Was that as good as it gets for savers this time round?

Savers have been dealt a series of blows over the summer and the latest came this week with an NS&I cut, so was that as good as it gets this time round?

 

On this week’s podcast, Simon Lambert, Sarah Davidson and Georgie Frost look at why savings rates have started to slip again, and how the mortgage price war, stuttering UK property market and even Donald Trump’s trade spat with China fit in with that.

 

Meanwhile, after one of the most tumultuous weeks in British politics in a decade – at the end of which we are still unsure whether a no-deal Brexit or General Election are on the cards or out of the question – the team look at how to protect yourself against the fallout.

 

Should you act to bolster your savings, mortgage, pension and investments against potential risks? 

 

Is that just good financial planning anyway? 

 

Does stock piling food ever make sense?

 

The trio look at the expert advice and share their opinions on those topics.

 

Away from the Brexit row, a domestic political hot potato was being thrown around at the beginning of this week too, Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell’s idea for right to buy for tenants to purchase their landlord’s buy-to-let property a discount.

 

The team look at what the concept is, whether this could ever work and who would foot the bill?

 

And finally, are electric cars greener once you factor in the build and the battery? A new survey says it has the answer.