Chris Blackhurst
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And the buses don't work, by the way.
I mean, that's one of the problems.
That's why they don't go on buses.
It's not just the fare.
Then the third thing he's done so far, £1,000...
um effectively cutting off the vat the the the vat bill for pubs well i can i can say hand on heart no pub in britain and they're closing fairly regularly no pub in britain has gone to the wall for the sake of a thousand pounds what sends a pub under is a lot more than a thousand pounds so
these are okay sums of money if you're a mayor but put them on the national stage they don't sound very much i mean and there's one more thing i'd say
which is crucial, is that as Mayor Andy Burnham didn't really have to take decisions.
That's not how our mayoral system works.
He received money from government, not much, he wasn't able to tax, he wasn't to do a lot of the things he can do now.
Suddenly he's got to take decisions and this is a much bigger thing to be doing.
It's a very good question.
I mean, look, the thing about the oil price is that ever since the Iran-US-Israel war started, everyone feared that prices were going to go through the roof and keep going up and up and up.
they didn't, they fell back.
And they fell back every time there's been an attempt to get the two sides around the table, they've fallen, the Strait of Hormuz has reopened, then it's closed, then it's reopened.
So the feeling is that, and oil is going through pipelines now into the Red Sea and avoiding the Strait of Hormuz.
So,
The oil price danger, it might go high, it might go higher, and it might stay there.
But on the other hand, it might not.
Nevertheless, you're quite right.
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