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Why Reeves’s claims on the economy don’t stack up
Yahoo Finance· 2025-11-04 15:14
However, experts, including those at the Bank of England, believe that Donald Trump’s tariffs are more likely to depress prices in the UK than increase them.“Inflation has been too slow to come down, as supply chains continue to be volatile, meaning the costs of everyday essentials remain too high,” she declared on Tuesday.Reeves said keeping a lid on price rises will be a central theme on Nov 26. After all, inflation, at 3.8pc, is running at almost twice the Bank of England’s 2pc target.This is debt that i ...
Starmer Drops Flagship Welfare Reforms to Avoid Defeat
Bloomberg Television· 2025-07-02 06:22
Lizzy, how weakened is the UK Prime Minister now. Well, Tom Keir Starmer faced an ugly choice, didn't he, before this vote. On the one hand, he could have lost a key vote, as you say, and it's not one that he should have struggled to pass.Theoretically, given he's got this huge, historic 165 MP majority. His other choice, though, was to make a U-turn. And it was on this bill, this welfare reform bill, and particularly the contentious part was restricting benefit payments to some disabled people from next ye ...