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Newscast

Everything you need to know about the Budget… and probably more

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered the last Budget before the general election.

Adam and Chris are joined by Dharshini David and Faisal Islam who discuss Hunt’s measures, Labour’s response, and what they mean for you. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Daffyd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

I thought the only person droning on on Budget Day is the Chancellor,

0:09.1

but actually there was an actual drone's story.

0:12.2

Pfizer explained what, actually you know what, why don't we listen to Jeremy Hunt,

0:15.6

droning on about drones and then we can discuss what he might be meaning.

0:19.6

So we will spend 230 million pounds rolling out time and money saving technology, which speeds

0:26.6

up police response times by allowing people to report crimes by video call and where appropriate use drones as first responders.

0:35.0

What does that mean? I think what underlies that really does matter

0:40.0

because he was under pressure in particular from the comments of the head of the official

0:45.9

forecast of the OBR saying that they hadn't even, it wasn't even a work of fiction because

0:51.0

they hadn't written down their plans for spending after the election.

0:54.9

And what that was was the government's or the chancellor's response to them having no spending

1:01.3

review.

1:02.3

One of the announcements buried in the red book

1:05.8

was there's no spending review ahead of the election.

1:09.2

So we'll be flying a moment

1:10.8

where they set out the departmental budgets for four or five years.

1:13.6

Where they just basically decide how they carve up a cake that's quite tight, growing a tiny

1:19.2

bit, but against the pressures that are out there tight stuff especially when you're already

1:24.6

allocating spending to kind of health and aid and defence.

1:30.2

So what he was trying to do there was say, listen, I can defend the idea of these sort of real cuts in some areas and a tight spending in general.

1:41.5

I can defend it because we're going to be massively productive using

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