Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, i only had one. Yeah, i only had one. Yeah. I think you could mix it with something else. Yeah, yeah. That snakebite and black or is that something else. Something like something else. Yeah. Well wed love to hear what you think. As ever, send your views and post your comments using gbnews. Com yoursay say, but first, heres your latest news with tatiana sanchez. Nana, thank you very much. Good to see you. And good morning. These are the top stories from the gb newsroom. The bank of england is expected to leave its base Interest Rate unchanged at 5. 25 for a sixth time, as economists wait for inflation to come under control. The decision to be announced today comes as inflation remains at 3. 2 above the banks 2 target. It would mean a longer penod target. It would mean a longer period of higher borrowing costs, which have squeezed households since Interest Rates started rising at the end of 2021. Both Major Political parties have made Economic Growth a key part of their
The bank of englands Monetary Policy committee, the nine economists who decided Interest Rates, they dont meet every month. They meet eight months a yeah month. They meet eight months a year. The fact that they have been held, it is disappointing for lots of people who want to remortgage their house. They want to see Mortgage Rates come down, its also disappointing, of course, for someone called rishi sunak, who is betting hes bet the ranch , bet the tories bet the ranch, bet the tories entire strategy for this election, to the extent they have a strategy on playing the long game, on waiting for Interest Rate cuts on getting more tax cuts in. Weve had two so far, those National Insurance reductions, tory high command wants to get another one in before the general election. So i dont think therell be disappointment in downing street because they knew this was coming. They knew there wasnt being an Interest Rate cut today. Now, when i take my eyes away from the camera and manage to read,
Illusion we will do what ever it takes to stop the boats and deter bogus asylum seekers. Deter bogus asylum seekers. Well, there was a heckler that interrupted the home secretary today, but she said later on in the afternoon that he should be forgiven and let back into conference in these exclusive images obtained by gb news andrew boff, who was led out of the conference, is a conservative London Assembly member , had to leave the hall member, had to leave the hall after saying the home secretarys anti trans policies amounted to what he called homophobia. Homophobia. Now the Prime Minister has been telling gb news today hes the person to deliver change to britain. Rishi sunak defended his record on illegal migration, saying for the first time ever, the number of small boats crossing the English Channel from france is down by a fifth. He also reiterated his plan to halve inflation in and accused the labour leader of being light on policy. On policy. Youve got keir starmer , who youve go
News with polly middlehurst. Nigel. Thank you. The top story today is that the home secretary Suella Braverman has warned of a future hurricane of mass migration into the uk. In her speech to the Tory Party Conference in manchester today, ms braverman says that as well as stopping Illegal Migrants from coming to the uk , shell from coming to the uk, shell also make sure that legal migration is held at reasonable levels. Gb news presenter nigel farage criticised the speech , farage criticised the speech, saying the government was out of touch with ordinary voters. Ms braverman though , says the braverman though, says the conservative party will do whatever it takes to deter the boats illegal migration act, which will come into force in the coming months , now means the coming months, now means that the only route to asylum in the uk is a legal route. The act means that those arriving illegally will be detained and removed back to their home country if possible , their home country if po
Congratulations on it. Guest thank you. Coming for me thats praise indeed traded. Host you are kind indeed. Talk about the subtitle in your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio. I think it might be helpful originally to talk about these two men the context of their times. Of course they were defying me two men both alike in dignity to quote from shakespeare but separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that they shared one thing, a shakespeare wrote his plays seven years after he died. Two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume to him and collected all of that they had available and published 36 have been known 38 plays that shakespeare had written and the two men are connected across time and across the ocean and its the book that saved half of shakespeares plays from obscurity became a fetish object for collectors and henry folger chairman of the Editorial Company wanted to own every known copy of his first olio.