Welcome to Tisky Sauer. Tonight we're talking about inflation, which is at the highest level

it has been in 40 years. I'll speak to James Mead, why workers should, contra what you

might be hearing from leading politicians, why they should ask for a pay rise. We'll also

be talking about the Tory MP arrested on suspicion of rape. Ed Miliband, very successfully

laying into Rishi Sunak and the Daily Mail's pretty obsessive campaign against people working

from home this evening. I'm delighted to be joined by Moyer Lovian McClain. Tisky viewers will

have seen Moyer before as a guest host, but this is the first time you've been on the show

as a Navarra Media staff member. Moyer is our newest contributing editor. How have you found

joining the team, Moyer? Well, you know that I love to be paid a full-time salary, so it's fantastic.

No, I'm really pleased to be here and also that have a four-day working week. It's true,

Navarra Media, four-day working week. We practice what we preach, we're in favour of a four-day week

and so we run one. With household budgets already at breaking point, average price increases have

reached a 40-year high. Inflation now stands at 9% a level last seen in 1982. It's seven points

above the Bank of England's target. Yet even that high figure fails to account for the full

impact price rises are having on Britain's poorest. As the IFS show prices for the poorest households

have gone up by a massive 10.9% that compares to only 7.9% inflation for the richest households.

The difference is because poor people spend more of their incomes on essential goods,

such as energy, food and rent. These are the goods for which the prices have increased the fastest.

Yet despite all this, Boris Johnson still thinks he has a good economic story to tell.

And I'm proud to say, Mr. Bigger, for this week it was revealed that unemployment has come down

to the lowest level since 1974 when I was 10 years old, Mr. Bigger. I don't know how old he was,

but I was 10 years old. The low unemployment and high inflation go together is a tenant

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