Halloween budget: trick or treat? w/ Torsten Bell MP, Grace Blakeley & Katie Schmuecker
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Pod Save the UK
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Double, Double, toil and trouble…the Government’s first budget has been unveiled on the eve of Halloween, and Nish and Coco are peering into chancellor Rachel Reeve’s cauldron. It’s a spooky episode, so buckle up, we find out if the Halloween budget is the horror show it’s been predicted to be.
A seance with economic and political journalist Grace Blakeley helps us break down the raft of tax rises, loosened borrowing restrictions, and investment in public services.
But what about the skeletons in the closet? Principal policy advisor at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Katie Schmuecker drops in to chat about reforms to benefits for sick and disabled people, as well as private renters on low incomes.
And finally Torsten Bell, Labour MP and former head of the Resolution Foundation, reveals if he’s going to sleep easy or if he’s worried about any market monsters emerging overnight…
Guests:
Grace Blakeley
Katie Schmuecker
Torsten Bell MP
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Pod Save the UK I'm Coco card and I'm Nishkuma |
| 0:07.0 | today Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled her much anticipated Halloween budget |
| 0:12.0 | and we'll be finding out if it's the horror show it's |
| 0:13.8 | predicted to be. |
| 0:14.4 | That's right, and as well as being a big deal for the future of the |
| 0:17.3 | country, it's a big moment in history as its labor's first budget in |
| 0:20.9 | 14 years and the first delivered by a female Chancellor. |
| 0:24.4 | To find out what it means for the UK, |
| 0:25.8 | we'll be joined by the Economic and Political Commentator Grace Blakely |
| 0:28.6 | and the Joseph Roundtree Foundation's Katie Schmucker. |
| 0:30.8 | And later, are we putting the hard questions to Labor |
| 0:33.4 | MP Torsham Bell? So Coco it's midday on Wednesday the 30th the day |
| 0:40.1 | before Halloween we've sent our producers down to pound land, which for international |
| 0:43.6 | audiences, get your mind out of the gutter, especially American audiences, I know how that sounds. |
| 0:48.6 | It's a discount shop and we've got at least £3.50 of high quality Halloween tat. Yeah I'm loving it. |
| 0:54.0 | Someone carved us an actual pumpkin. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, our producer May did this. We should name... |
| 0:59.1 | It was actually producer May's housemate. Oh really? |
| 1:01.8 | Come on we've got to give credit where credit is due. Wow. Shout out to May's housemate. Oh really? Come on we've got to give credit where credit is due. |
| 1:03.5 | Wow! Shout out to May's housemate! May really presented that on our what's up group. That's |
| 1:08.8 | all I'm saying. Wow. But the pumpkin's got a scary face, which is fantastic. And then on the back it says |
| 1:15.2 | P-S-U-K. And I was thinking to myself, if I was to take this pumpkin home and someone |
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