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Gail Downey: UK correspondent on the UK Government increasing funding for expansions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: And we're going to the UK Gale Downies with us Hi, Gail, Hi, Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely to have you on the show. Tell us about
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  Speaker 2: the It sounds a bit like our government yours is
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  Speaker 2: fighting for growth.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And the Chancellor, Rachel Reaves has been
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  Speaker 3: talking about a major announcement for a week now and
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  Speaker 3: today is the day she's going to make that major announcement,
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  Speaker 3: which is expected to include the government giving it support
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  Speaker 3: for a third runway at Hethrow Airport, together with expansion
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  Speaker 3: plans at Gatwick and Luton. So the government can't prejudge
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  Speaker 3: the results of any planning application, but the boss of
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  Speaker 3: Heathrow has said the airport needed a clear steer from
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  Speaker 3: the government by the end of this year. He's argued
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  Speaker 3: the expansion is needed to keep up with rival airports
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  Speaker 3: in Europe which have fewer passengers and more runways. Are
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  Speaker 3: given examples. So Heathrow head eighty million passengers in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three and has two runways. Meanwhile, Skipple Airport at
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  Speaker 3: Amsterdam has six runways. Dealing with around sixty million passengers
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  Speaker 3: a year. However, any plans for expansion third Runway have
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  Speaker 3: been opposed in the past and probably in the future
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  Speaker 3: by environmentalists and residents living near the airport, and even
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  Speaker 3: some labor MPs. The Tories say Rachel reeves plans have
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  Speaker 3: been hastily cobbled together.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, mate, let's talk about these numbers you've got for
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  Speaker 2: us a healthy food, a basket of healthy food versus
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  Speaker 2: a basket of not so healthy food. What's the difference.
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  Speaker 3: The difference is that a basket of healthy food, so
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  Speaker 3: it cost around sixteen dollars for basically a thousand calories
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  Speaker 3: of healthy food is twice as much as that of
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  Speaker 3: eight dollars for the equivalent of less healthy food such
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  Speaker 3: as ready meals and process mates. And it's analysis that's
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  Speaker 3: been done via the UK charity, the Food Foundation, which
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  Speaker 3: is worrying them because it says low income families simply
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  Speaker 3: can't afford to eat healthily. So how it calculated is
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  Speaker 3: it took the average price of four hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: food items that are used by the Office of National
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  Speaker 3: Statistics to calculate monthly inflation. It then graded the foods
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  Speaker 3: on their nutritional value, and that the concern, of course,
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  Speaker 3: as I mentioned, is the fact that so many households
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  Speaker 3: it's estimated eight million households in the UK are dealing
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  Speaker 3: with food insecurities and have cut back on healthy food
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  Speaker 3: because of that.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting basically double, isn't it? The bear stuff costs you double?
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of expensive for you is a brut and for
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  Speaker 2: me is a key. We we in basically anyone who's
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  Speaker 2: outside of the EU, we're going to have to pay
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  Speaker 2: more to see the Mona Lisa.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's part of a major refurbishment of the Louver
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  Speaker 3: where the Mona Lisa is housed. And it was the
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  Speaker 3: French President Emmanuel Macron who talked about the expansion fans yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, he's running an international competition to find out
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  Speaker 3: find an architect or planner whoever to design the refurbishment,
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  Speaker 3: and he says that he's taking the Mona Lisa from
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  Speaker 3: its current position in the loop, going to put it
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  Speaker 3: into a separate exhibition space. Alongside that, as you say,
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  Speaker 3: non EU residents like yourself and myself are going to
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  Speaker 3: be charged more. He hasn't explained why we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be charged more, but he just said we will be
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  Speaker 3: charged more.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose someone's going to pay for it. They and
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  Speaker 2: it looks like it's our scale. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: That scale downy. Have a great day. Are UK correspondent with.
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