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Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast from The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

This week it seems like everyone is talking about Brexit with Jeremy

Corbyn, David Lillinton, Liam Fox, John Major and Theresa May all giving speeches.

So we're going to talk about something else. Lessons in money, funding our old age, and adults watching children's films.

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It's like the podcast, but somebody's printed it out.

This week I'm joined in the studio by James

Kirkup, Regbox regular columnist and head of the Social Market Foundation

think tank on politicians avoiding the sensible choice. Times columnist David

Aronovich is in a mood at the movies, but first, Times Property and

Money Editor Anne Ashworth on a new power failure.

The government is to impose a price cap on popular energy tariffs, but only from next winter.

This is yet another reminder of an awkward truth.

Households on these expensive tariffs are being penalized for their loyalty to a supplier.

They are subsidizing sharp-elbowed middle-class people who know that loyalty doesn't pay and routinely shop around for the

best deal on energy, insurance, loans, whatever. It's about time we had financial

literacy lessons in schools and at university which taught us all to be active

consumers holding businesses and the government to account.

And this is a particular topical of course because we are we are gracing ourselves

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