is still pretty sticky, but the wider picture looks like maybe tentatively heading in the right direction and inflation starting to ease somewhat. but as you ve touched on there, it will be a while until we feel the benefit of that. it will be a while, but as you say, everything s moving in the right direction. the survey data, we ve got price data on what companies are seeing in terms of their costs and what they re charging their customers and these gauges are coming down nicely now. they re consistent with inflation on the high street continuing to moderate as we go through the rest of this year. one of the other things that s quite nice to see here, in terms of the bank of england s fight, is that the labour market, the frothiness of the labour market is starting to cool as well, so that should bring down some of the wage pressures. obviously it s not great for households, but from the bank of england s determination in this fight against inflation, that battle seems to be being wo
zero have so far been removed in this way. it s worth bearing in mind that one of the goals of the rwanda plan and the illegal migration bill and indeed all of the government s suite of asylum policies, has been to serve as a powerful disincentive for people to travel to the uk to claim asylum in the first place. is there any evidence that it s had that effect? i haven t seen any. there is some evidence on whether deterrence policies more generally work, and it s tended to find that deterrence policies have a relatively small impact. there s one caveat, though, which is that the available evidence is based on policy in countries, notjust the uk but other countries too, and those policies have been less restrictive, less radical than what the government has pursued with the illegal migration act and the rwanda policy. so that remains, i think, an open question as to whether this policy and the government s whole deterrence approach more broadly, whether it will have the impact
bleeding from their heads, bleeding from on their faces. i ve seen young, i personally observed young people having panic attacks, anxiety attacks, you know, asthma attacks. it was multiple, you know, people were suffering out here. it was a lot of people. it was uncontrolled. it took us a while to get it under control. and a lot of young people got hurt. britain s met office is warning of potential road closures, power cuts and flying debris, as storm antoni batters wales and south west england. amber alerts are in place for high winds and heavy rain is also expected in northern ireland. gusts of up to 65 miles per hour, or over 100 kilometres an hour, are expected to affect large stretches of the uk s coastline. a number of events have been cancelled because of the weather conditions. it s notjust the uk that is facing severe weather. our reporter nicky schiller, has been monitoring what s happening across the rest of europe. as you say, samantha, it is notjust the united kingdom tha
the advice is clear from the met office for people to stay safe and be sensible as they venture out. here are the best of all, we are expecting tens of thousands to come to this corner of wales over the next few days. we hope the fields behind me will dry out somewhat but is definitely nothing a good set of wellington boots and umbrella come not sort out. it s notjust the uk that is facing severe weather. let s go live to the newsroom, with reporter nicky schiller, who has been monitoring what s happening across the rest of europe. as you say, it is notjust the united kingdom that is suffering unseasonable summer weather. i want to take you to georgia and show you pictures there because they search for survivors is continuing after a deadly landslide on thursday. you can see from these aerial pictures a torrent of mud swept down the valley and rescuers have been brought in using planks of wood to get across
it s notjust the uk that is facing severe weather. our reporter nicky schiller, has been monitoring what s happening across the rest of europe. as you say, it is notjust the united kingdom that is suffering unseasonable summer weather. i want to take you to georgia and show you pictures there because the search for survivors is continuing after a deadly landslide on thursday. you can see from these aerial pictures a torrent of mud swept down the valley and rescuers have been brought in using planks of wood to get across that mud. sadly 11 people died and dozens of others are feared missing, however 200 people were ta ken to safety. that is in georgia. if we move to slovenia, i can show you some pictures where there has been torrential rain there. a month s worth of rain has fallen in 2a hours, that in the north eastern centre of the country.