Latest ONS figures show public sector productivity fell by 0.7% in the three months to June. That’s the steepest fall in nearly three years. Those public sector pay rises Labour handed over didn’t help then…
Healthcare productivity fell by 1.5% and total public service productivity grew by just 0.3% in 2024 – well below the 0.7% average annual growth rate in the decade up to 2019. Meanwhile, the OBR is expected to downgrade UK productivity, Oxford Economics analysis shows that the UK’s national debt is growing at the fastest rate of any advanced economy, and accountancy firm EY predicts unemployment will rise to 5% next year. And that’s before you get to Reeves’ tax hikes…
Local government minister Alison McGovern told LBC that the BBC should apologise to Trump:
“If they’ve made an editorial mistake, then they should apologise. And, more broadly, I think if they’ve made errors, I think the answer to that is better quality journalism, and to invest in that journalism so that we can have the standard of programmes we all want from the BBC.”