Watch ITV News at Ten live as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a tranche of measures aimed at sparking growth in the economy and filling the economic blackhole haunting the country’s finances.
The United States and Israel have agreed a peace plan that would see a technocratic government installed in Gaza and all hostages released, but there was no word on if Hamas agreed to the proposals. Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, US President Donald Trump released details of the plan on Monday. "I think we are beyond very close," Trump said at the start of a news conference. "We’re not quite finished. We have to get Hamas."
And more than 4.3 million children in the UK currently live in poverty, which is a third of all children. In the last five years, the number in food insecurity has doubled and those living in households unable to put the heating on has quadrupled. The Labour government says tackling this is high on its agenda and has enlisted a taskforce to come up with an ambitious child poverty strategy before the end of the year.
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