内容摘要：Ministers predict it will have a significant impact but health experts say further regulation is needed to tackle youth vaping.

Ministers predict it will have a significant impact but health experts say further regulation is needed to tackle youth vaping.

, freeing up billions for her to spend on long-term projects such as roads and energy infrastructure, but the IFS warned "not everything can be a priority for further increases".It said questions remained about "whether the trade-offs will be confronted rather than wished away".

Kiki McDonough, a jewellery designer and business owner, told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that she believed savings could be made in the public sector."The civil service to me is completely overmanned, not working properly and I think if you went through it like a dose of salts and tried to find some savings, you could find a lot of savings," she said.Ms McDonough criticised the chancellor's decision to raise the amount employers pay in National Insurance, saying her first Budget was "like someone had threw chaos at us".

Simon Case, former head of the civil service, admitted he "totally failed" during his time as cabinet secretary to reduce the size of the organisation."I was supposed to reduce the size of the civil service but it actually went up," he told the programme.

"It is definitely true that across all our public services we could find a more efficient and effective way of doing things."

To continue to improve public services under tight restraints, the IFS has suggested the government could improve productivity, thereby allowing it to deliver the same, or better services within lower budgets."That is a complex surgery operation. You need to periodically release batches of new sanctioned vessels, shell companies, traders, insurers etc. every several weeks," Mr Milov says. According to him, this is an area where Western governments have been much more effective, particularly with

by Joe Biden's outgoing administration in January 2025.Mai says that banning Russian LNG exports to Europe and closing the refining loophole in Western jurisdictions would be "important steps in finishing the decoupling of the West from Russian hydrocarbons".

According to Mr Raghunandan from CREA, it would be relatively easy for the EU to give up Russian LNG imports."Fifty percent of their LNG exports are directed towards the European Union, and only 5% of the EU's total [LNG] gas consumption in 2024 was from Russia. So if the EU decides to completely cut off Russian gas, it's going to hurt Russia way more then it's going to hurt consumers in the European Union," he told the BBC.