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Today. it seems like divided rule to get the rcn in for the nurses, but not the gmb or unison, who have also been a part of the industrial action. the contract that covers health workers is a general one. it is a question whether this pay off i will go to everybody who is covered by that contract. then you take teachers, they were offered talks if they called off strikes in england they called off strikes in england the planned for schools. they said no, because they want to see something more concrete before they take that decision. yes, is there a bit of optimism there that hasn�*t been th...

A way of ending the strikes but i can't emphasise enough, every time i speak to people in downing street or the treasury or senior ministers, the treasury or senior ministers, the thing they all talk about is inflation. rishi sunak has made getting inflation down the biggest test for his government, his number one priority. and he does believe that if you have high pay deals in the public sector that will make bringing inflation down harder. so at the moment i don't think he is minded to move, even though there is that damage to the perception of the governmentjust that damage to the perceptio...

Spend to get the economy moving again. the government does not agree and the calculation it has made as if you get inflation down, people will have more money to spend. i don't think people will change their mind on that. don't think people will change their mind on that-— mind on that. thank you, nick eardle , mind on that. thank you, nick eardley. our— mind on that. thank you, nick eardley, our political - eardley, our political correspondent. we can speak now to yael selfin, chief economist at the global accountancy firm kpmg. good to have you with us, just the imf's good to have you wi...

Made. and as things stand here, the uk government doesn't think that that should be revisited. ihlick that should be revisited. nick eardle , that should be revisited. nick eardley, thank _ that should be revisited. nick eardley, thank you. - the electric car battery maker britishvolt is expected to go into administration after hopes of a last—minute bid for the company faded. the firm had been expecting to build a new £3.8 billion factory in the port of blyth in northumberland. our business correspondent theo legget is here. that project, the factory, it was huge and ambitious, what happen...

My be enough to call off the strikes. my understanding is that no firm proposal has been put to the treasury as things stand at the moment, and there are no talks planned with striking health unions yet to discuss a concrete offer. so potentially that could still be a few days, potentially a few weeks actually, away from being put on the table. in the meantime we still have these strikes going ahead today with more planned for nurses next week, and we don't really have an obvious answer to the question of, are we in answer to the question of, are we in a place where these strikes could potenti...