with me is lawrence gosling, editor—in—chief what investment.or—in—chief what investment. you make of alll comments, what you make of all this? these comments, i'd rather be dead in a ditch. who could forget the backdrop yesterday? the whole of west yorkshire police out in force. as a backdrop to those comments. where do we go from here? it feels like a lion that with all become too familiar with the boris johnson. it's a sale —— study flippant line about a serious issue for the peace critics of his own, you are already ina bit critics of his own, you are already in a bit of critics of his own, you are already ina bit ofa critics of his own, you are already in a bit of a ditch because his... the way you have this we could play out, we think it hasn't played out, i was to become back on monday for the next round. it's almost, it's become a personality issue for the electorate here in the uk, you either love mrjohnson or boris as many people call him or you loathe him and you'd happily see him in a ditch. but his personal reputation, his personal

lawrence gosling is editor—in—chief of what investment.rse, time is ticking on at the same time. investment is installing, business have to make decisions. we have heard a repeat from the last couple of months, a lack of certainty. we have a 31st of october date and hopefully on monday we will get the date of the general election so, again, whether it is in dover or most likely in november, it gives the community, the business community something. a bit more stability as we go through the imaginations. ——in october. the reason more certainty on the key dates emerging and that is what the business community want but, ultimately, whether it is a hard no deal or whatever the other variation is, most businesses do not know what environment they will be on in. -- working in. businesses are having to stop and prepare —— stockpile and prepare. they still have customers. they still have inventory and want to be trading come the first of november. mark carney, the governor of the bank of england, saying the economy is grinding to a halt. no growth

let us get a wider perspective on this and talk to lawrence gosling.livers of light and some positivity in the minutes as well. it was, the last quarter, the bank of england suggesting that growth in the uk economy will be sort of flat but it thinks it will be pick up and be in positive territory from the next three months so again, territory from the next three months so again, over the course of the year, there are saying they think the uk economy will don't grow but as you were saying they keep signalling that whatever deal the uk comes outwith, in the brexit negotiations, could really be the sort of key determinant of the longer term path of the economy. and of course what they were saying as the boss of burger king was saying in the last hour, is uncertainty thatis in the last hour, is uncertainty that is the biggest problem in all of this whatever happens but with regards to interest rates, we had the federal reserve over in the states cutting them earlier in the day. other banks round the world moving in that direction, where do you see the uk c