Ed Conway and Beth Rigby: Was that a budget for a May election?
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by data and economics editor Ed Conway to break down the changes in tax and childcare, and if the chancellor's plan will help the economy.
Plus, hear from political editor Beth Rigby about whether the budget can save the Tories from election defeat.
Jeremy Hunt has delivered his last spring budget before a general election, hoping to revive the UK economy and his party's hopes of re-election.
Producers: Soila Apparicio and Sydney Pead
Assistant producer: Iona Brunker
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:04.1 | Hi, I'm Neil Patterson. |
| 1:05.8 | Welcome back to the Sky News Daily, |
| 1:09.8 | where of course we will be focusing on Jeremy Hunt and his budget. |
| 1:14.2 | Indeed, before, Jeremy Hunt even stood up at the dispatch box today in the House of Commons. |
| 1:18.2 | He said this, great budgets change history. |
| 1:22.2 | So did the Chancellor, in fact, turn the world on its axis, |
| 1:26.1 | or is this another budget that we're all probably going to end up forgetting? |
| 1:32.2 | In a little while, we'll bring in our political editor, Beth Rigby, but joining me in the studio, you guessed it. Our economics and data editor, Ed Conway, Riley smiling away, you're having fun. Well, it's because I know the answer. |
| 1:37.3 | I mean, we're going to forget about this one. Yeah? We're going to forget about it. |
| 1:41.7 | I've reported on probably more budgets than I care to remember. I can't remember many of them. I've seen smaller budgets, but I've definitely seen a lot bigger ones. This was pretty small in the grand scheme of things. |
| 1:53.3 | Pretty small in the grand scheme of things, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't anything in it that isn't worthy of discussion. And we should probably start with the one thing that will be on the front pages. |
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