A Mini Judge Bit on the Mini Budget
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea take a look at Rishi Sunak's mini-budget, as well as the response of Anneliese Dodds, Labour's shadow chancellor. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle the counterfactual: what would Sajid Javid's chancellorship have looked like during this crisis?
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| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. In On today's new statesman podcast we discuss Rishi Sunak's mini budget and you ask |
| 1:28.3 | us how different would things be if Sadh Javavid was still Chancellor. |
| 1:39.3 | So Ritchie Sunak did his mini statement of kind of measures designed to stimulate the economy as the country kind of unlocks down but in some |
| 1:46.9 | ways that's a slightly weird thing because he so the kind of big measures were a |
| 1:51.8 | cut-in-stamp duty so you won't pay it on anything under the value of 50, I keep saying 50 grand, 500 grand, a very big difference, a thousand pound per job, one-off payment to any firm or business which retains a |
| 2:07.4 | currently furloughed employee until January and a 50% off meal voucher in participating outlets with a cap value of up to 10 pounds. |
| 2:18.0 | These are all stimulus measures. |
| 2:20.0 | I think there are kind of, there are two criticisms, one of which I think there are kind of there are two criticisms one of which I think is |
| 2:24.5 | actually broadly is incorrect but is sort of is that it's incidentally correct but |
| 2:29.5 | it's not kind of particularly important which is then it's quite small and the other is the kind of, particularly important, which is that it's quite small, and the other is the kind of like, |
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