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NEW on #BBCNews10 sources in industry and Westminster expecting re Autumn Statement
- Energy Price Guarantee continues in a form for all households.
- bills for a typical household, from £2,500 a year now to just over £3,000. Without wd have been £4k
- big extra windfall tax
- Energy Price Guarantee continues in a form for all households.
- bills for a typical household, from £2,500 a year now to just over £3,000. Without wd have been £4k
- big extra windfall tax
Opposition response today also very important as I said here - my hunch is that Labour will back the OBR numbers to get debt falling after 5 years as it’s manifesto baseline - ie a 2% consolidation. Echoes of 1997, Ken Clarke’s v tight spending:
Doesn’t mean Labour will back causes or cure, but could be some controversy it identifies the same basic repair job logic… from this baseline further spending would have to be funded could help with credibility in markets of todays plans, that broad path kept whoever wins GE
What’s happening to food exports?Coming up on #bbcnews10 Bridport, Dorset fishing business owner Charlie Samway describes new 26 step process to export back across Channel what they catch in it... adamant a month in, having prepared extensively, these aren’t “teething problems..”
big one - newly compulsory Export Health Certificate - here being granted by visiting vet inspecting the fish (also required for many other foodstuffs) stamping every page and box, in English and French and sealing the lorry -which was then subsequently held at Dunkirk for 15 hrs 
Govt suggestion these are “teething problem” did not go down well here nor at clients Waterdance at Brixham harbour (a firm visited by PM in August 2019 and promised “no unnecessary form-filling”) there they said it was “insulting” as value of catch falls a third...
