HOT TAKE: The pre-election Autumn Statement?
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
George and Ed react to Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement. Is he really the tax cutting Chancellor he's claiming to be, and are we on course for an early election? And we’ll be back again tomorrow with more detail on the Chancellor’s plans as the picture becomes clearer.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.0 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion |
| 0:15.8 | of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:20.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.8 | This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 0:48.2 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 0:50.6 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:00.4 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:05.8 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.8 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. So it's just gone 2.30. |
| 1:14.3 | Jeremy Hunt has delivered his autumn statement. |
| 1:17.6 | Rachel Reeves for Labour has responded and there was a rabbit out of the hat at the end, |
| 1:23.7 | quite heavily trailed in the newspapers, |
| 1:25.6 | but more than expected, a two-pie cut in employees |
| 1:29.3 | national insurance starting in January. |
| 1:32.4 | Jeremy Hunt is saying he wants us to see him as a tax cutter. |
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