and head to head — labour's harriet harman and conservative nadine dorries.has seen its steepest rise month—on—month for two years. in october it was 2.3% — that's up from 1.7% in september. the office for national statistics says that's partly due to the increase in the energy price cap, which has meant higher costs for gas and electricity. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam, has been to visit an energy company whose customers are struggling with their bills. it's more important to find out what the customer can afford to pay. welcome to the front line of the cost of living crisis. the gas meter is in credit by 33p. for millions of households, it's never ended. i can see that we've got vulnerabilities at the property and i'm just going to run through a few of them. so, you've got children under the age of two. at 10am at the hampshire energy supplier utilita, the map of customers lights up red as prepayment meters run out of cash after leeway given overnight, and the gas and electric stop until the cash is topped up. thank you. bye bye. here, charlotte is de

your panel this evening — fromer conservative culture secretary nadine dorries and labour peer harriet harmanoo, nick. ms dorries has just writtten a book charting what she describes as the downfall of the conservative party. and it doesn't hold back. first, in the last three days, a lot has happened that may affect the progress of the war in ukraine. after us presidentjoe biden gave permission for ukraine to finally use long range american missiles inside russian territory, which it has done. he's also agreed to give ukraine anti—personnel landmines, a hugely controversial decision which has drawn criticism from human rights groups. and the bbc understands that uk—supplied storm shadow missiles have been used on targets inside russia for the first time. this footage from ukrainian social media is claimed to show their use. russia has responded by in effect lowering the threshold at which it can use nuclear weapons. will these developments change the course of the war in any way? and how worried should we all be? general david petreus is a former director of the cia under president obama. i d