Summary
The cost of living crisis deepens as two Conservative candidates vie to be the next PM. How much will inflation and taxation play into Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak's pitches to Conservative party members to be Prime Minister? What are their plans to help out those who are struggling? BBC consumer affair correspondent Connor Gillies joins the team, and shares insights from his roadshow around Scotland which looked at how the cost of living crisis was affecting people's every day decisions, from tourism to trips to the shops.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.7 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.2 | It is 10 past two on Thursday |
| 0:22.0 | the 21st of July. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based in Edinburgh and today I am joined by |
| 0:27.1 | I'm Raj Seepsundu, a journalist based in Westminster. Glenn Campbell covering politics |
| 0:32.8 | at Hollywood, Westminster and everywhere else and sitting next to Phil in the studio. And I'm |
| 0:37.2 | Connor Gillis. I'm usually based at Pacific Key in Glasgow, but just now I'm on the road and I'm in Fort William. |
| 0:42.3 | Are you the guy with the deck chairs? |
| 0:44.3 | Yes. Yes. I like those deck chairs. |
| 0:47.3 | So do I, but they're getting squeaky as the week goes on. They started off shiny and new on Monday and by this morning, |
| 0:55.7 | I'm thinking that someone's going to go through them before the day's out. |
| 0:59.7 | This is a new line of merchandise for the BBC potentially, and you can tune in to all of |
| 1:03.7 | our broadcast output to see more of the deck chairs. And at least nobody has done the moving |
| 1:08.1 | them around on the deck of the Titanic gag yet. |
| 1:11.6 | But that could come later. |
| 1:12.5 | That's coming, yes. |
| 1:13.8 | Yes. |
| 1:14.1 | So these are the deck. |
| 1:14.8 | I've missed the opportunity. |
| 1:16.1 | Connor has taken with them on his road shore in the country looking at cost of living, |
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