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Transcripts For BBCNEWS The Context with Christian Fraser 20240707



you will see it like never before. tonight with the context, the former mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings blake, and the former uk ambassador to paris and national security advisor, lord peter ricketts. hello, welcome to the programme. it s hard to overstate how poorly the british government s fiscal event on friday has been received by financial markets. nothing in recent history compares with the price moves we have seen since. not brexit, not covid, 9/11 not even the uk s ejection from the exchange rate mechanism. the pound has slumped to its lowest ever level against the dollar. and the rate on short term gilts is now higher than italy or greece. 0rdinarily, tax cuts to promote growth might be welcomed by the city, when they are properly costed. but the government s critics would say that if there s no framework for the size of borrowing, nor any timeframe established to deliver the growth the treasury is chasing, then don t be surprised if markets are spoo ....

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