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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament for BBC Radio 4 for Wednesday, the 9th of July, where Kemi Badernock reckons more taxes are on the horizon.

Millions of our poorest pensioners face being dragged into income tax

for the first time ever.

Bart Sekeir Stama says

he won't write the budget now.

We will stick to our manifesto commitments.

We will stick to our fiscal rules.

Also on this programme,

an MP shares a personal story

about trying to live on sickness benefits.

My confidence plummeted, the feelings of failure, rejection, feeling useless at not being able to sustain myself, we're all consuming.

Nobody chooses this life.

And it may be behind time and over budget, but the boss of HS2 says it will be a success.

Birmingham and London will become two conurbations joined together in economic union and that

will be growth. But first, the Conservative leader has accused the Prime Minister of flirting

with the idea of a wealth tax. Last week, facing a rebellion from dozens of his own backbenchers,

Kiyah Stama scrapped a central part of his welfare plans

and promised not to make changes to the disability benefit PIP

until after a review.

The opposition says that and other U-turns have left the government

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