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In tonight's 5pm briefing Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to slash National Insurance by another 2p in a Budget to salvage the Tories’ poll hopes, a policewoman has been exposed dragging a homeless man along the ground and stamping on his stomach, and the mothers of Israel’s youngest female hostages have pleaded from their daughters’ bedrooms for negotiators to ‘bring back our girls’...


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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT

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Tomorrow's news today

• Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver the 2024 Spring Budget

• Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore are set to appear at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards



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