Hunt's Tax-and-Axe Plan
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has set out his planned tax rises and spending cuts in the Autumn Statement. Matt Chorley unpacks the key announcements and discusses the winners and losers with Times Radio's Lucy Fisher and Dominic O'Connell.
Also on the podcast, a special edition of Think Tank Thursday with policy experts Polly Mackenzie and Rachel Wolf explaining what happens when budgets go bad.
Plus columnists India Knight and James Marriott talk about Matt going running with Jeremy Hunt and why James is a solitary genius.
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| 0:58.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chawley on Autumn's statement day. |
| 1:03.0 | Jeremy Hunt finally laying out his plans, tax rises, spending cuts coming down the tracks. |
| 1:09.3 | He's had what five weeks in the job, making a positive venture compared to his predecessor |
| 1:14.0 | quasi-quarting. The big political question over the next few weeks, months and a couple of years |
| 1:21.0 | will be, who gets the blame for all of this? Jeremy Hunt arguing that this is a recession made |
| 1:26.7 | in Russia, born out of the invasion of Ukraine, and he had a British plan to clear it up. |
| 1:31.6 | While the Labour Party Rachel Weaves the Shadow Chancellor arguing that these problems predate |
| 1:37.4 | the Ukrainian war, they predate the pandemic. This is what happens after 12 years of the |
| 1:42.6 | Conservatives in government. I'm sure we'll discuss that much more in the coming days and weeks. |
| 1:47.7 | Coming up on today's episode of the podcast, about the columnists, Night at the Mountain, |
| 1:50.8 | Indian Art and James Mountain, what they really think of Jeremy Hunt. We've also got a special |
| 1:55.6 | think tank Thursdays, a polymechenzie from a Lib Dem policy chief in the coalition. Rachel Wolf, |
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