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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Shumaila Iftikhar

Meet Emmanuel Asuquo, the money guru in the new BBC documentary ‘Money and Me, Our Money-Saving Story’

Emmanuel is a financial adviser. He appears on TV, travelling across the UK to help people struggling financially

(Picture: David Terry/BBC)

Households in Britain are suffering the hardest knock on their incomes than any other G7 nation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported. In addition, the Office for National Statistics reported nine out of 10 adults are experiencing increased living costs.

Born and raised on a council estate in Tower Hamlets, the East London borough that has seen one of the highest rates of child poverty in recent times, Emmanuel’s own childhood circumstances are not unlike many others in today’s Britain amid the cost of living crisis.

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