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The Owen Jones Podcast

Economist Takes Apart Autumn Statement - With James Meadway

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

News, Government, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

If you want to know exactly what the Autumn Statement means - and tear apart Jeremy Hunt's spin - the brilliant economist James Meadway (host of Macrodose) tears it apart.

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0:20.2

Hello, welcome. Today is the autumn statement.

0:22.5

The Conservative Government have set out their plans,

0:25.1

their spending plans, as it were.

0:27.7

In the run-up to a general election,

0:29.5

almost certainly the last of these autumn statements,

0:32.0

unless they run down the clock till January 2025.

0:34.7

That's the latest, they can be an election.

0:36.4

People now speculate on the back of this

0:38.2

that an election could come in the spring.

0:40.6

Well, look, we want to tear this apart, don't we?

0:43.1

So who better to tear this apart with than James?

0:45.2

Medway, economic, superbrain.

0:47.7

Also, I hope you have a brilliant podcast,

0:49.5

MacroDose, which has just been relaunched.

0:51.5

We'll do a video at the end to show you what that's all about,

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