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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman

and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth. Well, it's the day after the budget and, as is

always the case, the details are coming out and some of the complaints are coming out as well. Katie, how has it landed

in the Conservative Party? I think it's been a mixed reaction, both in terms of the Conservative Party

and also the reception in the media, which is ultimately there isn't any outcry, there's not

any outrage really or mass rouse breaking

out about this budget.

There is a discomfort amongst Tory MPs about the fact that despite the Chancellor constantly

saying he loves low tax, the tax burden is going up to its highest point since the 1950s.

And how do you reconcile that?

I think as James has written in this week's magazine,

the fact that there is a tax cut,

or more than one,

but there is a substantial tax cut in terms of the taper rate on universal credit

has offered a hint of the direction.

And it was interesting when Rishi Sunirk

addressed Tory MPs at the 1922 committee last night.

He went further than he did in his comments in the chamber,

saying that ultimately the budget sets out that it's a clear and unambiguous intent from the

government now to begin the process of reducing taxes, or at least that's the intent of Risi

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