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Now on with the Spiked Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week as ever we have

Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater. Hello? And Spiked columnist Ella Wheelen.

Hi. Coming up on the show, the coronavirus budget, the unraveling of the SMP and the cancellation of Dr.

Seuss.

The enormous cost of shoring up the economy has been spelled out by the Chancellor in today's budget.

In the first two years it's spend spend, spend, but then it switches to an aggressive series of tax hikes and spending cuts.

The furlough extended to September. We're going long.

What we got was a budget that papered over the cracks rather than rebuilding the foundations.

Chancellor Rishy Sunak unveiled his first official budget since the UK entered lockdown last year.

At the last budget a year ago, Sunak expected to set aside just 12 billion pounds in funding for measures to cope with the

coronavirus. This week he revealed that government spending on the pandemic has

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