good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the bank of england has raised interest rates from 3.5 to li% their highest level since 2008. the increase will leave millions of households facing higher mortgages at a time when many people are already struggling with energy and food bills. it will also have an impact on repayment charges on bank loans and credit cards but it is better news for savers, who should get a higher return. the bank of england says the increase will help to curb rising prices. our economics correspondent andy verity reports. in leeds like every where else, the cost of keeping up a mortgage isjumping, because of interest rates. stu is used to saving after spending much of his life on a minimum wage. he got a better paying job as a librarian, but like many, his wages have stagnated. when his mortgage expired his payments went from £90 a month to £360. i thought the days of checking the bank balance were gone. but they re back with a vengeance now. it is
along with congressman byron donal accountas and john james i roy and republican conference confchair, at least the phonic. now, coming up, we will dove headfirst into the republican agenda from investigations to oversight to the abuse ofg power to removing fang fang s boyfriend from the intel. committee. weamittee. special look at the u. penn biden center for diplomacyo engagement made possible, itt appears, by the communist party of china.y afte now in 2014, shortly after acade establishing the academic center all in biden s name and appointing appointing the former vice president to lead the new department, 50 former million dollars in anonymous donations from china magically just poured right into the coffers. and the coffers. watchdog demanded that these sketchy donationsnd be investigated out of national security concerns. and now lndo and behold, breaking this week, a trove of top secret classified documents, including sensitive compartmented information from the oba
already cast their ballots by mail. by the time fetterman and oz finally meet face the face early voting will have been going on for more than a month. it comes as fetterman faces growing attention for not releasing medical records after a stroke in may. brit hume making some interesting points last night with bret on special report. he has agreed to one. he will be pressed to agree to more, whichever way it goes, there is a risk forfeiterman that he will get in the debate and not do very well because he is not well and the other side the expectations for him in any debate will be very low and media will see to that. dana: the anchor of special report and chief political anchor bret baier. you have that and response from the oz campaign. let s get your thoughts. oz said after being hit with massive criticism from state and national editorials for ducking fetterman agreed to one debate. he insisted be delayed until two weeks remain in the campaign to keep voters in the dar