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Are Scottish Tories causing trouble for Rishi Sunak?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Dunn speaks to James Heale and Katy Balls about the slightly muted reaction to the budget. Labour has compared the announcements to Liz Truss's unfunded tax cuts and Scottish Tories have criticised the chancellor’s decision to extend the windfall tax on the profits of North Sea oil. But is this really the pre-election budget?  

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0:15.3

Hello, welcome to Coffhous Shorts.

0:20.7

I'm Lucy Dunn at the diary report at theator and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James

0:24.9

Seal. Today we're going to be discussing the fallout from Yes Day's budget. Katie, first

0:29.5

of all, I'll turn to you. What is the general reaction to the UK budget and what's a fallout that we've seen so far?

0:35.0

I think it's pretty mixed but it's also quite muted in the sense that I don't think there's much excitement,

0:41.0

nor is that much anger really on all sides.

0:45.0

I mean, they've got some, I think, if you look at the front pages, for example,

0:48.0

just to get a sense of where the papers are leaning,

0:50.0

it's all fairly predictable, the Guardian suggesting it's desperate,

0:55.0

effectively the telegraph focusing on something I don't think Jeremy Hunt quite delivered in the chamber,

1:00.0

which was this suggestion that having taken 4 p in total of national insurance if you combine

1:06.0

the budget with the autumn statement he would eventually like to get rid of national insurance

1:12.1

entirely it was more a point that he hinted at but

1:15.6

came clear after the address and the telegraph has led with that as you know

1:20.0

potentially a future and now you have a situation where labor is doing I would say

1:24.2

snazzy but I don't think it's a lot snazzy and a graphic merging Ritchie

1:29.2

student X face or Liz Truss's face to suggest that you know this is 40-something billion of unfunded tax cuts.

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