The Cost of Living Crisis?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Who will the cost of living rise hit hardest, and can anything be done to mitigate it? As the Scottish Budget is revealed, Mairi Spowage, Deputy Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde joins the team to look at some of the current global and domestic issues pushing up the price of goods in the UK, and what it means for the pounds in people's pockets. What impact has the pandemic had, and what are the longer term historic issues which led us to this point?
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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 |
| 0:15.6 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.1 | It's 17 minutes past two on Thursday the 10th of February. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:26.4 | And today I'm joined by... |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Raj Sheep Sandhu, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Phil Simmer, a reporter based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Lindsay Bues, a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:39.4 | Hi! |
| 0:41.6 | That was like a bit of a delay on the line there, or just not very enthusiastic. |
| 0:45.7 | Let's hope it's the first one. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, thanks everybody for joining us. |
| 0:49.6 | We've also got someone else with us this week. |
| 0:52.4 | We might give listeners a bit of a clue as to what we're |
| 0:54.5 | going to be focusing on. We have Mary Spowage from the Fraser of Allander Institute. Hi, Mary. |
| 1:00.7 | Hi. Hello. And I believe this isn't your first pod-litical. No, no, I've been on before |
| 1:06.0 | talking about all things budget. Yes, helping us make sense of this. We decided this week we wanted |
| 1:10.8 | to focus on the costs of living, helping us make sense of this. We decided this week we wanted to focus on |
| 1:11.9 | the cost of living, which has been a huge news story the past couple of weeks. And obviously, |
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