and labour s bridget phillipson who ll be education secretary in less than a fortnight if the polls are right. 11 days to go, are you tired, exhausted, relieved it is nearly over? sonic regardless the sun has come out. i got to wear shorts the other day, small mercies in elections. but i like electioneering, so i don t mind. are you hoping to get more votes with the shorts? i’m you hoping to get more votes with the shorts? you hoping to get more votes with the shorts? . . ., the shorts? i m afraid i might have ut some the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some peeple the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the - the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the sun - the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the sun is i put some people off. the sun is shinin: put some people off. the sun is shining but put some people off. the sun is shining but nothing put so
thanks forjoining us on bbc news. uk inflation has hit the bank of england s target of 2% for the first time in almost three years. the figure which tells us the rate at which prices are rising hit the target in may, coming down from 2.3% in april. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. gary in sussex used to have seven butchers shops. he now has four. forced to make cuts as he s been caught between soaring costs over the last few years and customers with lean budgets looking for value. but things are easing. the price is probably 10 15% more than they were at the beginning of covid, but the actual price of the product is pretty much stationary now. well, we hope it s stationary. it would be nice if it would come down, but i can t see that, not in the foreseeable future anyway. it s global food and energy costs, which triggered the rise in inflation to ii% in 2022, which have also helped it fall to the 2% target, along with the rate rises over the last
including the stunning win over ukraine in munich. good evening. we start the programme with a bbc investigation that has uncovered shocking claims that the greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the mediterranean over a three year period including nine people who were deliberately thrown into the water. more than a0 people are alleged to have died as a result of being forced out of greek territorial waters, or taken back out to sea after reaching greek islands. with more on this, here s paul adams. for more than ten years, migrants escaping war, persecution or poverty have used a number of routes to reach europe. some travel from north africa to italy. others cross from turkey to the nearby greek islands. for many greece is seen as the best way into europe. last year, just over 41,000 people arrived using that route. human rights groups say thousands of people seeking asylum have been forced back, illegally, from greece to turkey. denied the right
the institute for fiscal studies, who you may or may not have heard of, it s theirjob, and they re very public about this, aren t they, to test whether or not political parties sums add up. and when you look at it, so i ve got the labour manifesto here and they ve done their costings at the back of the actual book. the conservatives put out a separate book with their costings. there s lots of kind of suspiciously round numbers here because obviously they ve got to do. it s, it s, it s educated guesswork. yeah. a, how much stuff is going to cost? secondly, what the state of the economy is going to be, so, how much growth is there going to be? what does that mean for tax revenues? so there s quite a lot of guesswork. and then, yes, every party, i was at a news conference today that was all about this. every party will then try and trash their opponents and suggest that their numbers are dodgy. so i was at a conservative event today that was trying to do that about labour s mani