many of you look in the same couple of days. i know many of you look ahead in the same couple of days. i know many of you look ahead to - in the same couple of days. i know many of you look ahead to 2023 i in the same couple of days. i know. many of you look ahead to 2023 with apprehension. many of you look ahead to 2023 with apprehension- many of you look ahead to 2023 with apprehension. should he be nervous? we can feel apprehension. should he be nervous? we can feel the apprehension. should he be nervous? we can feel the public apprehension. should he be nervous? we can feel the public looking - apprehension. should he be nervous? we can feel the public looking at - apprehension. should he be nervous? we can feel the public looking at us i we can feel the public looking at us again we can feel the public looking at us again and we can feel the public looking at us again and we won t let up. he doesnt again and we won t let up. he: doesn t seem it. look at the
waving flags and chanting slogans. the palestinian red cross said more than 70 people were injured in clashes. now on bbc news, dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together columnists from uk newspapers with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their home country from the dateline london. this was the week when sue gray delivered her report into whether there were downing street parties during the covid lockdown. did the report itself deliver? we learnt the likely impact of surging energy prices and a doubling of the numbers in fuel poverty in the uk. the government s answer to it? throw money at the problem. is it proportionate or inflationary? and what about those other sharply rising bills? is inflation stalking the globe? to discuss all that, we have the american journalist stephanie baker, a senior writer with bloomberg markets, steve richards, a political commentator who presents the podcast
the public can expect and i think the suggestion that there is going to be a quick fix, a sticking plaster is not a reality. you are an economist plaster is not a reality. you are an economist by plaster is not a reality. you are an economist by trade plaster is not a reality. you are an economist by trade but plaster is not a reality. you are an economist by trade but have - plaster is not a reality. you are an economist by trade but have beenj economist by trade but have been around the political world for a long time. very striking rishi sunak didn t want to get into the question of if he uses private health care. does it matter to you if he does or not? i does it matter to you if he does or not? ~ , does it matter to you if he does or not? ~ , ., , ,., , ., not? i think there is absolutely a case for people not? i think there is absolutely a case for people coming - not? i think there is absolutely a case for people coming clean - not? i think there is absolutely a | cas
as we said earlier, you have this self proclaimed fiscal conservative. and his spring statement, a few weeks ago, which was a sort of minimalist approach to the economic crisis, was him. boris johnson was weak. he couldn t be this sort of call me a rooseveltian spend, spend, spend and and sunak didn t. and within weeks, he s had to come back with a big package which has been acknowledged by the institute for fiscal studies as being pretty redistributive at targeting poorer incomes, and spending a lot of money. and it seems to me a reverse of the 1970s, where you had the then prime minister jim callahan saying you can t spend your way out of a recession , thatcher living on it, and the tidal waves were moving rightwards in her direction. it seems to me. crosstalk. so, even the party that would normally have argued differently was arguing the same? yeah, yeah. now, whether labour are supple enough to seize that moment is one of the big questions in the coming year or so.
it. this was not a green start? it wasn t. sunak it. this was not a green start? it wasn t, sunak didn t it. this was not a green start? it wasn t, sunak didn t even - it. this was not a green start? it l wasn t, sunak didn t even mention climate wasn t, sunak didn t even mention climate change. and that is concerning, it is a shock that we risk in concerning, it is a shock that we risk in our concerning, it is a shock that we risk in our economy that would absolutely blow the pandemic and its scarring absolutely blow the pandemic and its scarring effects out of the water. if scarring effects out of the water. if we scarring effects out of the water. if we allow scarring effects out of the water. if we allow climate change to run away if we allow climate change to run away out if we allow climate change to run away out of control, it s not about the costs away out of control, it s not about the costs of away out of control, it s not about the costs of preventing it