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Tory leadership debate: Highlights from Our Next Prime Minister

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The two candidates to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party have clashed in their first head-to head television debate.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss traded jabs on issues including taxes, levelling up and foreign policy.

Missed the debate or need a recap?

Watch the highlights from the BBC debate in just two minutes here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-62299315


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TV cameras are now allowed into Crown Courts for the first time.

First televised sentencing here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62332824
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The UK is now facing an unprecedented economic, energy, and food crisis in the very near future.

I think we're looking at probable civil unrest in Q1 2023 or even sooner. Our government is fiddling while Rome burns, and appears more focused on stoking culture wars than addressing this looming catastrophe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62475171


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wjfox wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:13 pm The UK is now facing an unprecedented economic, energy, and food crisis in the very near future.

I think we're looking at probable civil unrest in Q1 2023 or even sooner. Our government is fiddling while Rome burns, and appears more focused on stoking culture wars than addressing this looming catastrophe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62475171


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How is anyone suppose to afford this and i do hope there will be so we can kick the Tories out of government.
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wjfox wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:13 pm The UK is now facing an unprecedented economic, energy, and food crisis in the very near future.

I think we're looking at probable civil unrest in Q1 2023 or even sooner.
In a normal country, this situation would trigger civil unrest. However, in Britain, all we will probably do is moan, grumble, and then get back to work like demoralised 19th Century Russian peasants. It would be nice to be proven wrong, but we don't have much of a revolutionary tradition.
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Biggest UK fall in real wages for 100 years looms, warns TUC
Thu 11 Aug 2022 14.03 BST

Pay rises could fall behind inflation by almost 8% later this year, marking the biggest fall in real wages for 100 years, according to analysis by the TUC.

The TUC said a prediction by the Bank of England that inflation would jump to 13% in the fourth quarter of this year at a time when wages were expected to increase by just 5.25% meant living standards would fall by an unprecedented 7.75%.

The figure was calculated by looking at the impact of inflation on workers’ living standards using the latest Bank forecasts. The TUC said that workers had not suffered such a severe and prolonged decline in wages relative to inflation since the 1920s.

Tens of thousands of workers have signalled that they are prepared to strike after a series of ballots for industrial action.

More than 115,000 UK postal workers are to stage a series of strikes later this month after they rejected a pay offer worth up to 5.5%. They could soon be joined by up to 480,000 nurses after the Royal College of Nursing urged its members to back strike action in support of a pay claim for 5% above June’s 11.8% retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -inflation
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