Is the economy close to stalling?

The Times assistant editor Anne Ashworth, our economics editor Philip Aldrick, and our energy editor Robin Pagnamenta join us for this week's podcast. With Robert Miller away, Callum Jones is in the chair.The Bank of England is preparing publish its quarterly assessment of the current state of the economy. It comes amid warnings that the economy is now close to stalling after a “triple whammy” of particularly weak services, construction and manufacturing figures in April. What should we expect?An £18 billion pound plan to build a new nuclear power station in Somerset has been hit this week by an admission that engineers may have falsified vital safety tests. The Hinkley Point project has already been hit by delays - and it may well face more. How did it get into this mess?And parents helping their children onto the property ladder will be involved in a quarter of all property transactions this year. But how did the "Bank of Mum and Dad" get so big?

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