Autumn Statement Reaction
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt put a £20bn tax giveaway at the heart of his Autumn Statement. But will it be enough to win back disenchanted Tory voters? Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher is joined by the FT’s consumer editor Claer Barrett and economics commentator Chris Giles to analyse the package on offer. Plus, Political Fix regular George Parker gives his take on whether voters will be wooed by personal tax cuts.
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| 0:26.0 | Learn more at city.com slash we are city. It was very noticeable that there wasn't really anything in it for young people. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to Political Fix, your essential insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times. I'm Lucy Fisher. |
| 0:52.0 | The F.G's Claire Barrett there, host of our Money Clinic |
| 0:55.2 | podcast on the government's autumn statement. We'll take a look at the 20 |
| 0:59.7 | billion-pound tax giveaway unveiled on Wednesday and what all this means for the |
| 1:03.8 | Conservatives chances at the next election. Claire joins me now in the studio, hi Claire |
| 1:08.9 | Hello. Also here are political fix regular George Hi George. Hi George. |
| 1:13.3 | Hi there, Lucie. |
| 1:14.3 | And the F.T's economics commentator Chris Jiles. |
| 1:16.8 | Hi Chris. |
| 1:17.8 | Hi Lucy. |
| 1:18.8 | You're a veteran of how many autumn statements Chris? |
| 1:21.4 | Uh, autumn statements, Chris? Autumn statements specifically, about 30, and autumn statements are budget is over 50. |
| 1:27.0 | Great, so you can put this in some historical context for us. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, it's always a big... us. FTE H-Q, Bracken House, has been a buzz, there's been smoke coming off the keyboards George |
| 1:44.2 | hasn't there in the parliamentary office, because in some ways this felt a bigger autumn statement |
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