Michael Race

Senior business and economics journalist for @BBCNews ✍🏼. 📩 [email protected] | Chairman @Cumnorcricket | #NUFC

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Tax rises could push food prices higher, warn supermarkets https://t.co/uUWPIZtwSV

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

“What wretched question have you prepared?” My surreal Q&A with Alexander Lukashenko last Sunday. He claimed his opponents had “chosen” prison or exile (in reality the authorities had chosen to target them.) Thanks @LizaShuvalova @AntonChicherov

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@fayeharland @AndyDavidJones It just wouldn't be Christmas without this, would it?

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer @LizaShuvalova

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW & EXCL 🚨

Tesla owner Elon Musk not invited to next month’s UK Government International Investment Summit, after his social media posts during August riots. Musk made civil war predictions & spread [later deleted] false stories about detainment camps
https://t.co/c2JiewNUaF

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🚨INVESTIGATION🚨
How is Russia importing sanctioned British & EU cars in industrial quantities without it showing up in the trade data?
I've spent the past few months trying to find out. My & @aoifeyourell's film from the Caucasus on how it happens👇 https://t.co/09dhlDc0pH

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Bank of England expected to hold interest rates at 5% https://t.co/atFnHCnQ8G

[Henry Zeffman @hzeffman]

EXCLUSIVE from ⁦@ChrisMasonBBC⁩ and me

Keir Starmer's top aide Sue Gray is paid more than the PM

Meanwhile her junior colleagues are complaining they are underpaid

Another sign of deep tensions at the top of government https://t.co/qVb0ZkP1u0

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NAO confirms that HS2 without phase 2 will result in trains with less space between Manchester and Birmingham than current west Coast services, and might require demand management to dissuade passengers… https://t.co/kWasFbpLeI

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@KenWood30786656 Thanks - corrected now

[Andy Verity @andyverity]

Goods prices have moved from inflation to DE-flation. It will take a while, of course, for that to relieve the pressure for most households - because the cost of living is still well up on where it was. But it was goods prices that drove it up - and now they're pulling it down:

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@Tanisha85680934 @OfficialPLT Thanks, if you could follow me back I can message.

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@meganbethany_x Hi, I am a reporter for the BBC looking into this as it seems several people have the same issue. Would you be free to talk more about this? Thanks, Michael

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@laurenkeeley_ @OfficialPLT Hi Lauren, I'm a reporter for the BBC who is looking into this as it seems a lot of people have had the same email. Would you be free to chat about this? Thanks

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@its_jodes @kiyahmaari Hi, I am a reporter for the BBC looking into this as it seems several people have the same issue. Would you be free to talk more about this? Thanks, Michael

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@kiyahmaari Hi, I am a reporter for the BBC looking into this as it seems several people have the same issue. Would you be free to talk more about this? Thanks, Michael

[Michael Race @MRaceBBC]

@simonnread Newcastle upon Tyne! Just to the left of where you took that photo there's a great Italian restaurant, Uno's. Been there for decades.

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

Bank of England HOLDs rates at 5.25% for sixth consecutive meeting…

but one more vote from Bank Deputy Governor for a cut… 7-2 vote

Forecast growth of 0.4% in Q1, recession over

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

This is how close Coventry were to winning the #FACup semi-final in the final minute of extra time. 😮