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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee Have Shots.

I'm Cindy Ewan and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson, Kate Andrews and Jane Forsytham.

We're going to chew over the autumn statement now that we've had a bit more time to think about it.

Fraser, why don't you start by just giving us a brief overview of your thoughts, feelings, emotions, dreams?

I probably shouldn't save us on the podcast, but we had a number of cover options for the spectator this week.

One of them was Richie Sinek and Jeremy Hunt with a grave, overseeing grave, putting some earth into it.

It was a beautiful image.

The headline I was going to do was the burial of growth, the end of growth, the requiem for growth, that kind of thing.

Right now I'm sitting here thinking maybe we should have ran the image because it so perfectly fits my mood and what I think has happened.

That the conservative party is pretty much given up on any growth agenda and now regard themselves as undertakers

or to put it in a corporates way that they're basically putting the British economy into receivership

rather than the YouTube executive coming to give it your direction life and an agenda.

Now I didn't do that in the cover because of course this is not the weekly Fraser Nelson.

Well, it's a good mind mood. I knew that James and Kate saw it differently.

So we just did a more...

Well, let's let them speak for themselves. James, why don't you give us your take?

So, I mean the first thing to say, as Kate has written this, that the era of cheap money is over around the world.

I mean the mistake that Liz Truss and Positquata made was that they were about to go on a big borrowing spree just as this era of cheap money is coming to an end.

And that's why the UK's borrowing cost spiked.

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