Amol Rajan

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3,997 appearances 23 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radical · Last Call for the Local: Are Old Pubs the Solution to Modern Crises? (Oisín Rogers) · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

So that means you go from making some money and businesses need to make money so you can go and feed your family and do things like that. matched

You go from making money to going into a net loss because of that one particular change. matched

VAT has gone up. matched

There's business rates that have gone up. matched

There's employer national insurance that's gone up. matched

There's also the minimum wage. matched

And the minimum wage is an interesting thing. matched

People feel kind of – it's become sort of an interesting political thing because people feel that if you argue against the minimum wage, you're basically saying you believe people should be poor. matched

Not necessarily the case. matched

Interestingly, Rishi Sunak is writing a – matched

A column in the Sunday Times wrote this piece recently saying that he got the minimum wage wrong. matched

He was very conscious that as a multimillionaire chancellor, he didn't want to be seen to be arguing against a high minimum wage. matched

But he thinks that it's now very, very clear that the rise in the minimum wage is having an effect, particularly on the employment of young people. matched

And if you didn't have such a big rise in the minimum wage, more young people would have jobs. matched

And we're talking at a time when one point whatever million young people are not in education, employment or training. matched

What kind of effect, more broadly speaking, whether it's your pub or else, what kind of effect is the rising minimum wage having on the capacity of pubs to employ people? matched

Exactly, exactly. matched

Okay, so these are all pressures that are sort of, as it were, centrally, you know, come from sort of government decisions. matched

What about just inflation? matched

I mean, you use a lot of energy, you use a lot of food and you have to buy an awful lot of beer. matched

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