So welcome to our political currency budget hot take and whether you are watching this live

now on YouTube or catching up this evening on our normal political currency feeds.

You're really, really kind of welcome. Great to be here with you. We'll be doing our normal political currency feeds. You're really, really kind of welcome.

Great to be here with you.

We'll be doing our normal podcast on Thursday.

So we'll have a time, as everybody will,

to have absorbed and reflected upon what was in the budget,

all of the detail.

But this is our first budget hot tape.

Yeah. Actually, it takes me back, doesn't it, to kind of, when you're

in opposition and you have to kind of digest the budget really quickly and flick through the red

book, which is the budget document the Treasury produces, look at the OBR forecast and document

these days, although we all had a couple of hours jump on that

because they inadvertently put it up online, which will be one of the big stories of Budget Day.

Maybe we'll just start, shall we, with our overall impressions, your impression, my impression,

of the budget.

And then we're going to get into some of the specifics and the things that jumped out

at us.

I mean, maybe I'll go first.

I mean, you know, I thought very much this was a budget for Labour MPs,

written by the parliamentary Labour Party,

rather than a budget aimed at even Labour voters,

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