Winners and losers
On today's Daily Politics, we look at the winners and losers in the recession so far. In fact, there are precious few winners -- unless you are a bankruptcy lawyer -- but some are doing less badly than others. The Institute for Fiscal studies has pointed out that better-off households with cash to spend are benefiting from low inflation - indeed near deflation -- while poorer households are still facing rising prices on necessities, such as food and fuel, at a time when their incomes are static at best.
We'll be live in Bournemouth with a group of pensioners, who are suffering not just from higher prices, but miniscule interest on their savings.
Also on today's programme we hope to be live from Northern Ireland where at lunchtime today to show their anger at the murder of two soldiers and a policeman by renegade IRA killers.
Our Political Editor, Nick Robinson, joins us at midday for PMQs, the first Brown v Cameron match for three weeks. Two weeks ago Mr Cameron's young son died and PMQs was suspended; last week Mr Brown was in Washington. No doubt Northern Ireland will feature prominently, though all parties are pretty much united in condemning what's happening there. But Mr Cameron might not be able to resist the PM's role on the merger of HBOS with Lloyds, which has had some pretty disastrous consequences for Lloyds.
We'll have Sir Parick Moore on the programme. He's angry that the
Our guests of the day are Cabinet Office minister , he'll be talking to us about the government's plans for public sector reform, and from the Conservative Party their Work and Pensions spokesperson .
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