Cost of living: How can I plan my finances now?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
From income tax to energy bills, changes announced by Jeremy Hunt, the new chancellor - along with rising inflation - will have a direct impact on household budgets.
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Saima Mohsin speaks to Mary Starks, an energy expert and former executive director for consumers and markets at Ofgem, the energy regulator, and Greg Marsh, who founded the free cost-of-living tool, Nous.
Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Alys Bowen – interviews producer
Nelly Stefanova – archive researcher
David Chipakupaku – podcast promotion producer
Philly Beaumont - editor
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| 0:00.0 | You turned your dating app for pets into a business, which just turned over its first billion. |
| 0:06.5 | You turned around the fortunes of a failing football club, politely turned down a Nobel Peace Prize, |
| 0:13.8 | and turned up on Mars in your own reusable rocket. |
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| 0:30.2 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
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| 0:36.1 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:42.3 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
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| 1:01.4 | It's been a turbulent few weeks for the financial markets. |
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| 1:12.2 | Politics. |
| 1:13.0 | I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party. |
| 1:16.2 | But also the British public. |
| 1:18.8 | I still haven't put the heating on. |
| 1:20.4 | I don't really want to do it. |
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