Summary
Who is being hit the hardest by the continuing cost of living crisis? BBC Consumer Affairs correspondent Colletta Smith joins the team to discuss what costs are eating away at the purchasing power of the pounds in our pockets. Where are the biggest price rises coming from, what actions are the Scottish and UK Governments taking, and do these plans go far enough?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.7 | It's seven minutes past two on Thursday the 19th of May. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, and today I'm joined by. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Rajseep Sandhu, based in Westminster. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Lindsay Bues, a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:34.1 | And I'm Coletta Smith. I'm the BBC's Consumer Affairs correspondent. I cover the whole |
| 0:39.3 | of the UK and I'm based out of Manchester, which I'm delighted to say is gorgeous and sunny today. |
| 0:45.6 | Not often I can say that, so I just thought I'd get that in. So I feel like this is quite a busy |
| 0:53.5 | time for you right now with all of this news about the cost of living and the inflation rate and so on. |
| 0:58.0 | This is big time for consumer affairs, I guess. |
| 1:01.1 | It is. It is what everyone's talking about. |
| 1:03.5 | This is sort of like FA Cup final moments for consumer affairs journalism anyway. |
| 1:09.5 | It's like... |
| 1:09.8 | It's like... |
| 1:09.9 | It's like... |
| 1:10.7 | It's like... ...everyone's lost, there are no winners. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, exactly. That's totally true. |
| 1:16.2 | It's, of course, just top of the agenda for everyone, |
| 1:18.5 | just trying to work out their household budgets, |
| 1:21.2 | trying to work out how on earth they can fund the fact that |
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