Brian Parker
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1,041 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Apr
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They holiday closer to home.
They use public transport.
And we've certainly already seen a lot of that.
Okay.
So letting the petrol price rise is a way of allocating an increasingly scarce resource.
That's pretty much first year microeconomics.
To the extent that you've actually reduced the tax, while that does ease some of the pressure on consumers, ironically it actually does reduce inflation.
Right.
At least in the short term because the petrol price increases
It feeds into the calculation of the consumer pricing.
It's going to be reduced.
So measured inflation will actually go down.
Yeah, to get the inflation down.
And if you think about during COVID where subsidies, you know, making childcare free, for example.
So you saw a range of government measures which actually reduced measured inflation quite significantly.
And this is not the same degree, but I think the excise cut...
um does actually reduce measured inflation the the bigger issue another issue for this though and this is where politically it might get complicated for the government is that um if you say well i'm reducing the excise by let's say 20 25 cents or whatever and if we get another royal price shock and people uh the petrol price goes back up to where it was anyway um people say well it would it's a harder message to sell politically to say well you
Yes, that's not ideal, but it would have been even higher if it wasn't for the fact that we cut the excise.
Yeah, it's an interesting one.
I think with fuel, given the impact on your – the house is a bigger deal.
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