How's the business going?

We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.

Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it

and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at business.gov.

UK slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. Today I am asking everyone to make a contribution.

Our current level of borrowing and debt interest payments is deeply unsustainable.

It wasn't a pro-growth budget at all.

Reeves is in grave danger of sparking a wage price spiral.

I'm proud to be Britain's first female Chancellor of the Exchequer.

She's wrong about a lot of things.

If that's mansplaining, then we have no democracy.

Let me explain to the Chancellor, woman to woman.

People out there aren't complaining because she's female.

They're complaining because she is utterly incompetent.

Hello, and welcome to the Spike Podcast.

Thrilled as ever to be joined by Spike's editor, Tom Slater. Hello. And no one we would rather be joined by it on Budget Week. It's the economist and journalist Liam Halligan. Liam, welcome. Good to be with you guys. People will know Liam as the Telegraph columnist, co-host of the Planet Normal podcast, and the man behind the essential when the facts change, substack,

which you're now launching a show on Liam.

Do you want to tell us a bit about that?

Yeah, just overnight, Fraser and Tom,

good to be with you.

I've put together my first show.

I've amassed a few substack subscribers over recent months

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