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'We are not a charity, we can't condone people taking food.'
Iceland will not change their policy on shoplifting amid the cost of living crisis, says managing director of Iceland, Richard Walker.
'I think we're coming into a tough decade.'
While it might not necessarily be a recession for ten years, we're looking towards a decade that could be worse than the 1970s, says Jasmine Birtles Birtles, founder of Money Magpie.
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βTheyβre absolutely useless. They cannot get one thing right.β
The UK is beginning to feel like a third world country, Jamie and John say in Matt Chorleyβs focus group.
π§ New episode - Books to live by with Mariella Frostrup!
Mariella chats to George the Poet about the books that have shaped him from Malcom Gladwell to JK Rowling. π
'The journalistic class have this kind of homoerotic attitude to people like Boris Johnson... it's disgusting.
The 'class-ridden' attitude of the public and the media is holding us back from advancing as a country, Sir Tim Smitt tells #TimesRadio .
'Putin's war machine uses Wagner to do the dirty work around the world.'
Jason McCue is part of the legal team taking action against the Wagner Group and discusses the case with @MariellaF1 on #TimesRadio .
'I feel entirely free to criticise the BBC and I feel entirely free to support it if someone tries to abolish the license fee. I consider myself an independent voice.'
Ian Hislop tells #TimesRadio he 'feels free' to support someone abolishing the BBCβs license fee.
βWe donβt want to end up with unintended consequences that push us into a recession.β
Former business secretary @AndreaLeadsom talks to Matt Chorley on #TimesRadio about the Bank of England interest rates rise.
βThere is a Tory premium now on mortgagesβ
Labour leader Keir Starmer reacts to the rise in interest rates with Matt Chorley on #TimesRadio .
βIt may be time now to start looking at some forms of means-testing.β
@AndreaLeadsom, who is running for chair of the Treasury Select Committee, tells Matt Chorley on #TimesRadio that the government has βdifficult decisionsβ to make about the triple lock on pensions.
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'What's happening on the Channel is not the product of Brexit, it's the product of a lack of will through successive governments.'
Former government minister Ann Widdecombe tells #TimesRadio that Brexit isnβt to blame for the migrant crisis, βa lack of willβ is.
β[The Home Office] is not even measuring performance anymore.β
Labour party chair Anneliese Dodds π tells #TimesRadio that the Home Office is βnot functioningβ and is failing to deal with asylum applications.