union have been taking part in a oneday strike, causing disruption to rail services across britain. now on bbc news, nick robinson in conversation with people who influence our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week is better known, he s more trusted, he s arguably more influential than many politicians. chief executives and chancellors of the exchequer have good reason to fear what martin lewis says. the founder of the moneysavingexpert website and the newsletter has many millions of followers who hang on his conclusions about how, yes, they should be saving money. the ft once dubbed him the most successfuljournalist in the world ever. he s called the current cost of living crisis shocking and scary and anxiety driving. and he warned at one stage that he was running out of tips to help
when the three storey stucture came down in the western city of espinal. colombia s president elect has called for amateur bullfights to be banned. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week is better known, he s more trusted, he s arguably more influential than many politicians. chief executives and chancellors of the exchequer have good reason to fear what martin lewis says. the founder of the moneysavingexpert website and the newsletter has many millions of followers who hang on his conclusions about how, yes, they should be saving money. the ft once dubbed him the most successfuljournalist in the world ever. he s called the current cost of living crisis shocking and scary and anxiety driving. and he warned at one stage that he was running out of tips to help people to get through
to fear what martin lewis says. the founder of the moneysavingexpert website and the newsletter has many millions of followers who hang on his conclusions about how, yes, they should be saving money. the ft once dubbed him the most successful journalist in the world ever. he s called the current cost of living crisis shocking and scary and anxiety driving. and he warned at one stage that he was running out of tips to help people to get through it. martin lewis, welcome to political thinking. thank you. i m. can i speak straightaway? you can. of course, you can speak at any time. as a political man, i m going to get that that very last phrase. you said what i actually said technically, and i was talking about energy bills and the poorest and i said i am virtually out of tools. that was not an accidental phrase because in the room at the same time on the sunday morning show was rishi sunak. and i looked across at him when i said it. and it was very nuanced because obviously myj
it is a strategic hope, not a tactical path. again, the question to me, and they may not sorry. they may not tell us, right? the margin in this election may be that some of these folks end up voting for president biden but can t admit it because it ll mess up the golf round, and so maybe they re just going to do it and shake their heads, you know, when their harder core friends talk about how terrible it is that trump lost. i think this is the story we have to tell. i think it s the case we have to make. i say this as somebody who is deeply sympathetic, as you know and mike knows, with that reagan, bush 41 world. this is not coming from a trotsky-ite. jon meacham putting it into clear perspective. great to see you. perhaps one of the most esteemed
and i do think the two can go hand in hand, but generally i m safer in the numbers. that s my thought process. even if i do a big speech, and i like speaking, i think i m pretty all right on it. and you know, even an emotional speech, there s often, there s often number patterns in there about how many things i ll do. you know, we all know the rule of three, but there are other ways to do it. i had been told you sometimes dream about spreadsheets. now i wouldn t quite go that far, but i do have spreadsheets on lots of things i like. i mean, i play golf. i have every golf round goes in there and i have those widgets on my golf clubs that measure the length of every shot. and i go back and look at the statistics every time. every scrabble game? i miss the first shot every time and since then and yet the current ratio is i win 2.16 to one. but that s not because i m better at making words. it s because my rack management is better if, you know, if you re a scrabble player. i do. in other