Money Talks with Liam Halligan

Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.

In this episode, Liam talks to Steve Hardeman, MD of Clevedon Fasteners. Based in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, the company manufactures cold-formed components for use in commercial and automotive markets world-wide.

Formed in 1939 to supply the aircraft industry, Clevedon Fasteners specializes in bespoke production, with components heat-treated or plated to any commercially available finish.

In this wide-ranging interview, Hardeman describes how the company has managed through lockdown, and his vision for the future of both Clevedon Fasteners and UK manufacturing.

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Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.   

In this episode, Liam talks to Patrick Dardis, the CEO of Youngs – which operates hundreds of pubs, employing thousands of people, while turning over hundreds of millions of pounds. 

The hospitality industry has been calling on the government to provide a package of financial support as Plan B and guidance on limiting social interactions in the lead up to Christmas has led to much quieter pubs and restaurants. 

Consumer confidence has nose-dived as the Omicron variant continues to spread – hitting the hospitality sector during the crucial weeks before Christmas, traditionally the busiest time of the year, when firms build cash surpluses to see them through quieter months. 

In this wide-ranging discussion, Dardis outlines his fears about the future of the UK’s hospitality industry, while calling for more widespread assistance from government.

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Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.   

In this episode, Liam talks to Nick Allan, CEO of Control Risks – one of the UK’s leading security and intelligence consultancies. Control risks has almost fifty years’ experience managing everything from kidnap and ransom situations to providing specialised commercial and political research – mainly for corporate clients working in overseas jurisdictions.

In this rare interview, Allan gives his uniquely well-informed take on the main strategic, diplomatic and geo-political risks facing businesses and nation states across the world today.

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Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.   

In this episode, Liam talks to Andrew Baxter, CEO of Europa Worldwide Group – one of the UK’s biggest logistics companies. Specialising in freight forwarding and distribution across numerous countries, Europa turns over several hundred million pounds each year and employs over 1,000 people in the UK, Hong Kong and elsewhere.

In this wide-ranging interview, Andrew and Liam discuss the HGV driver shortage, supply chain price pressures and why Andrew thinks current measures of UK inflation seriously under-estimate the prices rises faced by producers, distributors and, ultimately, consumers as well.

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Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.

In this episode, Liam talks to Glen Wheeler, a chef and restauranteur – who owns and runs the “28 At The Hollow” restaurant in Enniskillen, Fermanagh. Glen was the first contestant from Northern Ireland to compete in the BBC’s Great British Menu competition for professional chefs – an experience he described as “a huge honour”.

Before opening his own restaurant, he worked at leading Michelin-starred restaurants across the world, including Gordon Ramsey’s “Royal Hospital Road” in London and a period as Head Chef at MacNean House, working under one of Ireland’s most respected chefs Neven Maguire.

Having grown-up in Enniskillen, Glen returned to his hometown to set up “28 At The Hollow” – which he runs with his wife Zara McHugh. In this wide-ranging discussion – first broadcast as part of “GB News Northern Ireland week” in November 2021 – Glen discusses how he grew up during “The Troubles” but is now hopeful and optimistic about Northern Ireland’s future.

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Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.   

In this episode, Liam talks to Mark Durkin, Dean of Ulster University Business School. Recorded at the Titanic Visitor Centre in Belfast, this interview outlines the development of the Northern Ireland economy since its shipbuilding hey-day, highlighting the growing importance of high-tech, medical and life sciences, and well as tourism and hospitality.

Durkin discusses the crucial impact of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in improving Northern Ireland’s business environment – and the growing economic importance of the nation’s higher education sector. This discussion was originally broadcast as part of “GB News Northern Ireland week” in November 2021.

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Money Talks – a series of interviews with Liam Halligan, Economics and Business Editor of GB News.   

In this episode, Liam talks to Ciaran O’Hagan – Managing Director of Specialist Joinery Group, near Coleraine in Northern Ireland. A family-owned company, SJG has been trading since the late 1980s, and employs around 150 people. Producing bespoke joinery in wood, metal and glass, SPG has fulfilled prestigious contracts across the world – and was also commissioned to design, build and install the Altar furniture for the Papal Mass during the Pope’s visit to Ireland in 2018.

In this wide-ranging interview, O’Hagan draws on his extensive business experience as he describes his vision of Northern Ireland’s commercial future. This interview was originally broadcast as part of “GB News Northern Ireland week” in November 2021.

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In this episode, Liam talks to Francis Hellyer, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of London Theatre Direct a leading business is selling theatre tickets.

As Covid continues to affect live events we discusses how theatre and live shows adapt and stay open. Francis Kelly also discusses how his company remains innovative in a competitive market.

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In this episode, Liam talks to Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Biographer of John Maynard Keynes – the most influential economist of the 20th century.

In this wide-ranging interview, Skidelsky discusses how he helped David Owen to set up the SDP in the early 1980s, how economic policymaking works and how he developed from a historian into an economist.

“Britain’s history was forged outside Europe, not within Europe,” Lord Skidelsky remarks, reflecting on the UK’s vote to leave the EU, and why the efforts of Remain-voting MPs and peers to hold a second referendum in a bid to reverse Brexit were in his words “completely wrong”.

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In this episode, Liam talks to Richard Bartlett, UK and Ireland Manager of KlearNow, a global company specialising in logistics and customs clearance.

As the global economy struggles to reboot after lockdown, supply chain issues - hindering the movement of goods within and between countries - are a major cause of inflation.

Such snarl-ups lead to higher prices for producers which then get passed on - while slowing down economic growth as well. Richard Bartlett gives an insiders’ account of how the operation of UK supply chains and ports have been impacted by both Brexit and lockdown.

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