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The Martin Lewis Podcast

Best Bits: Martin’s “Money-festo” Tell Us Special.

The Martin Lewis Podcast

BBC

Business

4.2789 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Martin’s off air for the next few weeks so it’s a chance to revisit some of the best bits of the year so far. Before the general election Martin and Polly Mackenzie rated listener’s ideas for money related improvements to the law.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

Hello, I'm Martin Lewis and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast.

0:08.9

I do wonder what that's going to be about.

0:10.9

Now, we decided that what you really wanted during the summer was a whole host of best of podcasts.

0:17.5

Subtext, I'm taking a few weeks off and we didn't want to leave you without a podcast, so we've decided to pick a few of the best bits to show you, well, I'm taking a few weeks off and we didn't want to leave you without a podcast,

0:21.2

so we've decided to pick a few of the best bits to show you,

0:24.0

well, I'm taking a little bit of a break and resting these vocal chords.

0:26.9

When you talk as quickly as I do, that's quite important.

0:29.6

This one's from before the election.

0:31.1

Nihal and I were joined by Policy Guru, Polly McKenzie,

0:34.5

to look at some of your suggested ideas to improve the country and whether they

0:38.7

could work in practice or not. We called it our Money Festo. Play the theme tune.

0:47.2

I got meals. I got to pay. So I'm going to work for it. I'm going to work. I got a meal. Welcome to a tell us

1:04.0

It's special.

1:05.0

It's called The Money Festo.

1:08.0

So what I wanted to know is if you could change a law or regulation to improve consumer

1:13.6

finance or personal finance products or the way the system operates, what would it be?

1:18.8

And I have someone to help me, which I'm very excited about, not something I often do.

1:24.0

Joining me is Polly McKenzie, who used to be head of policy for the Lib Dems and was then

1:29.0

embedded in number 10 during the coalition government. She's a proper policy wonk. And then

1:34.5

what I would say, the highlight of her career definitely was when she was the first chief executive

1:39.7

of the money and mental health policy institute charity that I set up and chair. So she got to

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