๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ The Scottish Parliament has voted 70 to 48 to demand the devolution of broadcasting powers to Scotland.
๐ฃ Theyโve demanded those powers. Will you?
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The humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting worse. Heavy rain. Flooded tents. The reality on the ground is heartbreaking.
The UK government will not stand by. We will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering.
Your letter has not answered my questions, John.
Why did the official Scottish Government account not acknowledge Remembrance Sunday, but did post about a Sikh Festival at precisely 11am?
@malcolm_reavell 9 English prime ministers in 35 years, or 1 English prime minister every 3.89 years.
โStrong and stable,โ as one of them was want to tell us.
Exclusive from @oliver_wright
The taxpayer has spent billions of pounds preparing Britain for post-Brexit food checks that are to be scrapped as part of Labourโs reset with the European Union
Later this month Andy Burnham is due to unveil a new deal with Brussels that will eliminate controls on food and agricultural goods crossing the Channel and the Irish Sea. The prime minister said on Tuesday that the deal could increase Britainโs long-term growth by 0.4% of GDP
But the deal will mean that several billion poundsโ worth of projects introduced under the previous Conservative government to prepare the UK for the new checks will have been wasted
This includes about ยฃ750m spent over three years to implement the Windsor framework that processes goods crossing between Britain and Northern Ireland
It also includes hundreds of millions spent on setting up eight temporary inspection units around ports that were due to implement phytosanitary checks, which show if plant products are free from pests or diseases, on foods entering the UK from Europe. Those checks have never been implemented
Overall, the National Audit Office has estimated that the taxpayer has spent about ยฃ4.7bn on 13 significant border-related programmes between 2019 and this year
The figure is the equivalent of about ยฃ130 each for every taxpayer in the country and about 10 per cent of the entire schools budget
While those programmes include the cost of updating Britainโs customs systems, which is not included under the current deal, many relate to the food checks and implementing the new trade border in the Irish Sea
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Bank of England RAISES rates to 4% for first time in 3 years
8-1 vote (with 1 vote for 0.5% rise)
Q3 GDP growth now forecast at 0.7%
Inflation set for 4.9% in spring