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Wake Up To Money

Trump and tariffs - one year on

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A year since Donald Trump returned to the White House. How has the US economy fared? Will Bain also lifts the drain cover on the Government's plans for a new water regulator. And the the boss of shoe and handbag maker Kurt Geiger talks education.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased,

0:27.9

it's really all about the traitors uncloked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and

0:32.6

podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:39.5

Hello morning, welcome to wake up to money.

0:41.5

It's been a year since Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term as US president.

0:46.2

I will very simply put America first.

0:51.5

An awful lot has happened since then.

0:53.7

We will be looking back at a year of tariffs and trade upheaval while asking what might

0:58.1

happen next.

0:59.0

Also on the program today, we'll take a look at the government's plans for a new water regulator

1:03.1

and find out what it might mean for the industry in our bills.

1:06.1

And we've been speaking to Neil Clifford, the boss of the shoe and handbag maker, Kurt

1:10.5

Geiger,

1:11.1

about, amongst other things, education.

1:13.8

We should control, old, delete the whole thing and create an education system that prepares

1:19.6

our young people for work.

1:21.5

All that to come on Wake Up to Money this morning.

1:24.6

Wake Up to Money with Will Bade.

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