Summary
Alcohol tax up, house prices down, and food inflation slowing.
There’s loads of news about the changing price of various things, including alcohol, so The Newscast Arms is reopening.
At the bar with us is:
- Cost of living correspondent Coletta Smith, who explains how the government's alcohol tax changes will work. - Boss of Iceland Richard Walker, who talks about how customers might experience slowing inflation. - Property website Zoopla’s research and insights director Richard Donnell, who chats through why house prices are falling. - And Newsnight’s Kirsty Walk, who takes us through why a by-election has been called in Scotland.
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Today's Newscast Landlady was Alex Forsyth. The podcast was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade, Alex Collins, and Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's Alex Forsyth in for Adam. |
| 0:07.3 | And I decided that it might be a good day today |
| 0:10.1 | to go to the pub, not the real pub, sadly, |
| 0:12.7 | but the virtual pub. |
| 0:14.2 | So we are making the newscast studio |
| 0:16.4 | into the newscast arms today. |
| 0:18.5 | And that's because we're going to be talking a lot |
| 0:20.2 | about the cost of things, including alcohol, |
| 0:23.3 | because there are big changes to alcohol duty |
| 0:26.2 | coming into effect, which might affect |
| 0:28.3 | how much you pay for your pint or your glass of wine. |
| 0:30.3 | And to tell us more about it, we've got |
| 0:31.8 | Kaleta Smith, our cost of living correspondent. |
| 0:33.8 | Hello, Kaleta. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, Alex, very nice to be here. |
| 0:36.5 | I only wish it wasn't a virtual pub. |
| 0:38.5 | Me too. Me too. |
| 0:40.8 | But welcome to the newscast arms nonetheless. |
| 0:42.9 | So just tell us a bit about what is changing |
| 0:44.8 | when it comes to these taxes on alcohol. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, so the government are calling it, well, |
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