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🗓️ 28 April 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The result of the election on June 8 will determine the financial outcome of Britain possibly more than any other in recent memory.
So sit down and listen to Simon Lambert, Georgie Frost and Rachel Rickard Straus explain in simple terms what is at stake.
On the agenda:
Pension triple lock – if you’ve never really understood this, you will now
Energy price cap – that old thing. The only thing left for Theresa May to do to turn into Ed Miliband is to eat a bacon butty badly.
Who will fix the housing crisis and how?
Is GDP now suffering at the prospect of Brexit - and is it really best way to measure a country’s performance?
Elections in Europe – how may they affect our economy?
New probate fees ‘the equivalent of paying £20,000 to renew your passport’ have been scrapped – and other great Tory tax u-turns
Plus
Let’s increase the speed limit to 80mph on motorways. We need something to look forward to.
Enjoy.
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0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to This Is Money Show on Share Radio. |
0:06.8 | I'm Georgie Frost and in the studio with me is editor Simon Lambert and personal finance editor Rachel Rickard Strauss to round up the week's top stories they've been covering on their award-winning website. |
0:17.2 | And it seems politicians have been listening to last week's episode. |
0:20.6 | The general election |
0:21.2 | argued Simon should not all be about Brexit. And over the week, we've got a number of |
0:25.9 | U-turns, plans and promises on money matters from probate fees, triple lock and energy price |
0:31.0 | caps. The last month I think of Conservative government was so aggressive in its overt price |
0:34.8 | caps for utility bills was back in Ted Heath's era. |
0:38.1 | I give you that commitment now, Labor will maintain the triple lock. |
0:42.6 | Well, can anyone fix the housing crisis? Jeremy Corbyn thinks his party can. Not everyone's so sure. |
0:47.7 | Whether it's Labour or Conservative for the last 30 years, all we've heard, particularly in election campaigns, is how they're going to be the party of housing. We didn't have great news for the UK economy this week. Growth now at its weakest since the |
0:59.1 | EU referendum, but is GDP really the best measure? The perfect GDP man would be obese, would be |
1:06.1 | driving a car to work every time, get stuck in traffic. Probably have a serious chronic disease. |
1:11.9 | And with all the excitement about the general election here and Brexit, could Brexit be on the |
1:16.5 | cards? We keep an eye on events on the other side of the channel. And the clock is ticking on the old |
1:22.5 | paper fiver. Sharing ideas about money. This is Share Radio. |
1:27.8 | And welcome to This Is Money Show in the studio editor Simon Lambert, personal finance editor, Rachel Rick Arstras, a very good morning, warm welcome to you both. |
1:36.8 | Now, after Simon refusing to be distracted by Brexit, set out the money questions we need to ask those MPs vying for our votes. |
1:44.7 | A week on, has anyone been listening? |
1:47.5 | Well, yes. |
1:48.8 | In amongst the benign herbivores and a mutton-headed old mugwant mature name calling, |
1:53.9 | we did actually get a wealth of non-EU-related chat. |
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