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Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast. In this week's issue, the Spectator reveals that the government is planning a significant yearly increase in the NHS's budget.

But isn't this the £350 million a week bus pledge?

And how can the government pay for this?

We'll also talk about the difficulties of modern adoption with Prue Leith.

And finally, we'll hear from Martin Tyler and Mark Palmer

about whether this year's World Cup, held in Russia,

looks set to be the most political

one ever. One of the most infamous images of the EU referendum campaign was that bus, the one

which promised £350 million to the NHS each week if we were to leave. Many thought it fantasy,

but is that promise now coming true?

In this week's cover piece, Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth reveal that Theresa May would like to give the NHS a present on its 70th birthday in July.

The Brexit bust pledged seems to have turned the Conservatives into big spenders.

I'm joined by Fraser, James and Will Tanner, a former advisor to the Prime Minister and the Director of Onward, a new Conservative think tank which launched earlier this week, to discuss

what this Tory promise actually means.

So Fraser, why are the Tory suddenly so willing to give all this money to the NHS?

Well, this is a fascinating kind of about turn in the party political positions.

It used to be the Labour Party that would fight every election on vote Labour, more money for schools, more money for hospitals. This was the great 2001 Labour pledge. And then Tony Blair would say, OK, investment and reform. This was his mantra. We'll give the NHS lots of money as long as it goes through lots of restructuring.

And the Conservatives would say, hang on a minute, you can't judge something by how expensive it is.

Let's keep the government small and taxes low.

Now this has changed because that bus pledge transformed, really, the debate within the Conservative Party.

Vote leave was a strange mixture of left and right. I mean,

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