here is the news. thanks, nicky. the conservative party has suffered two macrobid by election defeats, losing safe seats to labour and the lib dems. labour over to the majority of more than 20,000 votes in the north yorkshire seat of selvy and ainsty. the lib dems won somerset in frame, overturning a 19,000 vote majority. that the tories managed to hold onto boris johnson s that the tories managed to hold onto borisjohnson s former that the tories managed to hold onto boris johnson s former constituency of uxbridge and south rice lip in london, winning byjust under 500 votes. during a visit this morning, rishi sunak said that it showed the next general election was not a done deal and vowed to stick to his plan. in other news, new figures show the government borrowed £18.5 billion last month to bridge the gap between
i don t know why i m supposed to feel better about that. but don t private planes have to follow the same rules, or i guess not? i mean, i would guess so, right. i think the big thing here is as flyers, as consumers, you and i just don t know what s going on. all we see is a story like this every week. and we re seeing more and more them might as people try to break back and travel after covid. i did not even know there s more flights now than there was before covid. all i know is the faa is definitely, you know, understaffed, underfunded, as been reported. the budget in 2022 was 18.5 billion dollars for the faa, which is actually less than it was in 2004 adjusted for inflation. so, we have more flights. you know, we probably need better technology. we re in the 20 twenties. but why is the budget less than it wasn t 2024? john, there was a big infrastructure bill that passed. is that supposed to be helping with some of the stuff? 25 billion dollars worth of health on the way, all
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is to bring down inflation. and that means we have to be responsible with public finances. hugely volatile wholesale prices have actually fallen in recent weeks as temperatures in northern europe have been higher than usual but they re still over three times their long term average, which means most businesses will see bills rise this year. now, this mild weather has been a blessing for the government, so it will end up spending less than the £18.5 billion it is estimated the current scheme will cost, but that could change at any time. you could see a cold snap, escalating global tensions or a resurgent chinese economy, bidding up the demand for global energy. and what this new scheme does is it means all the risk of future higher prices now lies with businesses and not the government. businesses like this pub group who have seen energy driven inflation push up the cost of food, beer and wages, and say that volatile energy prices have hit their confidence and that of their customers.
our costs from gone up from £19,000 pounds a day to £23,000 a day to run the charity, at the moment we are filling in that shortfall with fundraising. it is really tough because obviously, this is something that everyone is facing, and it is quite difficult to get donations in. hugely volatile wholesale prices have fallen in recent weeks as temperatures in northern europe have been higher than usual but they are still over three times their long term average meaning most businesses will see bills rise this year. now this mild weather has been a blessing for the government, it will end up spending less than the £18.5 billion it is estimated the current scheme will cost, but that could change at any time. you could see a cold snap, escalating global tensions or a resurgent chinese economy, bidding up the demand for global energy, and what this new scheme does it means all the risk of future higher prices now lies with businesses and not the government. businesses like this pub group w