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The centre-right parties really now are abandoning this ever-spinning carousel of promising the world to everyone.

Just look at the Labour to everyone. Four.

Just look at the Labour Benches.

I mean, hardly anybody worked in business.

Hardly anybody has done a serious job.

According to family legend, I danced before I could speak.

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They had things like listening circles, which was groups of civil servants coming together on paid time to sit around talking about how they felt about social and political issues.

Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with me, Liam Halligan and ordinarily Alison Pearson.

But the co-pilots are way this week, so I'm delighted to welcome back to the podcast Nick Timothy,

former Downing Street Chief of Staff and Tory MP for West Suffolk. Nick, great to have you with us. Hello, it's good to be back. There's plenty for us to get our collective teeth into Nick, not least the

economy, which has moved centre stage ahead of Rachel Reeves' second budget statement

scheduled for Wednesday the 26th of November. Last October, the Chancellor raised taxes by

£40 billion. the most fiscally

punitive budget statement for more than three decades. Reeves said repeatedly that was a one-off,

yet this week she gave an impromptu speech, all but confirming taxes are about to significantly

rise again. Meanwhile, reforms Nigel Farage has been

reigning in his tax-cutting promises, and your leader, Nick, Kimmy Baitnock, has still

been trying to claim the mantle not of big spending promises, but fiscal responsibility.

With bond markets jittery, the UK borrowing costs are still the highest in the G7, and some politicians are at least starting to stand up for fiscal reality.

We also need to talk about the Home Office, Nick, a department you know well, having served there as a special advisor under Theresa May before you entered Downing Street.

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