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...Many economists think the BoE is more likely to wait until August, when it will have more certainty that inflationary pressures have died down....
...In the three months to February, the economy grew 0.2 per cent compared with the previous three months, marking the first expansion since August 2023....
...The MPC has since left rates unchanged since August last year, although its nine members were split three ways when they last met in February....
...Traders are no longer fully pricing in the first UK interest rate cut by August and now expect borrowing costs to begin to fall in either that month or September....
...The FT revealed the initial dilution of Labour’s plans last August....
...The commission, which oversees UK elections, said last year that “hostile actors” first breached its network in August 2021, but nobody has been held responsible until now....
...In August 2022, the latest HMRC statistics available, 683,000 families chose to opt out of receiving payments....
...They urged Hunt to address forecasting errors that the OBR itself identified last August, and to “take steps to remedy the forecasting failings”....
...Starmer set out plans in August 2022 to raise £8bn from a higher windfall tax and said he would backdate the levy to the start of the energy crisis, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
...The new survey showed unemployment edging up to 3.8 per cent in the three months to August....
...In August 1943, Boris had a meeting with Hitler, which, by all accounts, went badly; two weeks later, the king was dead....
...The historians include Heinrich August Winkler, one of the country’s most respected academics and an SPD member for more than 60 years. The letter’s four other signatories are also party members....
...In August the government’s electricity networks commissioner Nick Winser recommended households living near new transmission lines should be given lump sum compensation payments....
...James Heappey, the armed forces minister, Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Foreign Office minister, have also been touted as leading candidates by Conservative figures....
...On migration, Sunak authorised the expansion in August of the “shortage occupation list” to bring more foreign workers into the country to fill skills gaps and boost the economy, while three months later...
...Figures published on Thursday showed there were 65,004 cases waiting to be heard at crown courts in England and Wales at the end of August — a 7 per cent increase on the same period in 2022....
...It also followed Wednesday’s unexpected dip in inflation to 6.7 per cent for August, which put Sunak on course to hit his target of “halving inflation” this year....
...Dan Frumkin, Metro’s chief executive, told the Financial Times in August that it remained the issue that “comes up in the majority of conversations with debt and equity investors”....
...But Dorries delayed her formal resignation until August, forcing the contest to rage on for months....
...The Financial Conduct Authority launched a probe in August, weeks after former UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage unleashed a debate on free speech by claiming his accounts with private bank Coutts...
...The exercise only began in August after Farage ignited a national debate on free speech by claiming he had been ejected from private bank Coutts because of his political views....
...Hours earlier, completing the trifecta, the Office for National Statistics reported that public sector borrowing in August was more than £1bn lower than the official forecast....
...According to Migration Watch UK there were 15,071 small boat crossings this year up until August 3, 14 per cent fewer than at the same point last year....
...However the mayor said he would not axe the low emission zone extension, which takes effect across the capital on August 29....
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