Gavin Friend
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7,937 appearances
60 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Gavin Friend’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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not going to do much for a month or so and then it's going to drive higher up through from from 2.8 through 3% up towards four.
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That's the thing coming over the next, you know, several months.
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Oh.
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Yeah, yeah, exact exactly that.
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And I mean there's there's no way they can avoid this.
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The government is trying to do stuff.
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There's a speech coming from Rachel Reeves today on i initiatives and bits and pieces.
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They've been trying to lean on supermarkets to kind of cap or freeze uh prices of essentials.
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That's got a really big pushback from the supermarket, so that's not going to be announced.
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Not quite sure what it is she's gonna be announcing.
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I mean it's encouraging that the government's looking at measures to try and keep prices at bay, but you know, trying to intervere interfere with the free market isn't something that has worked.
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Yeah, so there were there was Bailey and uh one of the Hawks, Catherine uh Mann and then two of the doves, um, uh Dingra and Breedon and familiar lines really, you know, they're all they're they're they're all making the point that actually we've had a tightening of policy because we've pulled out the two cuts that were priced and expected to to hikes.
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Uh, you know, there's the so there's been a tightening of financial conditions.
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That needs to be taken into account, even even man, you know, understands.
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that and she's making that point.
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They're all basically you know underlining the issue that there doesn't seem to be um you know much concern uh about pay bargaining at the moment it's a thing they're looking they're looking at but again they're all looking at the weakness in the labor market um you know and uh uh uh the the idea of course these numbers these these these comments come
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after the CPI that was softer as discussed than yesterday's um softer wage numbers and broadly weaker labor market numbers where firms are, you know, um they're they're they're sacking workers to a greater degree, they're putting hiring plans on hold.
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Uh none of this is is positive.
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And and it's it's happening in real time.
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So the so the the NPC members can see this and they're reacting to it.
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