Is Labour being ‘fundamentally dishonest’?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Natasha Feroze speaks to Katy Balls and the FT’s Stephen Bush.
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| 0:15.5 | Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Natasha Froze and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Stephen Bush is with us today. |
| 0:28.0 | Special guest. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello. |
| 0:30.0 | Stephen, Jeremy Hunt last night said that Labour's economic plan is fundamentally dishonest. |
| 0:37.0 | Is that true? |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, I mean, of course. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, we'll go home, it's a very short shot today. |
| 0:44.0 | The thing which is fascinating about both parties and indeed the thing which is bold about it as a strategy from Jeremy Hunt's perspective is |
| 0:54.6 | that it's dishonest and he knows that better than most because the spending plans |
| 0:59.3 | they're pledging to follow are his which again if you I mean essentially the way then Jeremy Hunt |
| 1:04.7 | makes his numbers add up are you have to believe two things one that in the |
| 1:10.1 | April for April may or February whenever the whenever the budget ends up being. |
| 1:14.5 | But in the budget next year, they will for the first time in more than a decade end the |
| 1:20.9 | fuel duty freeze. |
| 1:22.0 | Now look, if any listeners to your podcast believe that the fuel duty freeze is going to end a couple of months before the next election. |
| 1:31.0 | I am willing to personally bet any reader a bottle of good |
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