Election fallout
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Will Bain looks at the business reaction to the local election results, picking out the key economic impacts with experts. Elsewhere, pressure from the war in Iran is driving up prices of saffron and other ingredients in restaurant kitchens. Finally, we speak to venues in the UK and abroad about the upcoming men's football World Cup.
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| 0:34.6 | Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:36.7 | With leadership speculation swirling across the front pages |
| 0:39.8 | and with another major reset speech ahead today. We'll get the business and market reaction |
| 0:44.3 | to the new political backdrop after the Welsh, Scottish and local elections and ask what next for |
| 0:49.9 | the Prime Minister. We've heard a lot of things getting more expensive to import to as a result of |
| 0:55.7 | the Iran conflict already, haven't we? But you might not be expecting a certain item on your |
| 0:59.2 | spice rack to get hit. Our reporter tells us why Saffron is skyrocketing in price. And with a month |
| 1:05.4 | to go until the men's football world cup, we hear how venues both at home and abroad are preparing for the big tournament. |
| 1:11.9 | Wake up to Money with Will Bade. Morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Monday the 11th of May. |
| 1:18.7 | Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning. Great to have your company as we kick off what promises to be another busy week, doesn't it? At home and abroad. Price of oil creeping back up again this morning after, well, more tensions between the US and Iran, don't seem any closer to a permanent ceasefire, a permanent peace there in that war, do they with President Trump rejecting Tehran's latest proposal? We'll be looking at that and the impact it's having, but also you can't move for it on the front of all the news websites and front pages. |
| 1:46.4 | The fallout, I guess, because on Friday, obviously, we had the results program here, and then through the weekend, we got so many of those results on Saturday and Sunday. |
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