Budget: Are tax cuts the vote winner they seem?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
To afford the move, funding to public services could be slashed - but Jeremy Hunt has insisted any cuts will be done "responsibly".
On today's episode, Sophy Ridge looks ahead to the budget. She's joined by deputy political editor Sam Coates and pollster Scarlett Maguire to unpack whether cutting taxes really is the way to a Conservative election win.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Assistant producer: Iona Brunker
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:00.0 | Hello, this is Sophie Ridge at Westminster with this Sky News Daily. |
| 1:06.0 | It's been quite the day here at the start of quite the week. |
| 1:10.0 | George Galloway, the new MP, the newest MP in Parliament for the first time. We've seen the Rwanda Bill hitting some sticky areas in the House of Lords. Plus, if you've been living under a rock for the last few days, it's the beginning of Budget Week. Jeremy Hunt's second and possibly final spring budget. |
| 1:29.1 | There's definitely an election in the air. It's all eyes on what that is going to be. |
| 1:35.1 | So a budget to save the Conservative Party rather than save the economy is one assessment, |
| 1:40.0 | which is probably why so much of the budget noise is around tax cuts. |
| 1:44.4 | Will it be national insurance? |
| 1:45.9 | Will it be income tax? |
| 1:47.3 | How much will it be? |
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