Original Broadcast: Ed's Macro-Economic View
Well let's stay with politics and events north of the border where Scotland's Labour party has unveiled its manifesto for the May 5th elections. Party leader Kezia Dugdale said the document was a "return to the party's roots" and that Labour was the only party "offering an alternative to austerity". Yet with the Scottish National Party enjoying a 30 point lead in opinion polls, can the manifesto woo back those Labour supporters who've defected to the nationalists? Juliette Foster is joined on the phone by our man in Scotland Maurice Smith.
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 8:00
On May 5th, Londoners will go to the polls to choose a new Mayor of London. It's the fifth such vote, and it matters to business just who is elected. But will business issues loom large in the last days of what's been a rather lacklustre campaign? To find out, Share Radio Morning Money's Nigel Cassidy spoke to Chris Curtis, from YouGov.
Guests: Nigel Cassidy,Chris Curtis
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 8:00
As the pensions regulator launches an investigation into the collapse of BHS, which has a £571 million hole in its pension fund, The Huffington Post’s Jack Sommers talks about whether this will become a political issue. Jack also discusses the Junior Doctors strike and the MP vote against the attempt to force the government to allow 3000 unaccompanied child refugees into the UK from Europe.
Guests: Chris Bailey,Jack Sommers
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 8:00
Agriculture remains one of the most divisive issues in the ongoing debate over Britain's membership of the EU. As the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development meets to discuss policy, Share Radio's Robert Van Egghen investigates how Brexit might affect British farming and farmers.
Guests: Robert Van Egghen
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 8:00
In honour of the Queen's 90th Birthday, Share Radio’s Matt Cox delves into the financial, technological and political highs and lows witnessed by Queen Elizabeth during her lifetime, and how it has shaped the country as we know it. In part two, a look at Britain in the new age 90's, travelling all the way to our present day.
Guests: Matt Cox
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Once again, Ed Bowsher joins Georgie Frost in the studio for the Consuming Issues news review. Today, how are we going to overcome a national skills shortage? Also, banks are doing their best to win you over, which way are you leaning? Pensioners are withdrawing 100s of millions in equity, where on earth is it all going? And finally, orange is not the only fruit, you know...
Guests: Ed Bowsher
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Original Broadcast: The Weeks Update
For those who've yet to decide which way they're going to vote in the EU referendum, the claims and counter claims from the rival camps are probably about as helpful as driving through fog without lights or a Sat Nav. So have George Osborne's Treasury backed findings made the road ahead any clearer....or worse? Juliette Foster is joined in the studio by Professor John Weeks, Share Radio's regular economics commentator.
Guests: John Weeks
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The Treasury's forecasts that UK households will be £4,300 worse off a year by 2030 if we leave the European Union. The predictions were slammed by eurosceptics yesterday, with MPs calling the chancellor’s report pathetic and desperate. Jeremy Cook - chief economist at WorldFfirst talks to Sarah Lowther
Guests: Jeremy Cook
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Original Broadcast: Consuming Issues
Kicking off the news of the week, Share Senior Ed Bowsher joins Georgie Frost in the studio to discuss Osborne's impending Brexit warning, to wonder where all the shoppers going from the high street have gone, and why so many Britons are living at home.
Guests: Ed Bowsher
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Original Broadcast: This is Money
It's time once again for This is Money. Editor Simon Lambert and Consumer Affairs editor Lee Boyce join Georgie in the studio to discuss the biggest stories they've been looking at this week. On our show today; more Doom and Gloom over Brexit, this time it's the IMF piling on. Are you sure your bank account is secure? Well there's a number of very sophisticated scams going around, so stay alert. And then, we look at the most (and least) valuable subject choices at University. All this and more on This is Money, presented in partnership with NS&I.
Guests: Lee Boyce,Simon Lambert
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