Senior business and economics journalist for @BBCNews ✍🏼. 📩 Michael.Race@bbc.co.uk | Chairman @Cumnorcricket | #NUFC
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Michael Race retweeted
25 Oct 2025
Tax rises could push food prices higher, warn supermarkets bbc.in/4oAA4tt
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Michael Race retweeted
28 Jan 2025
“What wretched question have you prepared?” My surreal Q&A with Alexander Lukashenko last Sunday. He claimed his opponents had “chosen” prison or exile (in reality the authorities had chosen to target them.) Thanks @LizaShuvalova @AntonChicherov
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Michael Race retweeted
25 Oct 2024
My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer @LizaShuvalova
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Michael Race retweeted
25 Sep 2024
NEW & EXCL 🚨
Tesla owner Elon Musk not invited to next month’s UK Government International Investment Summit, after his social media posts during August riots. Musk made civil war predictions & spread [later deleted] false stories about detainment camps
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c756…
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Michael Race retweeted
24 Sep 2024
🚨INVESTIGATION🚨
How is Russia importing sanctioned British & EU cars in industrial quantities without it showing up in the trade data?
I've spent the past few months trying to find out. My & @aoifeyourell's film from the Caucasus on how it happens👇 youtube.com/watch?v=qzcGVi5C…
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Michael Race retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Bank of England expected to hold interest rates at 5% bbc.in/3BaP4uR
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Michael Race retweeted
18 Sep 2024
EXCLUSIVE from @ChrisMasonBBC and me
Keir Starmer's top aide Sue Gray is paid more than the PM
Meanwhile her junior colleagues are complaining they are underpaid
Another sign of deep tensions at the top of government bbc.com/news/articles/cx247w…
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Michael Race retweeted
23 Jul 2024
NAO confirms that HS2 without phase 2 will result in trains with less space between Manchester and Birmingham than current west Coast services, and might require demand management to dissuade passengers… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c725…
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Michael Race retweeted
17 Jul 2024
Goods prices have moved from inflation to DE-flation. It will take a while, of course, for that to relieve the pressure for most households - because the cost of living is still well up on where it was. But it was goods prices that drove it up - and now they're pulling it down:
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Michael Race retweeted
9 May 2024
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Bank of England HOLDs rates at 5.25% for sixth consecutive meeting…
but one more vote from Bank Deputy Governor for a cut… 7-2 vote
Forecast growth of 0.4% in Q1, recession over
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Michael Race retweeted
21 Apr 2024
This is how close Coventry were to winning the #FACup semi-final in the final minute of extra time. 😮
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21 Mar 2024
Join us from the Bank of England for the latest decision on interest rates
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Michael Race retweeted
12 Mar 2024
More than a fifth of UK adults not looking for work bbc.in/4a9Z7MU
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Michael Race retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Nice to see Rishi Sunak being challenged about yesterday's story revealing how the Post Office ditched a secret investigation that might have helped subpostmasters prove their innocence. I'm not sure he actually answered, but it's great he was asked: bbc.co.uk/news/business-6836…
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Michael Race retweeted
20 Feb 2024
The Post Office scandal doesn't stop with the Post Office. Read this for the low-down on a story that emerges from documents released under Freedom of Information. Assembled in a timeline, they become a little unsettling...This is top story this morning: bbc.co.uk/news/business-6814…
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15 Feb 2024
Latest ONS figures show the UK entered recession in the final three months of 2024.
15 Feb 2024
GDP is estimated to have fallen in October to December (Quarter 4):
▪️ services fell (-0.2%)
▪️ construction fell (-1.3%)
▪️ production fell (-1.0%)
➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdome…
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Michael Race retweeted
5 Feb 2024
King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will postpone public-facing duties while undergoing treatment, Buckingham Palace says bbc.in/3w5G2g6
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5 Feb 2024
New: Millions of barrels of fuel made from Russian oil are still being imported to the UK despite sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, research claims.
A so-called "loophole" means Russian crude is refined in countries such as India and the products sold to the UK.
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5 Feb 2024
Oleg Ustenko, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, called on allies of Ukraine to toughen up sanctions.
"We have to do everything possible to cut off finance to Russia. We have to make sure they do not have enough cash in their hands to continue this bloody war against us."
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5 Feb 2024
The "loophole" raises questions over whether the measures are as harsh as hoped after the International Monetary Fund recently upgraded its forecast for Russia's economic growth in 2024 from 1.1% to 2.6%.
Full story: bbc.co.uk/news/business-6801…
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