the people who are affected most by high interest rates would tend to be younger households. older people, older house holders, are more likely to have paid off their mortgages they are mortgage free so they don t feel the impact of the increase in mortgage rates. you could spread the pain more broadly, so those households that, perhaps, aren t facing higher mortgage rates currently households that don t hold mortgages would potentially contribute towards the squeeze in demand by paying higher taxation. you could argue for a property tax, for example. yet there are also practical problems with using tax and spending policy to control inflation. history suggests it s hard to get the timing right, and when it comes to tax and spending political considerations often interfere unhelpfully. this is why the practice in recent decades has been to leave inflation control to the independent bank of england. however there is certainly more open thinking going on among respectab
specialist trained armed police, attended and carried out a thorough search. this search is both complex and meticulous in nature as we sought to ensure there were no further injured parties as well as seeking the arrest of the suspect. the academy was locked down and two neighbouring schools were asked to close their doors as a precaution. specialist resources including the national police service and plainclothes officers were deployed to the local area. and the suspect was arrested by firearms officers this afternoon. the national police air service. a knife was seized as part of the arrest. there were no further casualties and we can confirm no one else was injured in the attack. at this stage, the motivation behind the attack is unclear and at this time there is no evidence to suggest it is terrorism related but we are keeping an open mind of further while further inquiries are carried out. the suspect, a teenage boy from tewkesbury, was arrested on suspicion of a
are trapped beneath rubble after monday s powerful earthquake. ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine s air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n terrified today, has the government creo the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coast guard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passenger jet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic tv pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, before the plane was completely engulfed in flam
the president is set to meet with congressle leaders on tuesday, and sources tell cnn the temperature could be just right for bargaining. here s the latest from washington. president biden says he s likely meeting with congressional leaders on tuesday, setting up another showdown over the debt limit. the president said his aids are working through the timing with that meeting, but top economists say the staff level talks have been constructive, and they said they talked about the need of avoiding default. president biden struck an optimistic tone that an agreement will be reached. i learned a long time ago, and you know as well as i do it s never good to characterize talks in the middle of the talk. i think there s a desire on their part as well as ours to reach an agreement. i think we will be able to do it. in preparation for this upcoming meeting with president biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy and other congressional leaders. officials have said some of the discus
see it, the whole scene is so awful, so degrading to our once proud country. but the moment was it was too fast and at times pretty amusing , at one time the imminent tv doctor, dr. jill should be on walked over to kamala harris has been in kisse him square on that mouth withou a mask. what was that about? it was an unmistakable tea part vibe to it. old school stuff, except they let bystanders film the whole thing, so clearly they are exhibitionist to. a lot going on behind the scene at the biden administration, a lot of which we don t want to know more about that when did they find that to you time for hijinks? dr. jill is extremely busy, way busier than you are. according to her husband, she a working day and night to drag this country out of its medieva ignorance. that s not an easy task. jill, my wife who teaches full-time as an expression, and hope i get it right, any nation that out educates us is going t outcompete us. wait a second, dr. jill is teaching quote full