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all right, where do you want me? bouncing on my knee where do you think i want you? and david beckham makes his big screen debut in king arthur but his cameo gets mixed reviews. good morning. it s thursday 11th may. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. a draft of labour s 51 page general election manifesto has been leaked and seen by the bbc and a number of other news organisation. the leak came as the document was due to be formally signed off today. the document contains a number of eye catching policies including: bringing the railways back into public ownership as franchises expire and repealing the 1993 railways act which privatised the network. plans to reverse the privatisation of royal mail at the earliest opportunity . the reintroduction of maintenance grants for university students and a pledge to abolish university tuition fees. 0n energy the document includes a policy of creating at least one publicly owned energy company in every region ....
Which means we ve got to sell somewhere between 150,000, £200,000 worth more beerjust to cover the additional wages costs. but some global inflationary pressures have recently been easing. shipping goods like beer across the world now costs less than a third of what it did in 2021. that s one reason why the bank of england expects double digit inflation to drop back to single digits in the spring. for now, though, it s all about those price shocks. milk, butter, dairy foods, bread. last year, filling up the car. strangely, fruit teas, they seem to have gone from £1 to £2.25. and you think, how can that be? to stop inflation bedding down in the domestic economy, interest rates were expected after the mini budget to have to rise to 6%. now they re expected to peak in the spring at 4.5%. ....