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We spoke to Dr Sushil Wadhwani, a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.

Owning a home is getting more expensive as lenders begin putting up mortgage rates, spooked by stubbornly high inflation figures.

Food inflation is still at very high levels – the figure of over 19% is a near record high, and is in sharp contrast to other areas where inflation is falling more dramatically.

The chief executive of Skipton Building Society Stuart Haire joins me now.

The Bank of England is expected to put up interest rates later this week to their highest level for 15 years in a bid to bring down inflation. It’ll be the 12th increase in the cost of borrowing since the end of 2021 – although one building society has now started offering a deposit free…

The early morning scramble to get a doctor’s appointment will be a thing of the past, according to the Government – which says it’s giving GP practices a total of £240 million “to embrace new technology”.

We spoke to Ben Westhoff – who’s spent years investigating the hazardous world of synthetic drugs – and the illegal industry behind the opioid epidemic.

The Equality and Human rights watchdog has warned that the Government’s plans to stop people crossing the channel in small boats may breach the UK’s legal obligations. The EHRC said the Illegal Migration Bill

The CBI has accepted that it failed to filter out “culturally toxic people” during its hiring process.

We were joined by Baroness Wheatcroft, who’s a former non executive director of Barclays Bank.

A growing number of business leaders are calling for the CBI to disband, in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, declaring that the organisation has now run its course. 

From Nat West to John Lewis, more leading British companies have decided to leave the CBI after the Guardian published a second allegation from a former staff member, who said she was raped by two colleagues.

The UK is set to be one of the world’s worst performing major economies this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.

One company that publicly warned it could walk away from the CBI is Adnams, the brewer.

The head of the CBI, one of Britain’s largest business groups, says he is shocked at being sacked over claims about his behaviour towards staff members at work.