'Salad crisis' crunch talks & energy cap latest

<p><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vegetable-fruit-stocks-supermarkets-mark-spencer-brexit-weather-b1063289.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Supermarket bosses meet with ministers for ‘emergency meeting’</a>. <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lidl-supermarket-tesco-aldi-asda-morrisons-fruit-vegetable-rationing-shortage-b1063354.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lidl becomes the latest store to ration vegetables</a>. Salad crisis ‘not a one off event’. <a href="https://twitter.com/QUBFoodProf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Professor Christopher Elliot from Queen’s University Belfast</a> explains how the salad crisis might be fixed. Plus we speak with the Evening Standard's Business Editor Jonathan Prynn about <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/energy-bills-ofgem-price-cap-electricity-uk-government-grant-april-b1063247.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the upcoming rise in energy bills</a>, and whether gas costs will go down this year. In this episode:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The government’s switch from ‘just a blip’ to emergency meeting</li><li>How climate change is the ‘number one issue’</li><li>Why Europe thinks of the UK as the ‘customer of last resort'</li><li>Energy Bills: why they’re going up from April</li><li>Will the energy rebate scheme be extended?</li><li>Could oil and gas prices drop any time soon?</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/EveningStandard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Follow us on Twitter</a> #TheLeaderPodcast</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>