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Hello, I'm Susan Hume, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday, the 3rd of March.

Coming up, the Chancellor insists she has the right plan for the economy.

A plan that is even more important in a world that in the last

few days has become yet more uncertain. But the Conservative shadow Chancellor says it was not a

spring statement but a surrender statement. Is that it? What utter complacency.

A Chancellor in denial.

Also tonight, as the UK deploys a warship to protect an RAF base in Cyprus,

we hear from an MP with family there. My eight-year-old grandson, Ronnie, along with his mum and dad,

spent Sunday night on the bathroom floor in

RAF Akateri until they got the old clear at 3am in the morning.

And a teacher and writer explains why teenagers don't read for fun.

I told my students I was coming here and I told them guys, you know, why do you guys not

read? And a lot of them is like, miss, but we have TikTok. What's the point? But first, the Chancellor's Spring Economic

Update had been largely planned out before the dramatic and sudden attacks by Israel and the US

on Iran. Over the ensuing days, the conflict has spread, gas and oil prices have soared. As Rachel Reeves stood up

in a pact commons, she acknowledged right away that those events may change some of her expectations.

But she began by insisting the economy was in safe hands. This government has the right economic plan for our country.

Tory Gearing drowned around. This government has the right economic plan for our country. A plan?

Tory Gearing drowned her out till the speaker shushed them and she could carry on.

A plan that is even more important in a world that in the last few days has become yet

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