Is Rachel Reeves spending too little or too much?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Prime Minister, Political Commentary, Number 10, News, Rishi Sunak, Political, Not Another One, Politics, General Election

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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After a bumpy first year can the comprehensive spending review give the government a clearer sense of direction? There’s the winter fuel payment u-turn, more cash for free school meals, defence, NHS and a pledge to increase capital spending. But some departments face real terms cuts and the economy remains fragile. How is Rachel Reeves going to pay for her plans and will she have to find more money by the autumn? Plus, what’s been happening behind the scenes in Reform and do Sarah Vine’s reflections on the Cameron era have wider lessons?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin, Miranda Green and me, Steve Richards.
0:18.7	And as ever, we have got a lot to discuss in our time together.
0:22.6	Our main focus, inevitably, will be Rachel Reeves and the public spending announcements,
0:30.6	and with many, many implications and consequences, which we'll explore.
0:35.6	But before that, we've got two or all three other things to discuss.
0:39.5	First of all, Miranda, we are the Frankie Goes to Hollywood of podcasting because like them,
0:47.1	with a single they put out, which got to number one, we kind of are number one, really,
0:52.7	sort of, in the charts.
0:54.1	In our minds. In our minds. But, sort of, in the charts.
0:55.2	In our minds.
0:55.9	In our minds.
1:00.3	But also, we almost got banned last week.
1:01.8	And it's all your fault, explain.
1:02.8	It's all Miranda's fault.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:07.1	Ian, would you care to jump in and give me a kicking as well?
1:29.2	No, Miranda came up with a very good idea, which was to review a list. Careful, careful. A list created by Sue Gray a year ago, outlining the problems that an incoming Labour government would face. And it had a bad word in it. The story did it at the time. The Americans called cuss words, don't they? It had cuss word. Yeah, which meant that we were then labelled explicit. Explicit content.
1:30.1	I know, which we were joking on the way and makes us the ladies chatelie's lover.
1:35.3	Yeah.
1:35.8	Show us how delusional we are.
1:37.9	We've quoted Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
1:40.3	D.H. Lawrence.
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