growing at a slower rate for the past two months, but inflation remains at nearly 8%, four times higher than the official target. hannah miller has this report. for father of two peter, sorting out the family finances is proving hard. he and his wife bought their first home using the help to buy scheme. but when their mortgage comes up for renewal early next year, they ll have to find an extra £750 a month in repayments. somehow we re supposed to spend less and find £750 extra a month to pay for that. so, you know, for many families, it s a terrifying situation. if you have young families like ourselves who have been swayed into the housing market by government, whose advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, when things become unaffordable, you can t simply turn around and say, that s your problem. a rise of 0.25 percentage points would take the bank of england s base rate to 5.25%, the highest since april 2008. for someone with an average tracker mortgage of
lots of showers around at those temperatures, although coming down, are actually still generally going to be a little bit above average and thatis to be a little bit above average and that is something we have rarely seen so far this september. thanks, chris. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories age, but thousands ofjobs are now at risk. the indian owners of the port talbot plant in south wales, tata, say a deep restructuring will be required but the coal filled blast furnaces will be replaced by an electric furnace. in and of itself it will eliminate 1.5% of the uk s carbon emissions. is this part of a coherent strategy to green our economy or the latest last minute brandishing of the chequebook? we re in port talbot tonight. what does the situation here tell us about the uk s willingness to fully fund the green transition, and also about that transition s potential social costs? we will discuss this with a cabinet minister and the unio
conservative manifesto launch. last night saw four party leaders grilled by a challenging question time audience on bbc one. rishi sunak was asked about the investigation into alleged bets made by two tory candidates as well as the party s director of campaigning and one of his own close protection officers. the prime minister said he was incredibly angry and that anyone with connections to him or the conservative party found to have broken gambling rules should face the full force of the law. the labour leader sir keir starmer was pushed on his previous support for former leaderjeremy corbyn, who he said would have made a better prime minister than borisjohnson. sir ed davey of the liberal democrats and the snp sjohn swinney were also grilled on the nhs, trust and past promises. but it was the prime minister who arguably faced the most challenging questions of the evening on the alleged betting scandal. when asked why those under investigation hadn t been suspended fro