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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2023 3:15:27 GMT
The UK is on course to be the world's worst-performing major economy this year, according to updated predictions from the International Monetary Fund - which puts at least part of the blame on higher taxes and interest rates.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2023 23:25:22 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 1, 2023 19:41:22 GMT
Pressure is mounting on UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over the upcoming cut in support for energy bills.
It comes as energy firms are due to write to customers to warn them of bill increases from the start of April within days.
While inflation may have peaked, the rate of food price rises is still running at nearly 17%, and typical household energy bills are set to rise to £3,000 per year next month.
Since December, Newsnight has been following people who are struggling to get by in Knowsley, the second most deprived borough in England.
The programme returned again last week to see how people there are coping amidst the big squeeze. Victoria Derbyshire reports.
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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2023 17:31:13 GMT
The issue of how to house those who arrive in the UK on small boats in order to claim asylum is becoming more acute as the numbers arriving increase.
Where more permanent accommodation is unavailable, Home Office policy is to house them in hotels around the country, at a cost of approximately £4.7 million a day.
With public services in many of the towns they are placed in already stretched, this is causing friction with local communities who feel ignored by those who are deciding where to house people.
In some areas, far rights groups are exploiting those community concerns, and organising protests. Last weekend, hotels in Skegness were boarded up in preparation for one of those protests. Newsnight's Yasminara Khan was there.
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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2023 20:28:55 GMT
2,072 views Mar 3, 2023 #Newsnight #BBCNews Melanie Brown, known as Mel B, is a member of one of the most successful female bands in the world, the Spice Girls.
She's also a mum of three daughters, a businesswoman and a survivor of domestic abuse - like nearly 2 million women and 700,000 men in England and Wales.
Melanie Brown endured a traumatic ten year marriage and has since become a campaigner for the rights of domestic abuse victims by becoming a patron of the charity Women's Aid.
She tells Newsnight in an exclusive interview she wants a root and branch reform of how the UK approaches the issue - from the criminal justice system, to education in schools, to the police - and she reveals she wouldn't call the police to report domestic abuse because she wouldn't trust them to take it seriously.
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