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Speaker 1: Devin Gray UK corresponds with us now, Hi, Gevin, hither

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Speaker 1: heaven right? So how much trouble do you reckon the

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Speaker 1: government sin with these asylum hotels.

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Speaker 2: Well, I do think it's going to lead now to

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Speaker 2: a whole load of councils, following an initial council and

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Speaker 2: its successful appeal in court, that other councilors will now

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Speaker 2: join in and try and get the hotels being used

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Speaker 2: to house mail asylum seekers emptied of those asylum seekers.

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Speaker 2: So what's happened a big High Court ruling which allowed

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Speaker 2: the council in Epping, that's Essex in southeast England to

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Speaker 2: force out the asylum seekers in one particular hotel, the

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Speaker 2: Bell Hotel, has seen over the last few weeks thousands

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Speaker 2: of people protests outside, both those in support of migrants.

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Speaker 2: It has to be said that I think the vast

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Speaker 2: majority saying we should not be having in a hotel

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Speaker 2: which has a license to be a hotel single mail

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Speaker 2: asylum seekers, that nobody's done any security checks on and

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Speaker 2: all this about incidentally really because an asylum seeker living

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Speaker 2: there was charged with sexually assaulting a fourteen year old

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Speaker 2: girl and another asylum seeker there Assyrian has been charged

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Speaker 2: with assault and common assault with four alleged victims in

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Speaker 2: that case as well as you can imagine a great

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Speaker 2: deal of all feeling by local people over those cases.

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Speaker 2: They went to court with the council to say they

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be there, and amazingly they won. Now the thing

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Speaker 2: is for the government. They're using two hundred and ten

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Speaker 2: hotels across the country housing thirty two thousand asylum seekers.

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Speaker 2: So if the courts begin to be full of councils

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Speaker 2: winning this battle, it's going to be very difficult for

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Speaker 2: the government to find somewhere for those people to live.

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Speaker 2: That said, this was thought to be an exceptional case

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Speaker 2: because of those two ongoing court cases relating to this

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Speaker 2: asylum seeking hotel.

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Speaker 1: You guys worried about inflation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think it is something that is climbing. So

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Speaker 2: the figure is up to three point eight percent, driven

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Speaker 2: mainly by a jump in the price of airfares. But

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Speaker 2: that means that inflation is now at the highest level

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Speaker 2: for eighteen months, and let's not forget the target of

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Speaker 2: the Bank of England is two percent. The UK therefore

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Speaker 2: continues to have the highest rate of inflation in the

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Speaker 2: G seven actually by quite some way. America comes second.

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Speaker 2: So what caused this? Well, I mentioned in the airfares,

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Speaker 2: but let's not forget the basic costs. Food, non alcoholic

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Speaker 2: beverages have all pushed up prices and there's been quite

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Speaker 2: a steep rise in the cost of eating out. Part

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Speaker 2: of that is said because of the government's own taxes

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Speaker 2: about how the employer has to pay a tax on

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Speaker 2: each employe. Now, the Bank of England does forecast inflation

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Speaker 2: will peak higher at four percent but then begin to drop.

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Speaker 2: But don't forget they just recently reduced interest rates, which

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Speaker 2: will be an inner an inflation generator out.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it was a smart move to cut

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Speaker 1: the Space Agency?

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Speaker 2: A very unusual move and it's kind of I think

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Speaker 2: the government's tried to put this out frankly when there's

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Speaker 2: lots of other news about and it might not quite

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Speaker 2: make the headlines, but it has. The UK Space Agency

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Speaker 2: is going to cease to exist as an independent ender tee.

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Speaker 2: It'll be coming under the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

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Speaker 2: The space sector here does generate roughly forty two billion

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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars a year. It employs fifty five thousand

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Speaker 2: people of course we've only ever sent one person into

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Speaker 2: space tim Peak, but from the UK. But nevertheless, there

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Speaker 2: is a big program in the space sector here and

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Speaker 2: many scientists think this is a backward move, believe that

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Speaker 2: although the government's saying it will save money, cut duplication

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Speaker 2: in shore ministerial oversight, others saying we will lose focus

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Speaker 2: on this sector in which Britain is doing well and

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Speaker 2: growing and could lead at least to a couple of

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Speaker 2: years of stagnation.

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Speaker 1: Gavin, thank you, appreciate it. Gavin Gray, UK, corresponding.

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