A World to Win: The War on the Poor w/ Alfie Stirling
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🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, dissect the UK Chancellor’s spring statement. It looks set to contain very few of the measures that would be necessary to tackle the cost of living crisis, which we discussed last week with Gary Stevenson. Rishi Sunak will say there’s no money left to support people forced to choose between eating and heating—but have the Tories grossly underestimated the extent of this crisis, and will it come back to bite them?
Check out NEF’s report on the subject here: https://neweconomics.org/2022/03/23-4-million-people-unable-to-afford-the-cost-of-living
A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of A World To Win. This week I am talking to Alfie |
| 0:17.5 | Sterling, who is the Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation, and we are giving |
| 0:21.8 | you another episode this week, trialing our new, shorter, more discursive format. |
| 0:27.6 | Well Alfie and I are just going to have a bit of a chat about what is likely to be in |
| 0:31.2 | the spring statement, which I think by the time this comes out, we already have been announced. |
| 0:37.3 | So Alfie and I are talking a bit about the cost of living crisis, the case for being |
| 0:42.0 | able to kind of spend more in order to counter that, and of course, what Alfie would do |
| 0:47.1 | if he was in our dream world, Chancellor of the Exchequer. So please do share this episode |
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| 1:00.8 | us on Patreon so we can carry on bringing you this, in my opinion, excellent content. |
| 1:06.7 | We are at patreon.com slash A World To Win pod. And please let us know what you think about |
| 1:11.4 | this new format. We had some really positive responses to our episode with Gary Stephenson |
| 1:15.8 | last week, so keep that feedback rolling in. |
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