but it is very big hand, small map at the moment, so we are very much talking macro, we are still dealing with the ongoing issues, obviously everything moves on outpace and we still don t have the confidence from a business perspective to be able to, all the tools, to be able to plan for the future for our investments et cetera. so, i very much look forward to this period being over. much look forward to this period being over- much look forward to this period being over. what difficulties, you are a defence being over. what difficulties, you are a defence company, - being over. what difficulties, you are a defence company, what - are a defence company, what difficulties are you facing in terms of energy gusts and so on, and what are you doing in this time of high inflation, to help your employees? because i think you ve given them a cost of living allowance, is that right? cost of living allowance, is that riuht? ~ ., ~ cost of living allowance, is that riaht? ., ~ ., cost of livin
and a much bigger reliance on wood and coal rather than radiators. tom runs this and another pub. both have rising energy gusts. i don t believe we can pass any of it on any more. we ve got to a stage that the customers themselves have got the same problem. and if we keep increasing the cost of beer and food, the customers won t come out any more. they can t afford it. at the other pub tom and jo own, energy prices have tripled. if that was reflected in the price of a pint, this would now be £14.85. do we stay open every day? do we close? jo is tom s mum and business partner. we lljust have to hope the bills get better. that s all you can do is just hope that it gets better? yeah, it gets better, or we get some help, if the government help us and that s what brewery owners and pub companies say must now happen, or many pubs will go out of business.
going to reverse a recent rise in national insurance if she becomes prime minister, she wants to cancel a planned increase in corporation tax and we are hearing from her team that she is even thinking of the idea of cutting vat across the board. we have heard today from the ifs, the respected economic think tank, their director paul johnson has spoken to the times and he says it is a simplistic mantra to think that tax cuts automatically produce economic growth and he talks about it being a time of big deficit and high inflation and says there those policies are quite worrying. and in a separate piece he has written for the times, he says that neither liz truss nor rishi sunak are coming up with adequate solutions for rising energy gusts. rishi sunak of course wants to cut vat on energy bills and he has promised more targeted support for the most vulnerable but no figures on exactly what he will be offering yet. pauljohnson goes on to say energy gusts will be a problem for those on mod
this is bbc news. the headlines at eight. fears the nhs will be overloaded as people s health will suffer from rising energy gusts with households forced to choose between eating meals and heating their homes. el shafee el sheikh, one of four islamic state militants known as the beatles, gets life in prison in america, over the deaths of four us citizens. lead that sentencing make clear to all who dare to kidnap, torture or kill any american citizen abroad that usjustice will find kill any american citizen abroad that us justice will find you wherever you are. in a phone conservation with president macron vladimir putin agrees on need to send inspectors to the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in ukraine while russia threatens to cut off power supplies to the plant.
henry dimbleby work very long and hard. there are recommendations he put forward that had been put into this but it s a white paper so a start, but we need to focus on the policy that will deliver less. we had an announcement this week about some of the producers who supply cucumbers and peppers for the salad market, saying they were not going to plant because from their point of view there was a pointless plan thinking they would lose the crop because they cannot find people to pick it. are you worried that will start happening in other sectors? this has been the big issue for the last few years in the horticultural sector, we have seen left feel crops being planted and with despite rises in gas at the moment we have seen glasshouses contracting and protected crops set up, all these roads leading back to higher energy