Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it is there?

Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Delicious. Hello and welcome to another budget special edition of the rest is money with me, Robert

Perston.

And me, Steph McGovern.

So this special episode is to do with some chaos that's kicked off in the last couple of days.

If there wasn't enough already.

And you know, for months on this podcast, we've been talking about the grim state of our public finances

and how big the black hole is.

And what Rachel Reeves is going to do about it or might do about it in the budget

to meet her fiscal rules, not break election manifestos or break them,

depending on, you know, how you're looking at it.

And essentially, fill the black hole.

Now, a lot of that analysis about how big the black hole is has been

based on OBR forecasting that we've been told about from the government. But it turns out

that we've not been given the whole picture by the Treasury. And that is why it's all got

dramatic. And Robert, I know you're miffed about this.

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