17 Oct 2024

UK: Assisted dying bill, Taylor Swift escort row, tax hike

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 17 October 2024
(FILES) US singer Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Paris La Defense Arena as part of her The Eras Tour, in Nanterre, north-western France, on May 9, 2024. Three shows in Vienna by the American mega-star have been cancelled after Austria arrested a man in connection with an Islamist attack plot, the organisers said on August 8, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE --

Taylor Swift's London concerts have had a long tail in the political realm. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about the introduction to Parliament today of a bill on assisted dying, the continuing row over the use of a police escort for Taylor Swift's London concerts and which Cabinet members failed to declare free tickets and is the Chancellor trying to soften Britons up for tax increase ahead of her first Budget in two weeks?

Matthew also looks at how the discovery of a sock on Everest belonging to Andrew Irvine has renewed interest in who may have reached the summit first. 

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