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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that Britain needed to build new gas-fired power stations to ensure energy security. GDP grew by 0.2 per cent in January. The number of people of working age classed as economically inactive rose to 9.25 million, compared with 8.55 million in February 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics. Among those aged 16 to 34, economic inactivity was rising; among those aged 35 to 64 it had fallen. Long-term sickness accounted for 2.7 million people not in work, 600,000 more than four years ago. The National Health Service employed more than two million for the first time, more than a third of public-sector workers. Police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes from Legacy Independent Funeral Directors at Hull and Beverley and arrested two people on suspicion of prevention of lawful and decent burial. No new prescriptions for puberty blockers will be given routinely to children at gender identity clinics, NHS England said.
Lee Anderson, an MP who was a former Conservative party deputy chairman (until suspended from the party after saying that Islamists had ‘got control of [Sadiq] Khan and they’ve got control of London’) joined the Reform party.
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