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if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us it is time for the top business stories. we start here in the uk where in the next few hours the bank of england is widely expected to raise the cost of borrowing for the twelfth time in a row. the quarter percent rise most economists are predicting would take the bank s main interest rate to 4.5% the highest it has been in almost 15 years. the big question though will it be enough to start to get inflation, which is still running at more than 10% a year, under control? let s speak to katharine neiss she has held various roles at the bank of england and is now chief european economist at p gim fixed income. good to have you on the programme. iassume good to have you on the programme. i assume you are with the majority believe we are looking at a rate hike today of another 25 basis points. today of another 25 basis oints. . , today of another 25 basis oints. . , ., , points. that s right, that s the consensus p
kevin mccarthy, the speaker oflf the house, all of his meeting requests. he wouldn t even pick up ta the phone and take mccarthy s calls. he even blaststhy s calls. a go. bill raising the debt limit, the very thing that woulvedry ti tht the u.s. fromwith a defaulting. but now, with the possible pblea default, only twenty two daystoda away, joe biden, well, today he finally met with the speaker ofy the house and the minority leader in the senate. but lat is this a little too? little, too late? we all right.will coming up tonight, we ll ask louisiana senator john kennedy that question. that we start tonight di with this. did the cia activelythe cr helpr joe biden get elected president in the fall of twenty 20 ? did they put a cinder blocke on the scales of the election? s isas is alleged about the fbi? we have a bombshell new report from the house judiciary committee. it is exposing a shocking levele of election malfeasance among tployees at the ciact. according to fox news,