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Liz Truss and Keir Starmer stumble on the cost of living crisis | Audio Podcast | New Statesman
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30:43Now PlayingWith inflation rising and the cost of living crisis worsening, Keir Starmer and Liz Truss have had their respective stumbles on the issue of workers' pay.
The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent, the highest increase in 27 years, and predicts that the UK will enter a deep recession within months. As the cost-of-living crisis worsens and with strikes planned throughout the summer, Keir Starmer's Labour remains split over frontbenchers joining picketing workers.
Anoosh Chakelian, Rachel Wearmouth, Freddie Hayward and Rachel Cunliffe discuss Labour leader Keir Starmer’s softening stance on picketing - after shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy joined striking telecoms workers and union leaders claimed that Labour was “irrelevant” to working people – and ask whether the party’s ambiguity can be sustained through a summer of strikes.
Then In You Ask Us, a listener enquires about the communication issues and presentation style of Liz Truss’ Conservative leadership campaign and what this would mean if she succeeds Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
If you have a question for You Ask Us, email podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk
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