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The longer the war in the Middle East continues, the more likely it is there will be economic damage in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer has warned.The Prime Minister insisted the economy was resilient and well placed to absorb the “likely impact” on households and businesses.He acknowledged people’s concerns about the threat of rising bills in the wake of the US-Israeli assault on Iran and Tehran’s reprisals against countries across the region.Oil prices have soared above 100 dollars a barrel for the first time since 2022 in response to the crisis.

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00:01Yeah, the details of the panel being put out later this, but I think it's really important that that is
00:08there because we need the, how do you look up to here, do you look up to here, right, right,
00:22what are you doing, and we're doing our work at the EU on how we can get super,
00:28people will sense, you will sense, I think that the longer this goes on, the more likely the potential for
00:36an impact on our economy, impact into the lives and households of everybody and every business, and our job is
00:44to get ahead of that, to look around the corner, assess the risks, monitor the risks, and work with others
00:49in relation to that.
00:50So I do understand the anxiety now, nine days into this conflict, where a number of people will be saying,
00:56well, now is the situation going to get worse, and how's it going to impact me and my family?
01:03The moment what we're doing is monitoring the risk, working with others to mitigate the risk, the Chancellor is talking
01:11to the Bank of England every day to make sure that we're ahead of that.
01:15I would just say on energy prices for households, the energy price cap is in place until June, and therefore
01:23we're not anticipating that that is going to change,
01:27which will give a degree of reassurance, but of course businesses and others will be concerned to watch carefully what's
01:33going on.
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