The Day The Economy Stood Still

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today, we round up all the latest stories about the UK economy.

Adam is joined by BBC Economics Editor Faisal Islam and Chief Economics Correspondent Dharshini David to dig into what the latest GDP figures tell us about the economy, as well as what Chancellor Rachel Reeves told Faisal about the decisions she has taken on Winter Fuel Payments and those still to come in the budget.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, hope you enjoyed the extra helping of America's in the newscast feed this morning, bringing
0:10.3	you up to date with the Trump-Harris TV debate which happened overnight which I watched
0:15.8	while eating my porridge this morning which was quite an exciting combination.
0:20.0	Anyway this episode of newscast is going to focus on one story in the UK, the state of the economy.
0:25.0	Newscast.
0:26.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:28.0	I like landscapes.
0:29.0	You have a bright future behind you.
0:31.0	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? We're effectively run in this
0:34.2	country by a bunch of childless cat ladies. We don't understand the essence of
0:38.0	Brad. It's the fun police working overtime. It's just getting silly now.
0:41.8	Take me down to Downey Street.
0:43.6	Let's go have a tour.
0:45.6	Blimey.
0:46.5	Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and there's quite a few bits of economic news
0:50.5	today. We got the latest estimates of the
0:53.2	size of the economy in July GDP from the O&S, the Office of
0:57.8	National Statistics. How many TLA's three letter acronyms can you get in one
1:01.8	sentence? We also got the government
1:04.5	celebrating an 8 billion pound investment in the UK by Amazon or the web services
1:12.0	subsidiary of Amazon, and there were details of the government's deal
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