paying 80% more for electricity than our competitors in continental europe, really this willjust perhaps be a flimsy sticking plaster on what is a really major crisis we are going through at the moment. let s start with your first point, where you part of talks with the business secretary? t where you part of talks with the business secretary? where you part of talks with the business secretary? i spoke to the business secretary? i spoke to the business secretary business secretary? i spoke to the business secretary yesterday, i business secretary? i spoke to the business secretary yesterday, he i business secretary yesterday, he said he was preparing a paper. i wanted to confirm with him that he had everything he needed from the steel sector in terms of what we needed to happen and that was the last i heard about it. last i heard about it. when you say ou hoed last i heard about it. when you say you hoped it last i heard about it. when you say you hoped it would last i heard a
some of our analysis has shown, yes, if we want, if you are skilled i m looking to work as a lorry driver, yes, there are lots of vacancies out there. if you are doing for example there. if you are doing for example the types of roles many older workers do and you are looking for workers do and you are looking for work in london, the vacancy rates actually are really not very high and the competition in the labour market is really quite fierce. ts market is really quite fierce. is there a possibility that the uk economy is overheating? and what is the likelihood that we will see an increase in interest rates? t the likelihood that we will see an increase in interest rates? i think auain, it increase in interest rates? i think again. it is increase in interest rates? i think again. it is a increase in interest rates? i think again, it is a mixed increase in interest rates? i think again, it is a mixed picture. i increase in interest rates? i think| again, it is a mixed picture. th
changing demographics. it wants to spend more on those areas and it is finding it increasingly hard to cut spending elsewhere to pay for it and therefore is having to increase the size of the state. t therefore is having to increase the size of the state. size of the state. i wonder if we could turn size of the state. i wonder if we could turn to size of the state. i wonder if we could turn to the size of the state. i wonder if we could turn to the figures - size of the state. i wonder if we could turn to the figures we i size of the state. i wonder if we | could turn to the figures we have had released today. unemployment and vacancies as well. a lot of vacancies, but we can t find the people. what does that say to you, what does that tell is about our economy, what is going on? tt is economy, what is going on? it is worth saying economy, what is going on? tt 3 worth saying those unemployment figures are falling and they are low compared to even pre pandemic. but there is sti