18 Dec 2025

UK: Doctors' walkout, Abramovich warning, inflation drop

From Nine To Noon, 10:15 am on 18 December 2025
Roman Abramovich has owned Chelsea FC since 2003.

UPDATE - sold 2022 after asset frozen

Pay up or face court. Roman Abramovich has been given a stark warning from the UK PM over how his funds from the Chelsea sale were supposed to be used. Photo: AFP

UK correspondent Natasha Clark joins Kathryn to talk about junior doctors walking off the job for five days, which the PM has labelled "dangerous and utterly irresponsible".

The former oligarch owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich, has been given a final warning over making good on a pledge to release £2.5bn from the sale to Ukraine.

And inflation's dropped in the UK - so could the Bank of England deliver some further relief before Christmas?

Natasha Clark is political editor for LBC London