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Take so long to prepare and it's all over so quickly. If you've got anything you didn't like,

then I at least hope you get the receipt. We'll talk about the budget at the moment with

the Esther Weber and Robert Crabton. Coming up in our big thing,

belt tightening of a different kind. The government's launching a £100 million drive to get us

all to lose weight. We speak to pro-leath about whether or not it's going to work and why we should

all maybe step away from the cakes. Yeah, that's coming up next. First, let's kick off with

our columnist panel. It's Thursday, so it must be WebCram, it's Esther Weber and Robert Crabton.

I'll ask you for your 1960s revivals in a moment. But the first, let's talk about this

budget thing that everyone seems to be talking about. Just put out the IFS Institute of Physical

Studies are doing their briefing right now. They've said that Richardson's expanding plans to

help address the UK's battered public finances, following the pandemic crisis, do not look

deliverable, at least without considerable pain. How is actually going to fix the public finances

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