Supermarket bosses meet with ministers for ‘emergency meeting’. Lidl becomes the latest store to ration vegetables. Salad crisis ‘not a one off event’. Professor Christopher Elliot from Queen’s University Belfast explains how the salad crisis might be fixed. Plus we speak with the Evening Standard's Business Editor Jonathan Prynn about the upcoming rise in energy bills, and whether gas costs will go down this year. In this episode:

• The government’s switch from ‘just a blip’ to emergency meeting
• How climate change is the ‘number one issue’
• Why Europe thinks of the UK as the ‘customer of last resort'
• Energy Bills: why they’re going up from April
• Will the energy rebate scheme be extended?
• Could oil and gas prices drop any time soon?

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