The End Of Cheap?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Are we facing the end of cheap goods and services? Matt Chorley speaks to economists, industry leaders and people working at the sharp end of retail, food and logistics to find out whether consumers are looking at permanently higher prices.
PLUS
Former Social Care Minister Alistair Burt and Care England's Martin Green respond to the Prime Minister's Social care plan; and The Times' David Aaronovitch and the New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe pick over the day's news.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy |
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| 0:38.3 | be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step |
| 0:45.2 | towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable |
| 0:52.8 | green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com |
| 1:01.5 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Surely. Do you want to come and play |
| 1:10.2 | our quiz? Can you get to number 10? 10 questions loosely connect 10 cabinet jobs. The more questions |
| 1:14.5 | you can get right, the better the job you get to taking your place alongside our listeners and |
| 1:19.0 | guests. As you get all 10 right, then you become a prime minister. Easy peasy. If you want to come |
| 1:23.1 | on email me, Matt. Surely at times, top radio with your name and your number. I won't get you on |
| 1:27.3 | the radio very soon. Right, coming up on the podcast today, really interesting discussion, |
| 1:31.5 | this is the era of cheap over whether it's going out, eating out, buying stuff in the shops. |
| 1:38.1 | Have we got to get used to paying more for it in part because of the pandemic, Brexit and controls |
| 1:44.7 | on immigration. Really interesting conversation coming up on that. It's a cost of living about to |
| 1:49.1 | get more expensive. Before that, though, it's our economy's panel. No Danny Finkelstein today, |
| 1:53.4 | so David and one of it is joined by Rachel Cuniff. |
| 2:04.9 | Big question of the day, what's the point of manifestos? Do they matter? Ken Clark was saying |
| 2:10.2 | at the weekend that nobody's ever read a manifesto. It's never made any difference to how anyone's |
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