helped to slow down the rate of price increases for non food products, which eased injanuary down from over 3% in december. i m joined now by shanti kelemen, chief investment officer at m&g wealth. good morning. this isjust what we want to hear before the bank of england has its first meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday. meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday- on thursday. yes, we will have a decision on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them - on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them on - a decision from them on interest rates, wiley expected to keep rates unchanged and thatis to keep rates unchanged and that is positive news for inflation and a prices, on the other side we do have the economy still not in a recession and wage growth has been pretty strong. there are some factors balancing inflation, thinking it might not be a sharp drop in the next few months. to not be a sharp drop in the
suggests a post covid that we are still no better at containing an outbreak. tonight with the context, rebecca harding, trent economist, and the former communications director for the and the former communications directorfor the donald and the former communications director for the donald trump campaign brian lanza. a warm welcome to the programme. there is nothing british people love more than discussing the weather but thatis more than discussing the weather but that is because it is highly changeable. we do not often discussed the weather with concern or maybe a sense of dread about where the climate is heading and we re certainly not used it a0 celsius. 0ur roads and railways were not built for it and neither our homes. we are notjust setting records this week, we are smashing them and we are doing it at an alarmingly regular interval. it should concern us as it is concerning the french and spaniards. they are used to hot temperatures but right now there are wildfires bu
The first Prime Minister with south asian roots who, after a period of turmoil in his party, promised to unite the conservatives. Well look at how he did. And the us House Of Representatives finally has a new speaker, as trump loyalist mikejohnson get s thejob. It concludes 22 days of confusion, after Kevin Mccarthy was ousted three weeks ago. Here to talk about all this are rebecca harding, an independent trade economist, and bryan lanza, former Deputy Communications director of trump campaign. Lets of trump campaign. Begin with Breaking News coming lets begin with Breaking News coming to us from the United Nations. We were discussing earlier how the Security Council had two votes which were put forward. One from russia and one from the United States. We now have the decision on the United States. Russia has vetoed the United States. Russia has vetoed the us Draught Resolution On Israel Gaza Calling for humanitarian pauses. That draught got ten votes in favour, three against and to ab