Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times I'm Matt Chorley.

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Right, plugs over down to business.

This week I'm delighted be joined by Sam Coates, the Times Deputy Political

who wonders if Britain really should be turning a blind eye to the US separating children from their parents.

Times economist Rachel Sylvester is on jugs and William Haig's call for cannabis to be legalized.

But first, Paul Johnson, Times Regular and Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies on Theresa

May shaking the magic money tree.

So Theresa May wants to give the NHS more than 20 billion pounds extra in the next five years. She says in part from leaving

the EU, but if you look at the cost of paying the exit bill and promises for

things like funding farmers, there's literally, arithmetically, no money over that period and we know that finances

will be worse as a result of the EU referendum. That's something the government has accepted.

In short, there is no Brexit dividend.

Talk about reigning on the Prime Minister's parade, Paul.

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