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Inflation would reach 18.6 per cent by January and the energy price cap £5,816 in April, according to a forecast by Citi, the investment bank. An annual National Grid exercise simulating a gas supply emergency has been extended from two days to four in September. Workers at Felixstowe, Suffolk, Britain’s biggest container port, handling 48 per cent of traffic, went on strike for eight days. Strikes by Scottish dustmen spread from Edinburgh. Barristers belonging to the Criminal Bar Association voted to go on an indefinite strike in England and Wales after their demand for a 25 per cent increase in pay for legal aid work was denied. A man was charged with the murder of Rico Burton (a cousin of the boxer Tyson Fury), who was stabbed to death in Altrincham at 3 a.m. on Sunday. A man was charged with the murder of Thomas O’Halloran, 87, who was stabbed as he rode his mobility scooter at Greenford, Middlesex.
On a single day, 1,295 migrants crossed the Channel in small craft, the highest number yet seen. It brought the total for August to 6,168 and for the year to 22,560. Lord Harrington of Watford, the minister for refugees, called for the monthly government payment to families hosting Ukrainian refugees to double to £700, lest the pressure of inflation make them give up. British Airways was to cut 10,000 short-haul flights to and from Heathrow between late October and March; the airport had already extended its limit of 100,000 passengers a day until the end of October.
Rishi Sunak, the lagging contender for the leadership of the Conservative party and hence prime-ministership, said that he would not want to serve in the cabinet of Liz Truss, even though earlier in the process both had assented to the prospect of giving the other a position in government.
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