UK public facing ‘difficult times’ says Bank of England chief economist in hint at bigger rate rises – business live | Business

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The European Commission has raided several online food and grocery delivery firms in two EU countries over concerns they may be in a cartel, which could mean hefty fines for the businesses if they are found guilty of breaking competition law.

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The EC, which acts as the competition enforcer in the 27-country bloc, did not name the companies. It said:

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The investigation concerns an alleged agreement or concerted practice to share national markets for the online ordering and delivery of food groceries and other consumer goods in the European Union.

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Just Eat Takeaway, the biggest online meal delivery company operating in the EU, said it was not aware of an EU investigation into its activities. A spokesperson for Uber, which owns Uber Eats, told Reuters it had not been targeted.

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The battered pound remains under selling pressure, amid recession fears and as Boris Johnson is clinging to power despite a flurry of resignations, including the chancellor, the health secretary and others in more junior roles.

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Britain’s financial services minister John Glen also quit today in protest against Boris Johnson. News just in that Victoria Atkins, a junior home office minister, has resigned from the government. The conservative MP Tom Hunt said he had submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister, saying: “Events of the past week have been the last straw that has broken the camel’s back”.

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Sterling has slipped 0.3% against the dollar to $1.1918, remaining near Tuesday’s low of $1.1899, its lowest level since March 2020. Experts said the crisis at 10 Downing Street meant further turmoil in the days and weeks ahead.

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Adam Cole, head of currency strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told Reuters:

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Markets have now all but written off Boris Johnson as PM.

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There is no real frontrunner to replace him and the potential PMs run to a dozen different people, without a view on that it’s difficult to say what Boris’s replacement would mean for policy.

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The Bank of England warned on Tuesday that the outlook for the UK and global economy had “deteriorated materially”.

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The euro has hit a fresh two-decade low as fears over rising energy prices and potential shortages outweighed relief over the end of a Norwegian oil and gas worker strike. The single currency fell 0.7% to $1.0194.

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Here’s a round-up of today’s main stories.

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The Norwegian government has stepped in to end the oil and gas worker strike, and this has brought relief to European markets.

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The Bank of England will “deliver inflation back to its 2% target”, its chief economist has pledged, despite the challenges it faces from rising food and energy costs and a fall in the value of the pound making both more expensive.

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More than 2m UK households have missed a bill payment every month this year as people struggle to keep their heads above water in a “relentless cost of living crisis”, according to new research from consumer group Which?.

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The new chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, is continuing his rapid recent ascent which saw him only become a junior minister in 2018, and first enter the cabinet, as education secretary, less than a year ago – a profile by our political correspondent Peter Walker.

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The British government has delayed the decision on whether the UK’s largest producer of semiconductors can be bought by a Chinese-owned manufacturer by another month and a half.

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The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, had been expected to make a decision by Tuesday on the purchase of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia, a Dutch firm wholly owned by China’s Wingtech.

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Kwarteng has sought an extra 45 working days to scrutinise the controversial £63m deal, in a move first reported by the Financial Times.

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Canada is to throw out about 13.6m doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine because it couldn’t find any takers for it either at home or abroad.

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Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20m doses of its vaccine, and 2.3 million Canadians received at least one dose of it, mostly between March and June 2021.

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Ben & Jerry’s has sued its parent Unilever plc to block the sale of its Israeli business to a local licensee, saying it was inconsistent with its values to sell its ice-cream in the occupied West Bank.

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The UK’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Amazon on whether the US tech giant is hurting competition by giving its own sellers an unfair advantage over third-party sellers on the marketplace.

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Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority said it opened an investigation on Tuesday on concerns Amazon’s practices relating to sellers on its domestic marketplace may be anti-competitive and could result in a worse deal for customers.

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The investigation comes after the European Commission decided to investigate over similar concerns.

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Some of the products on Amazon’s marketplace are supplied through its own retail business. However, a large proportion are supplied by third-party sellers. Amazon provides services to these sellers, including those that are essential to make sales, such as matching sellers with consumers, the CMA said.

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The British regulator said its investigation would focus on three main areas, including how the Seattle-based company collects and uses third-party seller data and how it sets the eligibility criteria for selling under the Prime label.

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Sarah Cardell, general counsel at the CMA, said:

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Millions of people across the UK rely on Amazon’s services for fast delivery of all types of products at the click of a button. This is an important area so it’s right that we carefully investigate whether Amazon is using third-party data to give an unfair boost to its own retail business and whether it favours sellers who use its logistics and delivery services – both of which could weaken competition.

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Thousands of UK businesses use Amazon to sell their products and it is important they are able to operate in a competitive market. Any loss of competition is a loss to consumers and could lead to them paying more for products, being offered lower quality items or having less choice.

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A formal investigation will allow us to consider this matter properly.

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However, the euro is still trading at a two-decade low against the dollar, at $1.0232, and the pound also remains under pressure following two key cabinet resignations and a flurry of other departures, after a slew of self-inflicted scandals raised serious questions about Boris Johnson’s future as prime minister. Sterling briefly ventured above the $1.20 mark this morning, but is now down again, slipping 0.2% to $1.1934.

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In London, the FTSE 100 index is 91 points ahead at 7,116, a 1.3% gain. The German and French stock markets have gained more than 1% and Italy is up 0.4%.

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The Norwegian government has stepped in to end a strike that had threatened supplies of gas to Britain. The labour dispute had shut down oilfields and gasfields and was expected to cut Norway’s gas supplies by almost 60% by the weekend.

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At the same time, Goldman Sachs raised its forecasts for European natural gas prices, saying that a complete restoration of flows via the Nordstream 1 pipeline following upcoming maintenance work is no longer the most likely scenario.

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It said a prolonged reduced flow rate is more likely going forward, as the required turbine repairs could take longer than expected. The US investment bank is now forecasting Dutch gas prices to average €153 per megawatt hour in the third quarter, €121 in the fourth quarter and €138 next summer, Reuters reported.

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Today, the Dutch wholesale gas contract for September delivery has dropped 7.5% to €161 per megawatt hour.

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The construction sectors in the UK and eurozone have weakened further.

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The latest purchasing manager index from S&P Global and CIPS, a closely-watched monthly survey, showed that UK construction expanded at the weakest pace in nine months and new orders increased at the lowest rate since October. Worries about the economic outlook led to a sharp decline in business expectations for the year ahead, taking optimism to the lowest levels since July 2020. Housebuilding fell for the first time since May 2020.

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The headline index fell to 52.6 in June from 56.4 in May, still indicating expansion, but the weakest since last September. Housebuilding was the weakest area of construction activity for the fourth month in a row. The sub-index fell to 49.3, below the 50 mark that divides expansion from contraction.

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Tim Moore, economics director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, which compiles the survey said: “

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The gloomy UK business outlook and worsening consumer demand due to the cost of living crisis combined to put the brakes on construction growth in June. Commercial construction saw a considerable loss of momentum as clients exercised greater caution on new spending, while long-term infrastructure projects ensured a relatively resilient trend for civil engineering activity.

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House building has expanded more quickly than the rest of the construction sector over the course of the pandemic, but now finds itself as the worst-performing broad category so far in 2022.

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Construction companies appear braced for a difficult second half of the year as new order growth and business activity expectations fell again in June, reflecting inflation concerns, higher interest rates and less favourable domestic economic conditions.

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Latest #PMI data pointed to a slowdown in UK construction activity with the #PMI at 52.6 (May: 56.4), it's lowest since September 2021. Housing activity fell for the first time in over 2 years. Read more: https://t.co/HOKem9CWYG pic.twitter.com/JBpmuACv9d

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The Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill has described soaring inflation as a “very unsatisfactory situation” and hinted at bigger rate rises.

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Inflation has hit a 40-year high of 9.1% and the Bank forecasts a further rise to 11% by October.

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An immediate issue for monetary policy makers is whether the pace of policy tightening now needs to change.

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For an MPC [monetary policy committee] member charged with achieving the inflation target of 2% – someone in ‘the price stability business’, if you like – this is obviously a very unsatisfactory situation. But any discomfort I feel in that regard of course pales in comparison with the challenges facing those most directly exposed to the current cost of living crisis.

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We recognise the hardship associated with elevated inflation rates. For those who spend a higher proportion of their income on energy and food – unfortunately, a group particularly numerous among the less well off – recent price rises have imposed a significant squeeze on their real incomes. These are difficult times for many people.

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Our current experience is therefore a salutary reminder of the importance of price stability – what makes the MPC remaining ‘in the price stability business’ so crucial. It is essential we bring inflation back down to target, so as to reduce the uncertainties facing households and allow firms to plan for the future. Achieving price stability serves as an anchor for wider macroeconomic stability and prosperity.

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The Bank has raised interest rates five times since December, by a quarter of a percentage point each time, to 1.25%.

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Pill said the monetary policy committee is divided, but he is prepared to vote for a bigger rate hike, depending on the data.

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As the patterns of individual votes on Bank Rate in recent months reveals, unanimity about the short-term interest rate outlook no longer exists.

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Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi has done more media interviews. He said the government needed to rebuild and grow the struggling economy and that he would look at all options, including tax cuts.

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When asked whether he would cut taxes, he told Sky News:

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I will look at everything, there is nothing off the table.

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He said 2023 was shaping up to be tough and he would focus on the cost of living squeeze on households. He also hinted at a rethink of his predecessor Rishi Sunak’s plan to increase taxes on businesses next year. He told the BBC:

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Of course I will be looking at where else can I make sure the economy remains competitive and dynamic with our European neighbours and the rest of the world as well. Nothing is off the table.

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But he stressed the need for “fiscal discipline” and said the government would have to be careful about increasing public sector pay, which could drive inflation even higher. He told Sky News:

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The important thing is to get inflation under control, be fiscally responsible.

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He said it was important to remember that higher inflation pushes up debt servicing costs for the government.

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Here are more comments from the Bank of England’s deputy governor Jon Cunliffe, who said this morning that the central bank “will act” to ensure high inflation doesn’t become embedded.

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UK inflation rose to a 40-year high of 9.1% in May, and the Bank expects it to reach 11% in the autumn. The central bank is targeting a rate of inflation of 2%, and in response to soaring prices it has hiked interest rates five times since December. He told BBC radio 4’s Today programme:

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It’s our job to make sure that as this inflationary shock passes through the economy we don’t find that leaves us with inflation being the new normal, the sort of embedded psychology. People can have confidence that we will act to make sure that that doesn’t happen.

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Cunliffe also acknowledged the impact of the cost of living crisis, and that the economy is slowing.

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What we expect is that the cost of living squeeze will actually hit people’s spending and that will start to cool the economy, and we can see signs that the economy is already slowing.

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He said most of the forces driving up inflation were from abroad, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February has sent energy and food prices spiralling – and that the Bank would act to avoid a wage-price spiral.

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Those prices will not continue to rise forever and as that shock passes, the economic conditions in the country have to be ones that do not allow the wage-price spiral to develop… and that’s where we’ll do what’s necessary.

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The Bank has been criticised for being slow to act to curb soaring inflation, but Cunliffe said:

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We’ve increased rates at every meeting for the last five meetings. I don’t think that has ever happened actually before in the history of the monetary policy committee.

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Stock markets in London and the rest of Europe have opened higher after yesterday’s losses.

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The FTSE 100 index in London is trading 92 points higher at 7,118, a 1.3% gain, following yesterday’s near-3% slump. Germany’s Dax is up 1.6%, France’s CAC opened 1.3% higher, and Spain’s Ibex and Italy’s FTSE MiB both advanced 1.1%.

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Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the world economy, the financial markets, and the cost of living crisis.

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UK stock markets are expected to stage a cautious recovery today after their worst single-day performance in three weeks yesterday amid recession fears, as investors brace for months of political uncertainty.

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Boris Johnson’s premiership is hanging by a thread, after the chancellor, the health secretary and a string of Conservative aides dramatically quit last night, dealing a crushing blow to his authority following a slew of self-inflicted scandals.

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After Sajid Javid, the health secretary, and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, both resigned, they were replaced by Steve Barclay and Nadhim Zahawi (previously education secretary) respectively. And Michelle Donelan has become the new education secretary.

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Stock futures suggest the FTSE 100 index could rise more than 1% when London opens, a partial recovery from yesterday’s 2.9% tumble.

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The political drama added to the selling pressure on the pound. Sterling already struggled yesterday amid recession fears, and is currently trading at a two-year low of $1.19, down 0.3% on the day. The dollar, seen as a safer currency, as benefited.

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Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote Bank, says:

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The political turmoil in the UK certainly added to the selling pressure on the sterling, however the reason why cable slipped below the 1.20 mark was a booming US dollar, across the board.

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Stock markets in London and across Europe were hit by rising worries about a European recession yesterday, and the euro slumped to a two-decade low, as a jump in natural gas prices intensified the strain on the European economy. European futures point at a positive start this morning, but gains remain fragile.

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We have taken a look at the favourites to succeed Johnson as prime minister.

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And here is what other papers say:

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Meanwhile, Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunliffe has said that the central bank “will act” to ensure that the recent surge in inflation does not become embedded in the economy. He told BBC radio this morning:

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It’s our job to make sure that as this inflationary shock passes through the economy we don’t find that leaves us with inflation being the new normal, the sort of embedded psychology.

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People can have confidence that we will act to make sure that that doesn’t happen.

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The Agenda

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• 8.30am BST: Eurozone S&P Global construction PMI for June

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• 9.10am BST: Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill speaks

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• 9.30am BST: UK S&P Global/CIPS Construction PMI for June (forecast: 55)

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• 10am BST: Eurozone retail sales for May

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• 1.30pm BST: Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunliffe speaks

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• 2.45pm BST: US S&P Global composite and services PMIs final for June

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• 3pm BST: US ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI for June (forecast: 54.3)

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Pound sinks amid political turmoil

With the political turmoil deepening, it’s no wonder the pound is sinking further. It is now down 0.6% at $1.1883. still the lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic, 19 March 2020.

Boris Johnson said during prime minister’s questions:

Hang on in there – that’s what I’m going to do.

Boris Johnson believes he still has support of majority of Tory MPs, No10 says

PM will contest a confidence vote if one is called

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) July 6, 2022

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Boris Johnson believes he still has support of majority of Tory MPs, No10 says

PM will contest a confidence vote if one is called

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) July 6, 2022

Yet another resignation…. Stuart Andrew has stood down as housing minister.

It is with sadness that I am resigning as Housing Minister.

I pay tribute to all my ministerial colleagues, officials, and civil servants in the Department and the wider sector.

I look forward to continuing to serve my constituents in Pudsey, Horsforth, and Aireborough. pic.twitter.com/wTnrr9rcSu

— Stuart Andrew (@StuartAndrew) July 6, 2022

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It is with sadness that I am resigning as Housing Minister.

I pay tribute to all my ministerial colleagues, officials, and civil servants in the Department and the wider sector.

I look forward to continuing to serve my constituents in Pudsey, Horsforth, and Aireborough. pic.twitter.com/wTnrr9rcSu

— Stuart Andrew (@StuartAndrew) July 6, 2022

Sterling has touched a fresh two-year low, losing 0.5% of its value to $1.1894, the lowest since March 2020.

Separately, JustEat has struck a deal with Amazon under which Amazon Prime members get free access to Grubhub deliveries in the US. The deal also gives Amazon a stake of up to 15% in Just Eat’s struggling US meal delivery business Grubhub, amid speculation that Just Eat wants to sell it.

Amazon has agreed to take a 2% stake in Grubhub and will offer its Prime members access to the service for one year. Amazon will also receive warrants over up to a further 13% of Grubhub’s equity, which will vest if certain performance conditions are met. This means it could end up owning 15% of the US meal delivery business.

The deal is a major relief for Just Eat Takeaway, Europe’s largest meals company, whose stock has fallen 70% this year. Shareholders have urged the company to sell or find a partner for Grubhub, which it acquired last year for $5.8bn in shares.

European Commission raids online food delivery firms

The European Commission has raided several online food and grocery delivery firms in two EU countries over concerns they may be in a cartel, which could mean hefty fines for the businesses if they are found guilty of breaking competition law.

The EC, which acts as the competition enforcer in the 27-country bloc, did not name the companies. It said:

The investigation concerns an alleged agreement or concerted practice to share national markets for the online ordering and delivery of food groceries and other consumer goods in the European Union.

Just Eat Takeaway, the biggest online meal delivery company operating in the EU, said it was not aware of an EU investigation into its activities. A spokesperson for Uber, which owns Uber Eats, told Reuters it had not been targeted.

Meanwhile, the resignations just keep coming. Jo Churchill, a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has just quit. She said in her resignation letter:

Recent events have shown integrity, competence and judgement are all essential to the role of prime minister, while a jocular self-serving approach is bound to have its limitations.

Our beloved country is facing an uncertain future and strong headwinds, a clear self-less vision is needed.

It is with a heavy heart that I have this morning tendered my resignation to the Prime Minister. I will not be doing media interviews on this matter. pic.twitter.com/gjFCVCrXEy

— Jo Churchill MP (@Jochurchill_MP) July 6, 2022

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It is with a heavy heart that I have this morning tendered my resignation to the Prime Minister. I will not be doing media interviews on this matter. pic.twitter.com/gjFCVCrXEy

— Jo Churchill MP (@Jochurchill_MP) July 6, 2022

Boris Johnson is facing MPs at prime minister’s questions right now. He said the government should not walk away in a crisis, and that they had a plan and were getting on with it.

He said the economy was facing tough times and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the worst war in Europe in 80 years.

That is exactly the moment that you’d expect a government to continue with its work, not to walk away, and to get on with its job.

Pound at two-year low, euro hits fresh two-decade low

The battered pound remains under selling pressure, amid recession fears and as Boris Johnson is clinging to power despite a flurry of resignations, including the chancellor, the health secretary and others in more junior roles.

Britain’s financial services minister John Glen also quit today in protest against Boris Johnson. News just in that Victoria Atkins, a junior home office minister, has resigned from the government. The conservative MP Tom Hunt said he had submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister, saying: “Events of the past week have been the last straw that has broken the camel’s back”.