at its fastest rate in a0 years, welcome to this special edition of your questions answered. over the next half hour, we ll be examining in detail different areas of the squeeze on the pound in your pocket and some of the solutions that individuals, and communities, are finding. so, we ve got a panel of experts. sarah pennells is a consumerfinance specialist at royal london, which calls itself the uk s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. sabine goodwin is co ordinator at the independent food aid network, which provides help to those at the sharp end of the cost of living crisis. and mercedes osborne is a mortgage expert at pointers financial based in exeter. welcome to all of you. and also with us this week, our climate editorjustin rowlatt, who s out and about giving tips to householders on simple measures that may help reduce energy use. we ll be withjustin a bit later. and as you can see, we ve got a whole range of topics lined up. but first, here s our
affairs told journalists that more than 1.3 million people had been displaced in the worst floods the country had seen in a decade. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. and boy, there s quite a lot of politics to think about, isn t there? all the drama about this government mess, though, a dramatic shift in our politics. it has become the conventional wisdom overnight that labour will win the next election. the polling suggests there s been a greater swing in recent days and weeks than there was during the last worst financial crisis to hit a conservative government black wednesday back in 1992. and that ll mean there will pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what labour will do. faced with the same economic fundamentals high taxes, high borrowing, high inflation and low growth. if labour does indeed win an election, lisa nandy will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what s become known as
we will be examining in detail different areas of the squeeze on the pound in your pocket and some of the solutions individuals and communities are finding. so, we have a panel of experts, sarah pennells is a consumer finance specialist at royal london, which calls itself the uk s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. sabine goodwin is coordinator at the independent food aid network which provides help to those at the sharp end of the cost of living crisis. and mercedes osborne is a mortgage expert at pointers financial based in exeter. welcome based in exeter. to all of you. also with us this week is our climate editorjustin rowlatt, who is out and about giving tips to householders on simple measures that may help reduce their energy use. we will beat with justin we will beat withjustin a bit later. we have a whole range of topics lined up. first, kevin peacheyis topics lined up. first, kevin peachey is has analysis on working age benefits and whether
it has become the conventional wisdom overnight that labour will win the next election. the polling suggests there s been a greater swing in recent days and weeks than there was during the last worst financial crisis to hit a conservative government black wednesday back in 1992. and that ll mean there will pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what labour will do. faced with the same economic fundamentals high taxes, high borrowing, high inflation and low growth. if labour does indeed win an election, lisa nandy will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what s become known as the red wall. northern industrial towns like wigan in lancashire, which she represents and which she says has changed her politics. a politics learnt at the knee of her grandfather, who was a liberal mp and a father who was, who is a famous marxist academic. political thinking is a conversation with, not an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking. and today we r
there has been during the last financial crisis. that will mean they were pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what labour will do faced with the same economic fundamentals. high taxes, high borrowing, high inflation and low growth. if labour does indeed win an election, lisa nandy will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what has become known they red wall, northern industrial towns like wigan in lancashire which she represents and which she says has changed her politics, a politics learnt at the knee of her grandfather who was a liberal mp and a father who also is a famous marxist academic. politicalthinking is a conversation with, not a interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking and today we are recording just down the road from wigan next door to the great city of manchester in the city of salford. ,., city of manchester in the city of salford. . , u, city of manchester in the city of salford. ., , , ., salford. lisa nandy, welcome t