Michael Knowles

Breaking: Traders now fully price two quarter point Bank of England interest rate hikes this year Andrew Bailey warns policy must “respond to the risk of a more persistent effect on UK CPI inflation” caused by Trump’s war in Iran Govt borrowing costs are now surging

Denmark and allies were flying in blood products and preparing for blowing up the airstrips as Trump threatened Greenland in January. Surprising no-one the 'exercise' Arctic Endurance was in fact an active operation, planned since 2025 with France, Germany and Nordics (+UK?).

Cyprus PM on future of British bases: “When this unfortunate situation in the Middle East is over, we need to have an open and frank conversation about the status and future of the British bases in Cyprus,”

Not understanding a policy is not justification for attacking it. There is no “row back” on settlement. The period is extending from 5 to 10 years. As has always been the case, and explained consistently, we have just closed a consultation that considers transitional arrangements and potential exemptions. Further decisions are currently being made after the 200k responses are analysed. I am in the Home Office to deliver for the country, these changes are needed given the unmanageable pace and scale of change we have seen, we are preventing 1.6 million having access to the already buckling welfare system, over a short period of time. None of this means we do not value contribution of migrants, quite the opposite. The new system will reward contribution and integration. Polling shows that the changes we are making are popular, because they are necessary. We said we’d put country first before the election, that is what we are doing.

🚨 BREAKING: The meningitis outbreak has been declared a "national incident" with the first case now reported in London