Hunt for Red November
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Chancellor Hunt lays out tax rises and spending cuts to try to fill the budget black hole, from freezing income tax thresholds to cutting back help with energy bills. In his first Autumn Statement, the Chancellor acknowledged the UK was in a recession, and announced support for the most vulnerable, including rises in line with inflation of the state pension, benefits, and tax credits. Alongside other measures such as an expanded windfall tax on energy company profits, what does the Autumn Statement mean for Scotland, will it be effective at balancing the books while supporting those in need, or is it, as Labour have said, a "pickpocketing" of the public?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to Publical BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.1 | It is nine minutes past two. On Thursday |
| 0:22.7 | the 17th of November, |
| 0:24.6 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in |
| 0:26.6 | Glasgow, and today I'm joined by. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Rod Sheep Sundy, a journalist based in |
| 0:30.6 | Westminster. And I'm Phil Sim, a journalist |
| 0:32.8 | based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:34.5 | Rajdeep and Phil. I'm going to start with a joke. |
| 0:37.5 | Always A bold move. Very inviting and Phil. I'm going to start with a joke. Always. |
| 0:38.5 | Always a bold move. |
| 0:40.0 | We remind I've been up since |
| 0:41.1 | ridiculous a clock this morning. |
| 0:42.7 | When is a budget, not a budget. |
| 0:46.3 | When it's an autumn statement. |
| 0:49.0 | Yes, you got in one. |
| 0:51.3 | So this kind of humour you can expect |
| 0:52.8 | for the next half an hour. |
| 0:54.6 | I would like the joke to be explained to me. That makes it funny. It's just a way of saying. |
| 1:00.8 | Here's your explanation. This is budget day, but it's not budget day because it's autumn statement day. |
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