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Why Bank kept interest rates on hold despite message for UK to brace itself for Trumpflation

The reasons are hardly comforting, pointing to the weakness of a battered economy in the face of this latest crisis Business live – latest updates Bank warns ‘higher inflation unavoidable’ after leaving interest rates on hold The message to the UK’s crisis-weary households from the Bank of England is: brace yourself for Trumpflation – and the higher interest rates it may yet take to rein it in. Reading the Bank’s quarterly monetary policy report, it is not difficult to understand the fury Rac

Xander West: Baldwin’s resurgence and the first shadow cabinet

Baldwin’s actions directly disprove the notion that a substantial reformatting of ideas or policies must occur on a timeline approaching years. Just because the next election is remote, albeit nearly two years have elapsed already, should not engender a relative passivity nor timidity around key decisions. The post Xander West: Baldwin’s resurgence and the first shadow cabinet appeared first on Conservative Home.

Golders Green suspect had previously been referred to Prevent, Met confirms

The Met Police have issued a statement.

WATCH: Starmer Booed on Arrival to Golders Green

As per Paul Brand. Nigel Farage also visited the area… The Met has said the Golders Green knife suspect was known to the Prevent counter-extremism programme and was subject to a referral in 2020, which was closed in the same year.

Labour annihilation as Keir Starmer expected to lose nearly 2,000 Councillors

Damning new polling lays bare the massacre awaiting the Labour Party at next week's local elections.

Donald Trump 'breaks protocol' during King Charles visit after 'flabbergasting' remark

Following some of President Donald Trump's comments during his state dinner speech, Buckingham Palace had to react quickly in response

Bank of England Holds Interest Rates at 3.75%

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has voted to hold interest rates at 3.75%. As expected… Eight votes for no change, down from nine, and one vote for a 25 basis point hike. A shift in position…

'Whose side is he on?' Zack Polanski sparks outrage over Golders Green attack retweet

Mr Polanski shared a social media post stating "officers were repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head".

Could Lib Dems become the biggest party in English local government?

With voter loyalty a distant memory, the Lib Dems’ cost of living policies and criticism of Trump could gain them ground It has been an election buildup dominated by the rise of Reform UK and the Greens, and the contrasting woes of Labour and the Tories. But there is a chance that on 8 May the Liberal Democrats, largely ignored in recent weeks, could wake up as the biggest party in English local government. This is just one of several paradoxes for the party’s leader, Ed Davey, and his team. T

Starmer: “People Were Targeted Because They Are Jewish”

Hereditary peers' last hurrah as 700-year-old system abolished

It comes after legislation to remove their right to sit in the upper chamber passed last month.

Bank Taxing Labour’s Flagship “£10 Billion” Financial Services Unit Run by Six People

As Labour refuses to rule out additional taxes on banks Guido can reveal that the flagship “single front door for international financial services firms wishing to set up or expand their operations in the UK” only contains six people. Who also have other duties in DBT… Reeves personally announced OfI:FS alongside the City of London…