Spring Into Action?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Does the Chancellor's Spring Statement offer ways to combat the cost of living crisis? As Chancellor Rishi Sunak sets out measures to try and reduce the shock of rising fuel, food, and energy bill prices, the team analyse the statement and what it means for people in Scotland and the UK. What impact will this have on the upcoming local elections, and has the UK Government gone far enough in its plans to prevent the pinch on the pounds in our pocket?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It's seven minutes past two on Thursday the 24th of March. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist normally based in the Scottish Parliament, |
| 0:31.4 | although currently locked down in my house. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Rarthe Eipsundu, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm David Wallace Lockhart, and I'm also at Westminster. |
| 0:39.6 | David Wallace Lockhart, hello. |
| 0:42.2 | Hello. |
| 0:42.6 | Hi, you're not normally in Westminster but you are at the moment. |
| 0:45.4 | I followed the sunshine down here where it is a good few degrees warmer than north of the border. |
| 0:50.8 | So you're doing a stint with our colleagues in London, like the lovely |
| 0:54.8 | Rajdeep. How's it all going? It's going fantastically and Rajdeep has shown me where I make my |
| 1:00.1 | cups of tea, etc. The most important part. Feeling very at home. And Phil, you weren't with us last |
| 1:07.1 | week because you, like many thousands of others have COVID how are you feeling? |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah I'm all right it's just felt like fate in a way to avoid COVID for two years and then on the |
| 1:18.7 | actual anniversary of two years on from the start of the pandemic I'm now spending it locked on my house but it's everywhere |
| 1:24.5 | isn't it feels like everybody's got COVID yeah see last week's episode with Lisa Summers for more on that um but we yeah we've |
| 1:31.7 | been talking about COVID and obviously the outcome of Ukraine for a while but it feels like this |
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