Completely agree. Jasmin Dyer is one of the most talented and hard working people it has been my privilege to work with BBC Newsnight. Huge congratulations on your great new adventure

Thank you so much Christine Farquharson for explaining the challenges around the government’s childcare reforms to BBC Newsnight audience. Brilliant mastery of the details

“We've got a really good offer that will really help working parents”

Speaking to Nicholas Watt, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says she is “confident” in the steps the government has taken to deliver its phased plan for 30 hours free childcare

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“This is Liz Truss all over again”

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson tells Nicholas Watt the government’s 30 hours free childcare plan “risk[s] crashing the childcare system just as they crashed the economy under Liz Truss”

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Prolonged banging of desks and cheers as Rishi Sunak arrives for 1922 meeting

This is a remarkable piece by my truly remarkable friend. The response of Andrew Liddle to his cancer diagnosis at 35? To pen a beautiful piece about how scary it is but also how life affirming it is

Naturally before going on BBC Newsnight I verified these internal Department for Science, Innovation and Technology documents released under Freedom of Information about Michelle Donelan MP intervention. Government source told me these sorts of discussions remain confidential. But these were released under FOI

'It was, as one of the Chancellor’s close allies told me, a highly political Budget designed to establish the framework of the general election.”

Nicholas Watt says today’s Budget suggests the Tories are heading towards a classic tax and spend election campaign.

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Given that NICs forecast to raise £172.3bn in 2023-24 (or 16.3% of all tax receipts, figures which will have come down after the NICs cuts) + given @jeremy_hunt caveats about not increasing borrowing and not compromising public services - may take some to realise his ambition

So @jeremy_hunt’s pledge to “end the unfairness” of double taxation looks like a long term ambition. Signalled in the budget - then placed in a Conservative general election manifesto? No doubt Rishi Sunak would love to run a traditional tax cuts v spending campaign with Labour