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Hello, I'm Mandy Baker, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 3rd of December, where a week on from the budget, the Conservative leader, still gunning for the Chancellor.

If she was a CEO, she would have been fired.

And she might, she might even have been prosecuted for market abuse.

The Prime Minister is incredulous.

She's completely losing the plot.

Also, why did the China spy trial collapse?

MPs and peers blame confusion.

And misaligned expectations, which at points can best be described as shambolic.

And the enduring appeal of the local newspaper.

It's where you go to find out what's happening. What new shops are opening in the high street?

What's that planning application that everybody's talking about?

Or why the heck have they put in that stupid roundabout near Mike's house?

But first, last Wednesday Prime Minister's questions was supercharged,

not so much because there was just half an hour to go before the budget,

but because we already knew what was in it.

The measures were released early in error

by the independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility,

which subsequently took responsibility

and its boss Richard Hughes resigned.

The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenock, reflected on that.

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