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And me, Steph McGovern.

Shall we talk global economics now?

It's nearly two months on now, isn't it, from the US-Israel attack on Iran.

The Strait of Hormuz, no matter what the leaders of Iran or the US are saying, there's still not much getting through there, if anything.

It's chaos still, despite ceasefires and everything else.

Yeah.

And that is... So, I mean, it's just been a very volatile time on the markets, Robert, hasn't it?

But you're already seeing how it is tangibly impacting the cost of living here.

So like petrol and diesel, that's already gone up straight away because of it.

And if you look at the latest inflation figures, that's now pushing inflation up when everyone was talking about it coming down a bit before the Middle East all kicked off.

And food prices as well.

If you look at how much food's going up by every year, it's something like...

Nearly 4% year on year, the increase in food costs.