Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics podcast. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Good evening and if you're joining us live, hopefully you've had a marvellous mothering Sunday.

Confident that both Simon and I have gone well.

If you're obviously listening as a podcast or catching up,

then hopefully your Mothering Sunday went well.

I'm pretty certain ours, do they, Simon?

Well, it went fantastically, although, to be fair,

the subject of the Mothering Sunday for for for well for myself and

and my sister was was unfortunately the one doing the cooking which kind of felt a bit odd but

it was a delicious meal and thank you very much for the invite that was great it's a lovely

no absolutely splendid and we are glancing back to Chancellor very much for the invite. That was great. It's a lovely. Absolutely splendid.

And we are glancing back to Chancellor Jeremy Rude Boy Hunt and his budget on Wednesday,

which was eagerly anticipated by few and enormously well received by view.

I guess we're going to go dive into the detail and some of the key themes coming out of it.

And think about, you know, it would suggest that Jeremy's got one eye on later in the year, perhaps, Simon?

Yeah, I mean, it's a thing that we'll, I think we'll bounce backwards and forwards later on.

But yeah, it doesn't kind of, it wasn't a slam dunk of a budget in the sense of quite often with budgets.

It's, oh, there's lots of exciting things that you can get really energized about.

And then over the coming days, as people pour over the details, they tend to pick them apart and find out,

hang on a minute, this thing that's looked like a great thing actually turned out not to be a great thing.

But I don't think we kind of even got that on this occasion.

And if you think that if you're of the mind that the election is likely to be in October or November

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