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With what we were expecting. i think the message, the overall message of the gdp is that the uk economy started the new year in a slightly stronger position than would have been expected. i think the big question is now what does 2022 hold? what does 2022 hold? because talking to people here on the factory floor, they are really worried that their wages are not keeping up with price increases. and i'm sure that's a valid concern. i think a lot of workers across all sorts of industries are having that question. so as you just mentioned, we had the highest growth since i believe the early 1940s ...

Question. so as you just mentioned, we had the highest growth since i believe the early 1940s in 2021. now that coupled up with a big drop in the size of the labour force. they still have about a million workers missing who have either dropped out of the workforce, they could have moved out of the uk, so there is a lot of pressure on wages, which is feeding into the high levels of inflation, along with the higher energy prices and higher input prices overall. so all of that is contributing to a higher price level and a lot of people are wondering just how high of a raise they would need this y...

Up with this? former walmart ceo bill simon is with us. how long can the consumer hang on here? inflation is outpacing wage growth. if all the extra money you're earning is going to your grocery bill, it doesn't do anything anybody good. >> no, you're right. the consumer has been remarkably resilient the last two years of pandemic and systems shock and shut down. i think they've reached the end. they're looking at the utter shock of walking into an american supermarket and seeing empty shelves and pricing that, you know, really hurt not only the pocketbook but the family and the psyche of the ...

Service or being unable to afford it. yes, companies are making a lot of money. they have not found resistance passing along those higher prices. and some, indeed, have raised prices more than their input prices because the market would bear it. it is, after all, a free market. and part of the problem, the administration hinl hints at, t feel they overemphasize it, but there is a problem that the u.s. economy is more centralized, more monopolized than it used to be, so more companies do appear to have that pricing power, and those are the companies that dom comes forward on cnbc and he goes, y...

Situation will continue, a country that simply doesn't have enough homes to meet demand, where tens and tens of thousands of houses lay empty and unused. stephen murphy, sky news. >> now, the russian invasion of ukraine has led to rising costs of fertilizer animal feed and fuel which are affecting farmers and are set to be passed on to consumers. there is a warning that increases in food prices are inevitable, as production costs soar due to the war in ukraine, comes as farmers warn that the impact on their industry has been seismic. joining me now is john -- hughes a farm manager in greenvill...