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Hello and welcome to special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Assai of Kate Andrews and Fraser Nelson.

This week Ritchie Sunach announced a 21 billion pound package when it comes to dealing with the cost of living crisis.

This included a win-for tax, a decision that has split the Tory party, with many saying it goes against Tory values.

So has the Chancellor put the UK government and the country into his slippery slope?

Let's go to Fraser to find out his first take.

This was quite a moment for me, quite a depressing moment. I've always regarded Ruchy Sunak

as being a principal guy in a very difficult position that he inherited lots of

spending promises from Boris Johnson and he had spoken about his intention to

get the country in a path to lower taxation. His point was that to do that you need to control the spending,

he didn't want to put it on a deficit. I didn't quite agree with them there, but that was his intention.

I think this week we've seen a different sort of Conservative Party.

From what I gather in the cabinet meeting certainly there is, you know, this isn't something

to do with the regret. They were quite enthusiastic about the windfall tax.

It's being framed in language.

When I heard Richard Nick's speech,

this was language which I just remember

labor coming out with, talking about good companies

and bad companies, excess profits or extraordinary profits that you need to be taxed.

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