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Kay Oliver: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Starmer calling an emergency meeting on economy · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Oliver our UK corresponds with us Hello, Okay, Hello Heather. Right,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a Cobra meeting today is the absolutely we
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  Speaker 2: have obviously a big round of talks going on in
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  Speaker 2: Downing Street at the time when UK borrowing costs hit
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  Speaker 2: their highest level since the two thousand and eight financial crash.
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  Speaker 2: The cost of energy is the big question here today,
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  Speaker 2: tied up with this Middle East conflict, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: the Governor of the Bank of England high level talks
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  Speaker 2: and they are going to have to come up with
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  Speaker 2: plans to stop prices soaring here completely out of control.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen four petrol price rises, diesel price rises in
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  Speaker 2: four in a week here here there, and it's just
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  Speaker 2: literally getting quite quite scary for general households wore coping
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  Speaker 2: with the cost of living here so high. On the
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  Speaker 2: agenda today, we're going to have people the government talking
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  Speaker 2: about petrol, diesel, household energy, food mortgages, how they can
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  Speaker 2: stop the general rise that's going on here and really
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  Speaker 2: calm some of the fears that are coming forward from
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  Speaker 2: people as they've seen these tremendous rises as well as
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  Speaker 2: the conflict that's going on the Middle East. And also
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend we heard about the effect of perhaps
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  Speaker 2: is the Israeli claims that long range missiles could hit
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  Speaker 2: the capitals of Europe. So lots to talk about in
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  Speaker 2: Downing Street today at this Cobra meeting. Have you guys
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  Speaker 2: seen any of this panic buying that we've been seeing
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  Speaker 2: in parts of the country. Well, they're trying to stop that. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying we've got enough fuel here for the next
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  Speaker 2: two months. But yes, people are being encouraged here. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen panic buying, not the cues that we've seen
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  Speaker 2: in previous years, but we have seen people keeping their
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  Speaker 2: kind of cars topped up and I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: panic buying that they're keen to stop before it gets
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  Speaker 2: out of control. But with with four lots of price
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  Speaker 2: rises in a week, I think it gives you some
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  Speaker 2: idea of what's going on here. How can you explain
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  Speaker 2: these attacks on the ambulance service, Well, it's it's happened
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  Speaker 2: just in the last couple of hours here. It's basically
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  Speaker 2: being viewed by police as an anti Semitic attack. They've
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  Speaker 2: had four ambulances out of six operated by a private
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  Speaker 2: Jewish company in Golders Green, lots of very very big
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  Speaker 2: Jewish community there. They have been attacked, They've had they've
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  Speaker 2: been firebomb basically oxygen cylinders have exploded. People living in
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  Speaker 2: nearby communities evacuated Jewish community are saying it's an attack
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  Speaker 2: on their obviously on a private ambulance service that they
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  Speaker 2: run exclusively for their community. So these these ambulances have
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  Speaker 2: gone up, the CCTV of three suspects running away, and
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish community are now and faith leaders extremely concerned
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  Speaker 2: about what's going on here. They have of course been
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  Speaker 2: on high alert for many, many years, but this is
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  Speaker 2: really the first time that this has actually happened in
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  Speaker 2: London and very very serious for the Jewish community.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Now do we know how Keir Starmer has taken the
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live sketch. Well, there's been a comment yet, Heather,
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  Speaker 2: As you can imagine, it's the special relationship yet again
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  Speaker 2: in question, if you've seen this Saturday Night Live sketch,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I really it's mocking, Sirkeir Starmer. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: has reposted it. It's a sketch that basically is showing
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  Speaker 2: our Prime Minister too frightened to answer the phone to
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump because he's scared to take a call about
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with Iran war. He's basically talking to
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  Speaker 2: his deputy David Lammy saying that what if Donald shouts
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  Speaker 2: at I'm too scared to take the call. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's not probably going to help the
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  Speaker 2: special relationship. But they're saying that Sir Keir Starmer is
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  Speaker 2: perhaps he does take a stand against Donald Stump, but
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, I should say, but whether forgive me, but
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  Speaker 2: whether or not this is being seen as any kind
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  Speaker 2: of strong stand is of course for everyone else to debate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah too, right, Donald Dumpey. Kay, thank you very much
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  Speaker 2: appreciated Kay Oliver, UK correspondent.
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