Why is the UK struggling more than other countries? - BBC

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By Faisal Islam

Economics editor

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In isolation, a modest slide in the economy of 0.2% over three months might fall into the category of regrettable but unsurprising in the circumstances.

But looking ahead, the Bank of England and others anticipate that this is the first of a run of several quarters marking the start of a lengthy recession. And looking backwards now, it is very concerning that the UK economy remains smaller than just before the pandemic three years ago.

Not only is the UK the only major economy to be shrinking in the three months to September, but it is the only one not to have recovered in full the chunk of the economy lost during the pandemic. Amazingly, the UK still has an economy 0.4% smaller than in the quarter before the pandemic in Q4 2019.

That is not the case for the US (+4.2%), Canada, Italy or France, by some margin, and for Japan and Germany too. If forecasts are right about a prolonged recession, it could be half a decade without growth encompassing the whole of this Parliament, and the whole of the period since actual Brexit.

So yes there are many pressures that are global, from Covid to the European energy squeeze. But there are real questions now as to why the UK has been hit more than most.

And while some of the monthly hit in September can be explained by the extra bank holiday, the hit from the mini-budget financial chaos only affected a few days of these figures.

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The official rationale is that the UK is being buffeted both by the European energy shock arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and at the same time, by the US-style overheating jobs market.

While the EU is more physically dependent on actual supplies of Russian gas, the UK is more dependent on imported gas full stop, and the price paid for it has rocketed for everyone.

That energy shock has made the country unavoidably poorer, and yet, despite the weak economy, the UK is enduring significant labour supply challenges, holding it back more. Indeed the data shows "global challenges" are hitting the UK harder than other major economies - that Britain has a bespoke supply problem, worsening economic trade-offs.

The first year of the pandemic damaged the UK more than most economies. This was the textbook expectation from many economic experts of the government's approach to post-Brexit policy. It is more difficult for small businesses, especially, to trade with Europe, and the UK, by design, now has more limited access to pools of European workers. As a result the economy is less productive, less resilient, less flexible and less responsive.

As interest rates continue to rise and taxes and spending are squeezed further at next week's Autumn Statement, the economic pressures will only intensify. There are difficult trade-offs for all - the Bank of England, the government and of course households. But they cannot all be blamed on "global factors".

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Why is the UK struggling more than any other big country? - BBC

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By Faisal Islam

Economics editor

@faisalislam

In isolation, a modest slide in the economy of 0.2% over three months might fall into the category of regrettable but unsurprising in the circumstances.

But looking ahead, the Bank of England and others anticipate that this is the first of a run of several quarters marking the start of a lengthy recession. And looking backwards now, it is very concerning that the UK economy remains smaller than just before the pandemic three years ago.

Not only is the UK the only major economy to be shrinking in the three months to September, but it is the only one not to have recovered in full the chunk of the economy lost during the pandemic. Amazingly, the UK still has an economy 0.4% smaller than in the quarter before the pandemic in Q4 2019.

That is not the case for the US (+4.2%), Canada, Italy or France, by some margin, and for Japan and Germany too. If forecasts are right about a prolonged recession, it could be half a decade without growth encompassing the whole of this Parliament, and the whole of the period since actual Brexit.

So yes there are many pressures that are global, from Covid to the European energy squeeze. But there are real questions now as to why the UK has been hit more than most.

And while some of the monthly hit in September can be explained by the extra bank holiday, the hit from the mini-budget financial chaos only affected a few days of these figures.

• Recession looms as UK economy starts to shrink
• What is a recession and how could it affect me?
• Five things we now know about the UK economy

The official rationale is that the UK is being buffeted both by the European energy shock arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and at the same time, by the US-style overheating jobs market.

While the EU is more physically dependent on actual supplies of Russian gas, the UK is more dependent on imported gas full stop, and the price paid for it has rocketed for everyone.

That energy shock has made the country unavoidably poorer, and yet, despite the weak economy, the UK is enduring significant labour supply challenges, holding it back more. Indeed the data shows "global challenges" are hitting the UK harder than other major economies - that Britain has a bespoke supply problem, worsening economic trade-offs.

The first year of the pandemic damaged the UK more than most economies. This was the textbook expectation from many economic experts of the government's approach to post-Brexit policy. It is more difficult for small businesses, especially, to trade with Europe, and the UK, by design, now has more limited access to pools of European workers. As a result the economy is less productive, less resilient, less flexible and less responsive.

As interest rates continue to rise and taxes and spending are squeezed further at next week's Autumn Statement, the economic pressures will only intensify. There are difficult trade-offs for all - the Bank of England, the government and of course households. But they cannot all be blamed on "global factors".

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2022-11-11 10:16:08Z
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Ukrainia fears 'city of death' as troops approach Kherson - Euronews

Ukrainian troops are reportedly already in the outskirts of the city of Kherson on Friday morning, after Russia began withdrawing its troops. 

But officials warned that Russian landmines could render Kherson a "city of death," and that key infrastructure sites might be rigged to explode as Ukrainian soldiers as they enter the city. 

Ukrainian officials acknowledged Moscow’s forces had no choice but to flee Kherson, yet they remained cautious, fearing an ambush. With Ukrainian officials tight-lipped with their assessments, reporters not present and spotty communications, it was difficult to know what was happening in the port city, where the residents who remained after tens of thousands fled were afraid to leave their homes.

A forced pullout from Kherson -- the only provincial capital Moscow captured after invading Ukraine in February -- would mark one of Russia’s worst war setbacks. Recapturing the city, which had a pre-war population of 280,000, could provide Ukraine a launching pad for supplies and troops to try to win back other lost territory in the south, including Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.

Ukrainian forces seem to be scoring more battlefield successes elsewhere in the Kherson region and closing in on the city. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday night the pace has increased so much that residents “are now checking almost every hour where our units have reached and where else our national flag was raised.”

The armed forces commander-in-chief, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, said Kyiv’s forces have advanced 36.5 kilometers (22.7 miles) and retaken 41 villages and towns since Oct. 1 in the province, which the Kremlin has illegally annexed. That included 12 settlements on Wednesday alone.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Russian troops laid mines throughout Kherson as they withdrew to turn it into a “city of death” and predicted they would shell it after relocating across the Dnieper River.

From these new positions, the Kremlin could try to escalate the nine-month-long war, which US assessments showed may already have killed or wounded tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Arkadiy Dovzhenko, who fled Kherson in June, said his grandparents still living there told him Thursday that “the Russians were bringing a lot of equipment into the town and also mining every inch of it.”

Another resident said Kherson was deserted Thursday and that explosions could be heard from around Antonivskiy Bridge -- a key Dnieper River crossing that Ukrainian forces have repeatedly bombarded.

“Life in the city seems to have stopped. Everyone has disappeared somewhere and no one knows what will happen next," said Konstantin, a resident whose last name was withheld for security reasons.

He said Russian flags have disappeared from the city’s administrative buildings, and no signs remain of the Russian military personnel who earlier moved into the apartments of evacuated residents. Russian state news agency Tass reported that emergency services such as police officers and medical workers would leave along with the last Russian troops.

Zelenskyy said on Thursday night his forces were racing to remove land mines from 170,000 square meters nationwide and planned also to do so in Kherson. A spokeswoman for Ukraine's southern military, said on Ukrainian television that resistance forces working behind enemy lines “carefully collect information" about critical infrastructure threatened by mines.

Why are the Russians withdrawing?

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered a troop withdrawal from Kherson and nearby areas on Wednesday after his top general in Ukraine reported that a loss of supply routes during Ukraine's southern counteroffensive made a defence “futile.”

Shoigu's ministry reported Thursday a “manoeuvre of units of the Russian group” to the Dnieper River's eastern bank, also known as its left bank.

On Thursday, Ukrainian officials appeared to soften the scepticism they had expressed over whether the Russians were really on the run or trying to trap Ukraine's soldiers. “The enemy had no other choice but to resort to fleeing,” armed forces chief Zaluzhny said, because Kyiv’s army destroyed supply systems and disrupted Russia’s local military command.

Still, senior Ukrainian officials expressed caution in public statements about Russia's intentions in Kherson. 

Alexander Khara, of the Kyiv-based think tank Center for Defense Strategies, echoed those concerns, saying he remained fearful that Russian forces could destroy a dam upriver from Kherson and flood the city's approaches. The former Ukrainian diplomat also warned of booby traps and other possible dangers.

“I would be surprised if the Russians had not set up something, some surprises for Ukraine,” Khara said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who just over a month ago celebrated the annexation of Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions and vowed to defend them by any means, has not commented on the withdrawal.

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Military briefing: how Russia's retreat from Kherson changes the war in Ukraine - Financial Times

The colourful billboards erected by Russia’s occupying forces in the Ukrainian city of Kherson boasted that it would be a Russian city “forever”. In reality, that lasted just more than eight months.

Under sustained bombardment from a Ukrainian counter-offensive that started on August 29, Russian troops at risk of encirclement were ordered to withdraw from the city on Wednesday.

Their retreat marks a major victory for Kyiv in the battle for south-east Ukraine, one that robs Moscow of its biggest military achievement of the war and changes the calculus for both sides as the conflict heads into winter.

Ukrainian and western officials have speculated for weeks that a Russian withdrawal from the town, strategic for its proximity to Crimea, was imminent, and were quick to urge caution regarding the implications of Moscow’s retreat while playing down any hopes that it could spark a rapid advance.

But analysts said that control of the city would expand Kyiv’s options for inflicting greater damage on Russia’s diminished invasion aims and its ability to hold the territory it still controls.

“Kherson is important to both sides,” said one western intelligence official.

Even if Kherson is evacuated quickly, it is very unlikely to spark a rout of Russian lines. By retreating from the city, which sits on the northwestern (or right) bank of the Dnipro river close to its Black Sea delta, Russia aims to reinforce its defences on the other side of the river, where it has been building defensive lines for weeks, reinforced by natural defences such as canals and wet, marshy ground.

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As such, western officials expect that while Ukraine will be able to recapture the Dnipro’s north-western bank by the end of November, Russia will be able to hold the other side.

Speaking at an event in New York, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff Mark Milley, estimated Russia had up to 30,000 troops north of the Dnipro in that area. “This is going to take them days and perhaps even weeks to pull those forces south of that river,” he said.

Aside from its symbolic value as the only provincial capital city captured by Russia in its more than eight-month-long invasion, Kherson has major worth as a strategic location from where Ukraine can recalibrate its counter-offensive.

The wider Kherson region links mainland Ukraine to the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea, and the city lies roughly 100km from the isthmus that provides Russia a narrow land corridor to resupply its troops from its large bases there.

That would put three important roads that lie on the land bridge and a number of Russian logistic sites and ammunition dumps within range of Ukraine’s western-supplied high-precision rocket system — threatening a critical supply route that has fuelled Russia’s war effort from the peninsula.

The Kherson province located on the right bank of the Dnipro river is “strategically important from a military standpoint as it gives us firepower control of the roads from Crimea used as supply lines by the Russians”, said Serhiy Kuzan, an adviser at Ukraine’s defence ministry. “It will be a very big blow to the Russian forces.”

That proximity to Crimea could also see Russia shift more forces south to protect the approach to the annexed peninsula, a territory that president Vladimir Putin could never countenance a retreat from: his most significant military conquest in his more than two-decade-long rule, Crimea is also home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

Kherson, captured in March, “is the one objective that Russia achieved among all its plans”, said Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary. “And now they’ve given it up. Which must beg the question in the Kremlin: what was it all for, all those lost Russian lives?”

Military analysts said the way Russia is to withdraw will be key to Moscow’s longer-term prospects in south-east Ukraine. A Ukrainian counter-offensive in north-east Ukraine in September sparked a chaotic retreat, decimating Russia’s lines and military capacities.

“If Russia can withdraw its units without heavy losses, it will probably be in a stronger position to hold its existing front lines,” said Rob Lee, senior fellow at the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. “That is why [how] the withdrawal is conducted is critical.”

Thursday’s development comes as the US assessed that both sides have sustained heavy losses. Milley said more than 100,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and wounded in Ukraine, with Kyiv likely suffered similar losses.

Ukraine has informed its allies that it plans to advance slowly and carefully as its troops move to retake Kherson, according to one western diplomat, wary of Russian troops who may remain in the city and the greater threat from the other bank of the river. Ukrainian officials urged caution on Wednesday over the reality of the Russian withdrawal, fearing a trap.

As he announced the planned retreat, Sergei Surovikin, appointed commander of Russia’s invasion force last month, claimed Russia had actually been successfully repelling Ukrainian attacks and inflicting significant losses on Kyiv’s troops.

Surovikin said the withdrawal would “free up forces and equipment that will be used to take actions, including of an offensive nature, in other areas where the operation is being conducted”.

Russian commanders “clearly took a decision that they wanted to remove themselves behind the natural border [of the river]”, said Wallace. “A perfectly logical measure.”

Kuzan said that while Russia has “already bade farewell to the city of Kherson as an administrative centre” having in past weeks evacuated its non-military staff and officials, it has simultaneously beefed up troop levels around the city and along the front lines on the west side of the Dnipro.

“Their best ground forces remained. But they moved their artillery on the east side of the Dnipro river, from where they can reach the front lines,” Kuzan said.

Even if the conflict in south-east Ukraine sinks into a stalemate over winter, as some western officials have suggested, Kherson’s recapture will give Kyiv leverage as it lobbies western governments to step up supplies of arms and ammunition, and financial support.

“It is encouraging to see how the brave Ukrainian forces are able to liberate more Ukrainian territory, the victories, the gains the Ukrainian armed forces are making belongs to the brave, courageous Ukrainian soldiers,” Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. “But of course the support they receive from the United Kingdom, from Nato allies and partners is also essential . . . We will continue to support Ukraine.”

Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London and Max Seddon in Riga

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US elections: Biden hails better-than-expected midterms results - BBC

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By Jude Sheerin

BBC News, Washington

US President Joe Biden has expressed relief after Democrats fended off major Republican gains in the midterms.

Republicans are inching towards control of the House of Representatives, but Mr Biden noted that a "giant red wave" did not materialise on Tuesday night.

Either party could still win the Senate, which hinges on three races that are too close to call.

The party in power, currently the Democrats, usually suffers losses in a president's first midterm elections.

Republican strategists had been hopeful of sweeping victories, given that inflation is at a 40-year-high and Mr Biden's approval ratings are relatively low.

But exit poll data suggests voters may have punished Republicans for their efforts to restrict access to abortion.

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Biden said the results so far had made him breathe a "sigh of relief".

"It was a good day, I think, for democracy," he said.

He added that his optimism had been vindicated, and ribbed journalists who had predicted heavy Democratic losses.

Buoyed by the better-than-expected night, Mr Biden said he plans to stand for re-election in 2024. "Our intention is to run again, that's been our intention," Mr Biden, who turns 80 this month, told reporters.

Republicans, meanwhile, were closing in on the 218 seats they need to wrest control of the House from Democrats.

If Republicans win either chamber of Congress, they will be able to block the president's agenda. The White House is also braced for congressional investigations into the Biden administration.

Mr Biden said he was prepared to work with Republicans and would host bipartisan talks next week.

But the president also said he believed the American people would view any Republican-led inquiries as "almost comedy".

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Whichever party wins two of the three outstanding contests in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada will control the Senate.

Arizona's Senate race is leaning toward the Democrats, while Nevada is a toss-up, according to estimates by the BBC's partner CBS News.

Georgia's contest between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker must be decided by a run-off next month. Neither candidate passed the 50% threshold needed for outright victory.

One of the Republicans' most prized midterms gains was beating Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, the House Democratic campaign chief.

The biggest trophy of the night for Democrats was flipping a US Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

John Fetterman, who has been recovering from a stroke, beat the Republican, Mehmet Oz, a political newcomer and celebrity doctor.

Mr Oz had been backed by former President Donald Trump, who is being blamed by some analysts for Republicans' underwhelming night.

The lacklustre results have even placed a question mark over the timing of Mr Trump's widely expected declaration of a 2024 White House comeback bid. He had promised an announcement next week.

But one of his advisers, Stephen Miller, told conservative network Newsmax he was recommending Mr Trump hold off until the Georgia run-off is decided.

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Mr Trump had mixed results out of the more than 300 candidates he endorsed.

Candidates he chose for open Senate seats in Ohio and North Carolina won.

But other contenders Mr Trump hand-picked in the Michigan and Pennsylvania governor's races lost.

Mr Trump conceded on social media that the election results were "somewhat disappointing".

But he maintained that "from my personal standpoint it was a very big victory".

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Ukraine war: Biden sees 'real problems' for Russia after Kherson retreat order - BBC

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US President Joe Biden has said Russia's decision to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Kherson shows its military has "some real problems".

Mr Biden said he had been expecting the move for "some time" and that it would allow both sides to "recalibrate their positions" over the winter.

Kherson is the only major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces.

Ukraine is treating the news of the withdrawal with scepticism, saying it would move "very carefully".

Gen Sergei Surovikin, who was made Russia's commander in Ukraine just weeks ago, announced the withdrawal on Wednesday accompanied by the military top brass on Russian state TV. He confirmed Russian troops would pull back entirely from the western bank of the River Dnipro.

It is a significant blow to Russia's military ambitions as it faces a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

Mr Biden was speaking from the White House after midterm elections in which his Democratic Party looked likely to lose control of the House of Representatives to the opposition Republican Party.

The president's political rivals previously vowed to review US military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and Mr Biden observed that it was "interesting" that Moscow had "waited until after the election" to announce the withdrawal.

But he said he hoped the "bipartisan approach of confronting Russia's aggression in Ukraine" would continue.

In another development, it has been confirmed that President Putin will not attend next week's G20 gathering of world leaders in Indonesia. He will instead be represented by his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.

Mr Putin may still join one of the meetings virtually, officials said.

The decision to pull back across the Dnipro was treated with caution by Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv was moving "very carefully" after the announcement.

"The enemy does not give us gifts, does not make 'goodwill gestures', we win it all," he told Ukrainians in his nightly address.

After Russia's announcement, civilians inside Kherson said Chechen troops from the Russian military were in the city, in cafes, and moving around the streets.

And at a Ukrainian position on the perimeter around the city, soldiers said the enemy might be trying to draw them into a trap and were proceeding cautiously.

A city about to change hands?

By Paul Adams, BBC International affairs correspondent

Since October, some Kherson residents loyal to Kyiv have felt change in the air.

With Russian-appointed officials starting to evacuate civilians, the city's liberation seemed to be getting closer.

One of the most symbolic - and perhaps telling - moments came when a Russian team arrived at the city's 18th Century Cathedral of St Catherine to remove the bones of Prince Grigory Potemkin, the man responsible for colonising southern Ukraine on behalf of his lover, Catherine the Great.

But there has been a mounting sense of dread too. If Russian forces were compelled to withdraw, what would they do as they left?

Rumours are rife: that Russia is planning to blow up the nearby Nova Kakhovka dam; that Russian troops have donned civilian clothing and are hiding in private homes; or that Russian artillery will simply try to level the city from across the Dnipro, after troops finally leave.

Whatever happens, this feels like a critical moment. A city seen as a jewel in the crown of Russia's occupation may be about to change hands.

Read Paul's full report.

President Vladimir Putin did not take part in the announcement of the withdrawal.

But two of his major allies - previously critical of Russia's war effort - welcomed the move.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group and a long-time Putin associate, said that while the decision was "not a victorious step" it was important "not to agonise, not to get paranoidal, but to draw conclusions and work on mistakes".

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - who Mr Putin picked to rule the autonomous republic in 2007 - said Gen Surovikin had acted "like a real military general, not afraid of criticism".

Although the Ukrainian advance had slowed in recent weeks, Russia's supply lines across the Dnipro had become increasingly difficult after the few bridges across were destroyed by Ukrainian missiles.

Before the withdrawal, Russia moved thousands of civilians out of the city by boat, in what Ukraine described as a deportation.

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Republican wave fails to materialise as US midterm results roll in - Financial Times

Democrats put up an unexpectedly strong fight as results rolled in from US midterm elections that will decide which party controls Congress, even as Republicans led by governor Ron DeSantis notched up a string of convincing victories in Florida.

The early tallies from the midterm elections on Tuesday showed many battleground races across the country were too close to call, with control of the Senate remaining in the balance and Republicans struggling to secure widespread victories in swing districts in the House of Representatives.

“It’s not a wave for sure,” said Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, referring to the “red wave” that many pollsters had predicted heading into election day. However, Graham said his party was on course for a “very good night” and predicted it would win a majority in the lower chamber of Congress.

Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, told the Financial Times: “This is not a tsunami . . . I think that Republicans got ahead of themselves.”

The best early result for Republicans was in Florida, where DeSantis, seen as a probable contender for his party’s presidential nomination in 2024, was quickly projected to win re-election along with senator Marco Rubio.

“I look forward to the road ahead,” DeSantis said. “We have accomplished more than anybody thought possible four years ago. But we have got so much more to do, and I have only begun to fight.”

Luntz called DeSantis “the real winner” of Tuesday night. “He has turned a successful governorship into a nationwide movement. I think he is going to give [Donald] Trump a run for his money.”

However, despite the strong showing in Florida — which had until recently been seen as a swing state — the results were more mixed in other battleground contests. Pivotal Senate races in Georgia, Arizona and Nevada remained exceedingly tight, with highly uncertain outcomes.

In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman won the Senate seat being vacated by the Republican Pat Toomey, despite having been hampered on the campaign trail by his recent stroke.

The White House said President Joe Biden had sent Fetterman his congratulations by text message.

Fetterman campaigned as a working-class progressive, wearing a goatee beard and almost always appearing in a hoodie and shorts. “This race is for the future of every community all across Pennsylvania,” he told supporters. “For every small town or person that ever felt left behind.”

Democrats held on to several bellwether House districts on the east coast where their candidates were seen as vulnerable, with victories for Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Seth Magaziner in Rhode Island.

Meanwhile, New York governor Kathy Hochul was re-elected after holding off Republican challenger Lee Zeldin. The result will bring Democrats some relief after polls showed Zeldin closing a yawning gap in recent weeks with a relentless focus on crime.

Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to win a majority in the House and still have the edge in the lower chamber but they may assume control with a smaller margin than they hoped.

In a delayed victory speech delivered at 2am, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, said: “When you wake up tomorrow we will be in the majority and Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority.”

The White House, which had been bracing itself for heavy losses in the House, said Biden had started to call Democrats including Spanberger and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer to congratulate them on winning their races.

Even a small majority in the House for the Republicans threatens to stymie the next two years of Biden’s presidency. Republican leaders have suggested they will use the debt ceiling as leverage to push through their own policy priorities, such as cuts to federal spending.

They have also indicated they will disband Democrat-led investigations, including the special committee probing Trump’s role in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, and launch their own inquests into everything from the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak to the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the president’s son.

Republicans notched a number of high-profile wins outside of Florida too, with Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, winning re-election, and JD Vance, the former venture capitalist and author backed by Trump, winning his Senate race in Ohio.

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