Welcome to This Is Money podcast, sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct.

I'm Georgie Frost, and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce.

And coming up, finally, some relief for borrowers.

The Bank of England sliced a chunk off the base rate.

Does it mean they think the economy has finally turned a corner,

and the good times are

at coming.

But if rates continue to fall, are the bad times are returning for savers.

Also today, the Chancellor delivered a rather punchy speech earlier this week, announcing a big black hole in the nation's finances and clearing the way for some difficult decisions in her first budget in October.

What were those entail? What else was in Rachel Reeves' address?

Plus, broadband and phone bills set to soar again as off-gone rules looked to have backfired

and bad news for wannabe homeowners, and prices were on the March again. Don't begin getting yourself to update with all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.com.

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