stephanie rawlings blake, the former mayor of baltimore, and lord peter ricketts, the uk s former national security adviser. hello, welcome to the programme. borisjohnson will face no further action from the metropolitan police over the parties that were held in downing street while covid restrictions were in place. borisjohnson and the chancellor, rishi sunak, were both fined last month for breaking covid laws at a birthday party in the cabinet room injune 2020. in a lengthy statement, the met said they had issued a total of 126 fixed penalty notices, fines to 83 men and women most of them understood to be civil servants who were at events on eight different dates between may 2020, at the height of lockdown, to april 2021. here s our political editor chris mason. it was not long before christmas that partygate was first exposed, and since january, officers here have been investigating it, investigating the prime minister and the government he runs and whether they abided b
Repeat mistakes of the past and have this be more embedded in a world thatis this be more embedded in a world that is likely to be more inflation prone post pandemic as well. politically, this is dangerous in a midterm year forjoe biden. politically, this is dangerous in a midterm yearforjoe biden. the problem is this will only start to emerge as the months roll on because you book producers and manufacturers who have taken a hit on their margins, swallowing some of the cost, but the pressure retail and that will be passed on to the computer onto the consumer. it may crosstalk let may crosstalk let me bring in stephanie on that. i was saying that there is no way that the economy will turn around and the inflation the economy will turn around and the inflation will be. in a good place by the inflation will be. in a good place by the midterm elections. biden knows by the midterm elections. biden knows that this is going to be his problem knows that this is going to be his pr