Where necessary, policymakers must resist calls for premature Interest Rate cuts. Her comments come a day after us data showed a Surprise Increase in consumer inflation. But she also warned that waiting too long could chill economic activity, saying debt is up and the Global Economy faced a decade of weak growth, which she labelled the tepid 20s. We are indeed heading for the tepid 20s. A sluggish and disappointing decade. Mr georgievas comments come as the International Monetary fund and its fellow lending agency, the world bank, prepares to host their Spring Meeting next week in washington, where finance ministers, central bankers and policymakers from Around The World will discuss the Global Economys most pressing issues. The annual gathering takes place as several conflicts threaten Global Financial stability, including russias invasion of ukraine and the war between hamas and israel in gaza. Staying with the us, where large banks will kick off their First Quarter Earnings Season
particularly in central and southern parts of england. frosty tonight, already temperatures are minus nine in scotland. there is the fog, the mist and low cloud. it will shrink and break up, sunshine coming through for many. but grey and murky in lincolnshire. some showers in north west england and a cold day. temperatures one to that he celsius. coming into that cold air we have showers that are going but with thousands of civilian casualties, are israel s western allies now changing their tone? more gazan civilians die as both sides blame each other for the failure to extend the truce. the us, egypt and qatar push for a new cessation of hostilities. we speak to the israeli military, a former member of qatar s intelligence service, and a one time top uk diplomat. also tonight, after newsnight s revelations this week about allegations of a mafia like culture at another nhs trust, the boss of that trusts responds. joe s here with the latest. and in dubai, rishi sunak and kei
the chancellor says we ve turned a corner, but is the uk now in a cul de sac? i now call the chancellor to make the autumn statement, jeremy hunt. jeremy hunt trumpets a two percentage point cut in national insurance, and an almost 2% rise in the living wage, but the uk tax burden is still the heaviest since world war ii, and growth forecasts are down, so will the cost of living crisis still be a cost of living crisis next year and the year after? nick s been out gauging reaction injeremy hunt s patch. ijust i just worry that this is a government that is running out of good ideas. government that is running out of good ideas- government that is running out of aood ideas. , ., ., , , good ideas. they are doing the best the can good ideas. they are doing the best they can under good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. l they can under the circumstances. they they can under the circumstanc
good evening. the government s chief scientific advisor during covid, sir patrick vallance, has revealed more about what went on in downing street during the pandemic. the covid inquiry heard that the then prime mininster, borisjohnson, was clearly bamboozled by the science around covid. excerts from sir patrick s diary at the time were read out at the inquiry and he had plenty to say about these two men he described borisjohnson as inconsistent, indecisive and weak. and he said scientists were not consulted on the eat out to help out scheme l aunched by the then chancellor rishi sunak. sir patrick said it was very obvious that it would increase transmission of coronavirus. here s our political editor, chris mason. images from the pandemic. otherworldly moments we ll never forget. lives lost, liberties crushed an unimaginable new normal for a while at least. the evidence i shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. in his diary in summer