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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Ms. Berhardman and I'm joined by James

Forsyth and Katie Bulls. Well, Cabinet often leaks, but today we have had a pre-briefing of

what Boris Johnson was going to say at Cabinet just to make sure that we all got the message.

James, what is the message that he wants us to know about?

So the message is that he's told the Cabinet to come up with ways to help ease the cost of living

crisis, to show the Government it's doing what it can. The catch is he's told to come up with

non-fiscal ways, so e.g. ways that don't cost any money. Because they're having their own

cost of living crisis. Exactly. Now, there are some things you can do. So, for example,

you can cut tariffs on food. At the moment, the Government is sticking to cutting tariffs on food

that the UK doesn't produce itself. So, think of things like rice, which obviously the climate

here is not suited to grow. More controversial, which David Frost, the former Brexit

Opportunities Minister, has called for, will be for the UK to start cutting tariffs on the food

it eats itself produces in an attempt to lower prices. They're not yet prepared to go that far.

And so, I think you see here the Government trying to say, look, we are trying to help, we're trying

to do things. I think the problem we need to talk to people in Government about this is that,

you know, yes, you can reduce the cost of reapplying for a driving license or things like that,

but that is not really what is causing people to feel concerned about their finances.

It's what's having to energy bills, whether Government has spent £9 billion, but people are still

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