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Economics Correspondent Channel 4 News .Reporting on monetary & fiscal policy + what it means for households + inequality. PP: Bank crises + health economics

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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
ICYMI, we had a big story on big oil tonight - exclusive research for Channel 4 news revealed that: 🛢️ BP is the biggest beneficiary of tax rebates in the North Sea ‼️➖‼️ But, in 2019 it paid an incredible -54% effective tax rate (MINUS 54) !!!! (1/4)
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1 year
Thanks Cathy! Thanks @Channel4News for all the support. Happy I can still string a sentence together!
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Cathy Newman
1 year
Great to have @heliaebrahimi back on @Channel4News tonight. She’s wrangled cancer, now she’s wrangling the #Budget23 figures. Smashing both 💥
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8 years
Incredible scenes in Westminster as the Remain March arrive singing: "racists out, immigrants in" #brexit #EUref
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Helia Ebrahimi
1 year
It’s been a while. But I’m back ⁦ @Channel4News ⁩ in time for the budget after a year of cancer treatment Here’s my piece⁩ about getting cancer, the NHS +the friends +fam who get u thru “You may have many defeats But you must never be defeated”
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
Here's the numbers behind our big story tonight on BP and North Sea tax
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
What Brexit uncertainty? U.K. employment jumps 141k in latest 3 months. And full time jobs account for all the rise in employment in the last year. Employment rate at record high. Earnings growth of 3.3% ex bonuses at highest since 2008 crash. Pay with rising at 3.4%
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
Moment Remain protesters started singing "Hey EU" for "Hey Jude" @campbellclaret @jonsnowC4 @Channel4News #EUref
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
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So, here’s something a little more personal 💛 My take on the ups + downs of going back to work after being away for cancer treatment - 🔸Why asking for support matters 🔸And why a sense of purpose helps you get through ⁦ @macmillancancer ⁩ ⁦
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
BREAKING: ➡️ Interest rates raised to 0.5% ➡️ inflation now set to peak at 7.25% (A figure NEVER seen before in a Bank of England forecast) ➡️ the biggest hit to post-tax income since record began (1990) ➡️ down 2%
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‼️➖‼️ And in 2020 it had a - 19% effective tax rate 💰 In fact, since 2016 BP has actually been paid £493m in rebates from the taxpayer (2/4)
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➡️ But BP is not alone 🛢️ 19 North Sea operators have taken £2.4bn in rebates since major targets on climate change were agreed in Paris. 🤔 BP agrees its North Sea business hasn’t paid corporation taxes for years. But says it's invested $7bn in north sea operations here (3/4)
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2 years
These taxpayer rebates and profits in the billions could bolster demand for a windfall tax. Soaring energy prices are forcing millions of people in the UK into fuel poverty. Last week, I spoke to Lowri Williams about the struggle to pay the bills. (4/4)
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
2 years
“It’s soul-destroying, waking up every day, looking at the bank and seeing nothing.” Single mother Lowri Williams describes the struggle of not having enough money to eat and pay bills with the cost of living crisis forcing her to sell her possessions online.
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
My last day in the office before maternity leave.... I’m sure nothing much will happen while I’m off....
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Channel 4 News
5 years
"Do you accept that we're now staring down the barrel of a recession?" That was what @heliaebrahimi asked Chancellor Sajid Javid after the UK economy shrank for the first time since 2012.
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EXCLUSIVE: My story tonight about the soaring prices of PPE paid for by Government – leaked documents show how Government paid vastly different prices for the same masks during the same period of time
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2 years
The Prime Minister was “Ambushed with a cake” Amazing line 🍰🍰🍰 @ConorBurnsUK tells @cathynewman
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Channel 4 News
2 years
"He was ambushed with a cake." A Conservative MP says that a birthday celebration held in Downing Street for Boris Johnson wasn't a "premeditated party". Conor Burns tells @cathynewman that he supports Boris Johnson and that "the public will ultimately judge".
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Our exclusive story tonight: The polling shows 🔹ONLY 1/7 people say they actually want tax cuts if it ALSO means cuts to public services 🔹Even within Tory voters, just  1 in 6 believe giveaways are worth it if you end up with cuts elsewhere 🔹In fact, 1/3 of people would
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Channel 4 News
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Survey of UK voters reveals three quarters would back keeping taxes the same or seeing them rise
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How #ArtificialIntelligence can transform healthcare: my exclusive report with #DeepMind on @Channel4News tonight 7pm, @mustafasuleymn #NHS
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
Here’s the latest stark data on WEALTH in Britain from the @ONS (1/3) ➡️ The wealth of the richest 1% = £3.6m or MORE ➡️ The wealth of poorest 10% = £15,400 or LESS ➡️ The wealth of the richest 1% is 233X the wealth of the bottom 10% @Channel4News
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3 years
BREAKING: Lobbying watchdog ORCL says it’ll investigate @David_Cameron after revelations he approached @bankofengland + @hmtreasury to try and win taxpayer backed loans for financial services firm Greensill (now in administration) @Channel4News
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Helia Ebrahimi
3 years
(3/3) But under the new Government proposals: With assets under £106k = 80% wd be what you could lose on care costs With assets £500k = 17.2% wd still be most you wd lose Hugely amplifying the relative exposure of poorer homeowners +putting them at risk of catastrophic risk
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5 years
BREAKING: UK GDP slows for the 4th quarter after monthly growth just 0.1% as businesses await tomorrow’s Brexit vote #brexit #brexitvote
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Helia Ebrahimi
7 years
This is what the OBR downgrade means: £44bn knocked off the UK economy by 2021 #Budget2017 @Channel4News Basically, equal to the current Brexit divorce bill
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
Inflation at 30-year high this morning @HLInvest notes: (1/2) ➡️ this time last yr petrol prices = 114.1p/ litre ➡️ this December = 145.8p ➡️ It means filling up a 55 litre car now costs £17.44 more ➡️ Overall cost of transport up 11.9% in a year But food was even worse…
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Helia Ebrahimi
6 months
My first time in the Leeds studio tonight with the amazing @C4Ciaran 🔹Talking tax, Autumn Statement and problems with the British economy… 🔹 watch @Channel4News
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Helia Ebrahimi
1 year
When a 6% squeeze is good news, it tells you how difficult the situation is
@OBR_UK
Office for Budget Responsibility
1 year
Living standards are expected to fall by 6% over this fiscal year and next as inflation outstrips income growth. This is less than the 7% fall we expected in November but still the largest two-year fall since ONS records began in the 1950s. #SpringBudget #Budget2023
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The @bankofengland has told @c4news it received several approaches from Greensill Capital, including personally from @David_Cameron , to help the now collapsed firm with funding during the crisis
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
Breaking: EDF ceo Vincent de Rivaz cancels UK trip after UK Gov says it needs more time 2 "consider carefully" deal
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Nice to be back at work - Here’s last night’s piece examining the details of @RishiSunak £75bn defence package
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Channel 4 News
1 month
How does the UK defence spending boost add up?
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1 year
What a night for @Channel4News 📣📣📣 For the whole team, for @esmewren , and @mattfrei 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 @krishgm and all the teams on the ground @hodgerob @fedescher
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Cathy Newman
1 year
Love this! Vintage @mattfrei
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Helia Ebrahimi
6 years
UK may be looking to join TPP but hard to see how countries like Peru can rival Germany given exports hit a modest £223m in 2015 vs £46.5bn to Germany #trade #Brexit
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4 years
US Oil price goes negative - spectacularly so - there are technical factors at work but it’s an extraordinary measure of the times we’re living through
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
@damocrat @PickardJE And in soho, comedian @andyzaltzman examines the real meaning of the word “leave” #Trexit
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Absolutely unbelievable
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Channel 4 News
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“You cannot rant against the elite when you’re behaving like one of its members.” @Nigel_Farage is challenged about taking a private plane overnight to get from London to Strasbourg. #72DaysToBrexit
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Apple paid just €50 of tax per every €1m of profits made thru its HQ in cork 2014 - an effective tax rate of 0.005% #AppleTax @Channel4News
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
No prime minister, no government and now no England manager. The latter is long overdue tho #ENG #England #EURO2016
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Net Zero Carbon plan a remarkable symbol of a dramatic shift in UK politics. But unlikely to satisfy Extinction Rebellion who demand zero carbon by 2025
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Helia Ebrahimi
1 year
Here's the picture on Inflation: > UK: 10.1% > Germany: 7.8% > France: 6.6% Another area where the UK is underperforming our nearest competitors
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1 year
NEW: So Inflation has not tamed in March despite fall in fuel prices. Why? 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍞🍞🍺🧉🧁 Food and non-alcoholic beverages were up by a whopping 19.2% This is the HIGHEST rate seen for over 45 years #CostOfLivingCrisis @Channel4News
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5 years
BREAKING: "Our country is facing a national emergency" CBI and TUC send joint letter to PM telling her to change Brexit approach and asking for urgent meeting @CBItweets @The_TUC
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5 years
Monthly GDP numbers show this is not just about March 29 Brexit date; services flat in June; production down 0.2%; construction down 0.7% #GDP
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Helia Ebrahimi
3 months
Here’s me tonight - talking about sanctions on Russian oil and the growing shadow fleet outside the reach of sanctions 🚢🪝
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
3 months
The West has tried to contain President Putin by sanctioning his oil industry - imposing a $60 a barrel price cap on its key export. The UK government says this has cost Russia hundreds of billions of dollars: but how effective has it really been? @heliaebrahimi explains.
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Helia Ebrahimi
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Priceless
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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Having a post-Strictly clear out of clothes that don’t fit anymore and found the one Newsround jumper I kept at the bottom of the drawer!
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EXCLUSIVE: Tonight, we reveal the amount spent by the British Business Bank on management consultants. Since the pandemic £37m paid to consultants (1/3) Top of that list……
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Breaking: Chancellor commits another £2.1bn to “turbo-charge” preps for #NoDealBrexit HM Treasury now spending £6.3bn on exit
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 months
Andy Haldane tells me (2/4) ‘If I had my way, we'd NOT be talking about HS2 being thin-sliced, but about HS3, HS4, and HS5’ He also criticises the Government’s CURRENT fiscal rules saying they need to be changed w BOTH Tories + Labour needing to re-think NOW
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Channel 4 News
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"If I had my way, we'd be talking not about HS2 being thin-sliced, but about HS3, HS4 and HS5." Andy Haldane, former Bank of England chief economist, speaks to @heliaebrahimi about his support for HS2 and expansion of similar projects.
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Hard brexit: viagra pharmacy stockpiles 1.25 million pills 💊 as @theresa_may deal falters @Channel4News #brexit
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BUDGET ANALYSIS 🔹While @Jeremy_Hunt says the Government believe in tax cuts 🔹 @OBR_UK analysis shows since 2020 : 👉🏻Tax increases 🟰 £62bn 👉🏻Tax cuts 🟰 £29bn ✋🏻 less than half handed back to people #Budget2024
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BREAKING: David Cameron publishes text messages to the Senior Treasury officials that describe him: “Riding to the rescue with supply chain finance” ....in rather chummy tones #Greensill
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1 year
Great piece in the FT about how profits have rocketed for water companies amid cost of living crisis ⁦ @thameswater ⁩ UK water company dividends jump to £1.4bn despite criticism over sewage outflows via @FT
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
The Tata boss tells me he can't guarantee UK jobs or that the company won't be put into administration #TataSteel
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3 years
CONFIRMED: The Prime Minister will launch an independent review into Greensill+ its contact w Gov’nt led by legal expert Nigel Boardman in the wake of the David Cameron lobbying scandal The investigation will look at how Supply Chain Finance has been used within government
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In Richmond park Tory mood is bleak.There's going 2b a full recount less than 100 votes in it +app uncounted box was found last min #GE2017
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Helia Ebrahimi
7 years
The pound snaps back after general election is called for 8 June
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Breaking: The government announces that 87% of imports will hv zero tariffs in a no deal. CBI boss Carolyn Fairborn says on @BBCr4today this is no way to run a country and says business hasn’t been consulted #tariffs #NoDealBrexit
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8 years
Nice bit of sunshine waiting for GSK boss Sir Andrew Witty after GSK's £275m UK investment #brexit #ukgdp @tony_day
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
➡️ in fact disposable incomes have only been negative on two other occasions: 2008 = 0.4% 2013 = 1.3%
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 months
NEW: 🔹Business Department awarding a new series of contracts totalling £6.5 million to legal firms to advise on handling of Post Office scandal, according to government procurement analysists Tussell 🔹Tune in at 7pm as we breakdown staggering costs across fees + compensation
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
Im quietly proud of this piece…. Watch on - @Channel4News
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Channel 4 News
2 years
As the conflict in Ukraine continues, the West is clearly determined to push Russia to the economic periphery. Is a new economic order emerging? @heliaebrahimi reports.
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Govt worst case planning on No Deal says flow of goods through Dover and Eurotunnel could be "very signficantly reduced for months"
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
This is why the energy prices matter AND why it impacts the poorest in society the hardest (1/3) ➡️ In April the proportion of unemployment benefit spent on energy bills is set to jump to a staggering 🔌 33% ➡️ fuel poverty = 10% of income spent on energy @CitizensAdvice
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Helia Ebrahimi
3 years
TONIGHT: (1/3) We look at the Government's controversial social care plan, which one red wall MP tells me has 'angered' backbenchers. A vote is now expected on Tues w many abstaining in protest. Here r some of the numbers behind the social care changes + how impacts rich+poor...
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Breaking: Chancellor Jarvis says £1.1bn to be spent now. Here’s the breakdown: £434m on medical supplies inc stockpiles £344m more border officers etc £138m public info campaign £108m biz support
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Helia Ebrahimi
6 months
Thank you Laura Trott! 🔹The new chief secretary to the Treasury on @BBCr4today credits @bankofengland when discussing inflation reduction 🔹The way @Jeremy_Hunt + @RishiSunak hv been talking lately u wd think the Bank obsolete given Downing St says it has halved inflation
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3 years
You have to love Matt @Telegraph
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
BREAKING: UK will legally commit itself to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 says the Prime Minister. Legislation will go to Parliament tomorrow. May's bid for a legacy beyond #brexitchaos
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Helia Ebrahimi
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LATEST: Greensill/Cameron scandal - will now have 6 inquiries: 1. Boardman - announced 2. Treasury Select Committee announced 3. PACAC announced 4. CSPL - announced 5. BEIS - set to announce 6. PAC- expected to announce Plus the work of Simon Case.... @Channel4News
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
ICYMI I interviewed @RishiSunak today on the back of GDP results(1/4) ➡️ He pledged to support the PM “completely” ➡️ Denied he was a “loan shark” ➡️ talked about public sector pay restraint He's “cautiously optimistic” on the economy But here's the UK picture in 3 charts….
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🔹St Mary’s hospital in london -where the lead pharmacist shows us sewage leaks + urine trickling down fr the floor above 🔹While chair of IMB HMP Wandsworth tells us the prison’s like a ‘gulag’ 🔹These are the tales of deep cuts to capital investment since 2010 @instituteforgov
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Channel 4 News
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Crumbling Britain: '£24 billion black hole of underinvestment in infrastructure.' @heliaebrahimi reports.
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Helia Ebrahimi
1 year
Great piece on how the cost of living crisis and how women often end up bearing the brunt #CostOfLivingCrisis
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
1 year
Food prices are at a 45-year high and inflation's still soaring, and it's women who are often bearing the brunt of the cost of living crisis. We follow the lives of three women from different backgrounds living with this deepening financial inequality.
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Helia Ebrahimi
7 years
Amazing feedback for the housing development in Kensington
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Helia Ebrahimi
9 months
NEW UK GDP slumps 0.5% in July: ➡️ worse than City expected ➡️ reverses 0.5% increase in growth in June ➡️it doesn’t make for a great start to Q3 and won’t do much to lift fears that Britain might edge into recession
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Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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Our initial estimates show GDP fell 0.5% in July 2023: ▪️ services fell 0.5% ▪️ production fell 0.7% ▪️ construction fell 0.5% ➡️
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NEW Britain is growing. And not just that, the @ONS says: Real GDP per head is estimated to have increased by 0.4% in first three months of 2024, following seven consecutive quarters without positive growth. BUT before you get to excited - It is estimated to be 0.7% lower
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Helia Ebrahimi
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This morning: ➡️ The debt interest bill for Public Sector borrowing in UK surged to 3rd highest level since records began (the other two were in covid) ➡️ Interest payments = £9.8bn April 2023 vs £3.1bn last yr ➡️ Debt-to-GDP ratio = 99.2%
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Helia Ebrahimi
3 years
EXCLUSIVE: (1/5) As David Cameron defends his role at Greensill in parliament, we reveal more details the firm’s involvement in the British state ➡️ The much discussed CLBILS +CBILS guarantees from the British Business Bank - are STILL in place...
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➡️ Shadow banking is now $239 trillion - with hedge funds, money markets + real estate funds rivalling banks in how much they lend ➡️ Much of this market remains unregulated + FPC today warned sector remains vulnerable to interest rate shocks 👉🏻 What can it do? Not much.
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
The cost of being politically popular ahead of #Brexit ? £34.8bn over 5 years #Budget2016 @Channel4News
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Helia Ebrahimi
4 years
Worth remembering #oxfordvaccine is MUCH cheaper than its German + US peers costing around ➡️ $4 ➡️v $20 #BioNTech ➡️or as much as a reported $37 #Moderna Plus doesn’t require storage temperatures of -70ºC + -20ºC Which’ll make it much easier to transport around the world
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Helia Ebrahimi
6 years
WATCH @Channel4News TONIGHT as we unveil our “Brand Britain” advertising campaign with @StLukesLondon Here’s a taster of just one the campaigns: Meghan Markle as Britannia! Can this image help unite the country and sell Britain to the world? #brexit
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Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
Given £ is at $1.35 I'd say consumers (who took out 75% more FX fr Post Office this week) beat City traders at playing the market #EUref
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Helia Ebrahimi
7 years
BREAKING: Bank of England Gov says the big determinant for the success of the uk economy is its relationship w Europe not what the BoE does
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
After historic defeat, sharp words from the business community. Here's the British Chambers of Commerce: “There are no more words to describe the frustration, impatience, and growing anger amongst business after two and a half years on a high-stakes political rollercoaster ride."
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Helia Ebrahimi
2 years
As inflation hits 5.5% - the highest in 3 decades... Why is a short term price shock turning into a long term inflation problem? Here's my 30 second explainer:
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Helia Ebrahimi
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NEW: In his first interview since the sleaze scandal broke Chancellor @RishiSunak tells me the Government's actions were wrong: "We need to do better than we did last week. And we know that Q: Was it a mistake? "Of course it was a mistake...and I think that’s fair to say that."
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Breaking: crucial vote on ruling out No Deal under any circumstances is won by 321 No 278 - #brexitmayhem
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Helia Ebrahimi
6 years
Comcast outbids Rupert Murdoch’s Fox, for UK broadcaster Sky. The deal , worth £17.28 per share, values sky at over £30bn
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Helia Ebrahimi
7 years
FYI, Iran and Saudi Arabia are separate countries, so describing the escalating dispute as a 'civil war' is incorrect @montie @SkyNews
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Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Bank of England governor Mark Carney says the fact that sterling rallied after last nights historic defeat means that Brexit COULD be delayed beyond March #BrexitShambles #ukeconomy @Channel4News @bankofengland
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Helia Ebrahimi
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I feel that way about their President
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econhedge
6 years
I’ve spotted further instances of Americans tweeting about the football without adequate supervision
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
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🔹UK GDP 0% = July-Sept 🔹 September itself saw stronger growth than expected 0.2% 🔹BUT…. Don’t be fooled we’re hovering at basically flat all year which is paltry compared to how economy used to perform 🔹watch @Channel4News at 7pm tonight for interview with @Jeremy_Hunt
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
7 years
As machines take our jobs, we ask if humanity shd be worried about an existential threat
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Breaking: manufacturing in 3 months to July drops for 1st time since March 2016 says @CBItweets confirmation of the rocky economic backdrop for Boris to inherit
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
6 years
READ THIS! An incredible book that offers a rare + v human glimpse into the British justice system through 11 cases + the eyes of my beautiful freind @wigsandwords V thought provoking questions about how fair justice is
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
1 year
Such an important story ➡️ UK’s ambition to be a science power house 🟰 on shaky ground w/out access to ⁦ @HorizonEU ⁩ ➡️ it was supposed to be 1 of big wins of the NI detente ➡️ But a new dispute re our contribution cd block UK re-entry via @FT
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
1 year
NEW Inflation UP at a HIGHER pace than expected in February 10.4% 🟰 Feb Up fr 10.1% in Jan MORE than the 9.9% expected by @bankofengland Driven by higher costs for drinks in pubs and vegetables 🥦 FOOD prices rose to their highest rate in 45 years @Channel4News
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
6 years
Unbelievable: Bank of England having to defend £390,000 in travel bills for just 2 of its highflying FPC members, including a &11k ticket to Washington + £469 taxi fare
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
3 years
EXCLUSIVE: Sanjeev Gupta has defended his choices in a leaked internal memo to staff after Govn't turned down his £170m bailout request. He also denied any rule breaking in relation to the COVID support loans - with the Biz Select Committee now poised 2launch an investigation
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
5 years
Breaking: No Deal Brexit likely to mean falling pound, rising inflation and slower growth says Bank of England
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@heliaebrahimi
Helia Ebrahimi
8 years
Bank of England launches jaw dropping £170bn stimulus package and cuts interest rates to 0.25% #boe @Channel4News
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