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Planet Normal

Theodora Louloudis

Society & Culture, News, Telegraph, Planet Normal, Current Affairs, News And Current Affairs

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As co-pilot Pearson makes a triumphant return to the rocket, sunkissed and well rested, there is no short of madness orbiting the rocket. But has the UK really gone back to the 70s?

Allison thinks the PM’s Rose Garden speech was ‘tone deaf’ and with things only set to get worse, in the words of the PM, co pilot Halligan delivers some sobering economic predictions for the upcoming budget.

Strapping into the cockpit this week is Director of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young who gives his take on the incoming government and why social media is not to blame for the recent riots in the UK.

And there’s a triumphant return from Velma.

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0:00.0	Five, not only are we in deep do-do-do-co-pilot, things can only get shittier.
0:09.0	Four.
0:10.0	To raise taxes to fix the public finances is economically inept.
0:15.6	They'll be biting their tongues before they criticize the government in future.
0:21.8	That must be part of the government's intention.
0:24.0	It's not performative spending cuts that will fix the public finances, it is growth, growth, growth. One.
0:32.7	We have the star.
0:37.0	Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Allison in Pearson. Hello?
0:43.4	And me, Liam Halligan.
0:45.4	Good to have you back co-pilot Sunk Histon fighting fit.
0:49.0	And it's good you are back because in your absence, the UK itself seems to have gone back to the 70s.
0:55.5	This Labour government is not yet two months old and yet we've already seen inflation-busting
0:59.7	pay deals handed to a raft of trade unions. And over the dog days of summer, incoming ministers have been preparing the ground for a raft
1:06.9	of what I'd say are pretty ideologically driven tax changes, ahead of the autumn budget
1:12.3	statement on October the 30th.
1:15.1	Since you last climbed aboard the rocket Allison, we've seen riots across many UK cities
1:19.8	following the horrific killing of three small girls of a Taylor Swift themed dance class in Southport as I discussed last week with planet normal cosmonaut supreme Baroness Claire Fox.
1:31.0	The Tory's somewhat low-key leadership contest is getting into gear, a contest not
1:35.8	due to produce a result until early November, after that crucial October 30th budget.
1:41.8	Surely that day needs to come forward for the good of
1:44.4	democracy. The UK needs at least some kind of opposition party and fast.
1:48.8	Labor says there's a 22 billion black hole in the public finances which they didn't know about before
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