14/06/2025
The Week in Westminster
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4.0 • 258 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pippa Crerar of The Guardian assesses the latest developments at Westminster.
Pippa takes a closer look at Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spending Review with the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Conservative MP John Glen and Labour’s Dame Siobhain McDonagh, who sits on the Treasury Select Committee.
How to prepare for an ageing society is the subject of an inquiry by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee and Pippa discusses this with Labour peer, Stewart Wood, who chairs the committee and Daily Telegraph columnist Annabel Denham.
Pippa interviews the Big Issue founder and crossbench peer, John Bird about the scrapping of the 200-year-old Vagrancy Act which will decriminalise rough sleeping in England and Wales.
And, following the government's u-turn on winter fuel this week, David Gauke who was a Treasury minister at the time of what became known as the omnishambles budget under George Osborne and former BBC presenter Carolyn Quinn discuss famous political u-turns.
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| 0:00.0 | This is PIPA Carreira from The Guardian with the week in Westminster. |
| 0:08.7 | This week brought what's likely to be one of the most significant events of this entire Parliament, |
| 0:13.6 | Rachel Reeves' spending review, at which she allocated departmental budgets for the next three years. |
| 0:19.5 | The NHS and defence were big winners, |
| 0:21.8 | and much of the Chancellor's focus on Wednesday |
| 0:23.8 | was on £113 billion worth of capital investment |
| 0:27.9 | that will go in areas like affordable housing and energy, |
| 0:30.9 | which she hopes will boost economic growth. |
| 0:32.9 | We are renewing Britain. |
| 0:36.2 | But I know that too many people, in too many parts of our country are yet to feel it. |
| 0:43.3 | This government's task, my chance a task as Chancellor, |
| 0:48.5 | and the purpose of this spending review is to change that. |
| 0:52.1 | But the government faces a significant challenge to convince voters that Labour can actually |
| 0:57.3 | deliver the change it is promised. |
| 0:59.6 | Many people will also feel the deep cuts in some department's day-to-day budgets in their |
| 1:04.2 | own lives. |
| 1:05.7 | In addition, some Labour MPs are still anxious about the impact of planned welfare reforms |
| 1:10.8 | and economists are warning that taxes could go up again this autumn. |
| 1:15.2 | Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, led for the Tories. |
| 1:18.4 | This is the spin now tax later review. |
| 1:22.8 | Because the right honourable lady knows she will need to come back here in the autumn with yet more taxes. |
| 1:29.3 | Yes. |
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