10 Jul 2025

UK: Macron meets the King

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 10 July 2025

 

UK correspondent Hugo Gye talks about the pomp and ceremony of the French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit, where he used a speech to push for a more aggressive distancing of Europe from the US.

A new report by the Office for Budget Responsibility finds the outlook dire for British finances, forecasting national debt to grow to 270 percent of GDP by the 2070s if nothing is changed.

And Wimbledon is drawing to an end, but not before temperatures are set to hit the 30s again.

Hugo Gye is Political Editor of The i Paper