Tomorrow a #Newsnight special - carers around the UK join us live as they describe having to pay back DWP overpayments of their carers’ allowance

+ Ed Davey who’s calling for debts to be written off
+ Dan White : Disability Campaigner & Author ♿️
+ Chair Work & Pensions Ctte Labour MP Sir Stephen Timms

There is a cascade of departures from Newsnight this month, as the team shrinks down for the new version. Last night was also Jake Morris’s last (as a programme editor). He’s had a fantastic 14 years on NN, & was one of the Prince Andrew interview team. Happily, given his…

Very interesting thread by Ben Chu on the UK's economic performance in comparison with other G7 countries

In National Institute of Economic and Social Research 's May Outlook, we find that growth is anaemic and productivity flatlining

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Jeremy Hunt this morning: “Since 2010, if you look at the Conservative record as a whole, we have grown faster than France, Germany, Italy and Japan. And the IMF say that over the next six years we will also grow faster than France, Italy, Germany, or Japan.”

The figures 👇

Worth noting the IMF's growth projections for the UK over the next three years are rather more optimistic than those of the Bank of England (though less optimistic than those of the Office for Budget Responsibility) 👇

I cannot see how the PM got to 'since I became Prime Minister [...we have...] removed 24k people'.

Chart below shows different types of returns. You'll easily get 24k if you include (the green) ppl who (e.g.) leave of their own accord when their visa expires. Is that 'removed'?

independent experts reviewed BBC coverage of migration, as was the case with Econ last year. some interesting findings below… 👇🏽

Just to note, this is also the first Parliament on record where we shut down the economy to stave off a pandemic, then faced a global energy price shock almost immediately after.

Think that might have had something to do with it.

#Newsnight 1030pm BBC Two

• Mark Urban on what hope there is for a ceasefire now; + what’s likely to happen next with Israel/Gaza?
• Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump’s trial
• we’ll talk to Labour, live, abt their claim the gov is gaslighting YOU over the economy
• &…