UK correspondent Matthew Parris talks to Kathryn about Sir Keir Starmer's moves to stop local residents blocking housebuilding as Labour's first King's Speech approaches.
Inflation has held steady in the UK but other factors are complicating a rate cut for the Bank of England while there is heartbreak for a British family whose son's body has been found after going missing four weeks ago on a Spanish island.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the end of his cabinet's first meeting in Downing Street in London on 6 July 2024. Photo: CLAUDIA GRECO / AFP
