. What we do know | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
about basic rate taxpayers is that they will be paying less tax next | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
year, and we know that many people will not be paying tax at all next | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
year as a result of these changes. We also know, Susie afraid, that we | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
are only halfway through a seven- year unprecedented period of | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
austerity tax rises and spending cuts, which will be affecting all | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
of us. And we found out today that it could involve another �10 | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
billion in welfare cuts after 2014. So, I guess, this debate about the | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
top rate will light up the political landscape for a long time | :29:05. | :29:10. |