Christopher Luxon
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2,961 appearances
36 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Christopher Luxon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because it's such a big intervention that you should make sure that it is reassured by the very best competition experts you've got, all the best economists with the right econometrics to actually confirm all the other advice that we've had thus far.
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So everything, there's been, you know this, politicians have looked at this, they've had reviews up forever.
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All of that analysis has come together, I think, in a pretty sharp place to say banner separation into three nationwide chains of good size, good scale, each of them competing with each other will lead to more choice, more price pressure, more locations, all of that good stuff that you get from competition.
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Well, because also there's been a huge component around inflation, you know, generally.
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Yes, there's been competitive challenges in this market.
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And, you know, don't take my word for it.
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Don't take Chris Quinn's word for it.
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Go look at the independent experts.
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Go look at the OECD who have said every year for the last three years I've been there, there's a real problem with your supermarket sector.
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That's your very uncompetitive supermarket sector, given what they see internationally as well.
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But the reality is there's been high inflation.
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Yep, we had 12.3% of food inflation under Labour.
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That's why us getting spending, inflation, under control, interest rates down, all that good stuff is important, and growth.
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But equally, when you strip that away, you still have a structural competitive problem in the sector.
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You can rail at me all day long and say, look, Chris, you guys are all about business.
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Yeah, we are.
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We're all about free enterprise and trading enterprise.
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There's one group you haven't heard it from.
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That's the suppliers.
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But they're not putting their head above the parapet because they know there's a power imbalance
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