Is Rishi ditching a tax that would make him and his mates richer?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak and his lectern are promising 'long term decisions for a brighter future'. But just whose future is getting brighter?
Plans for HS2 are in chaos after rumours the PM might be about to ditch the wildly over-budget rail project. He's called environmental policies heavy handed - and ditched some of those targets. And now his ministers are starting to suggest that inheritance tax could be 'deeply punitive'. Will that be axed too?
And we discuss the outlier poll for ABC news which gives Trump a 10 point lead over Biden in a presidential election.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:09.0 | What I don't want to do is make yet more short-term the decisions, easy ways out, that |
| 0:14.6 | ultimately not be straight with a country about what those mean for them, the cost that those |
| 0:18.5 | are imposing on them. |
| 0:19.9 | I don't believe that's the right thing to do. |
| 0:21.7 | I want to make the right decisions for the long term of our children, of our country, |
| 0:26.2 | and that won't be easy. |
| 0:27.7 | Oh, what a relief. |
| 0:29.0 | Only thinking about the next 10 years. |
| 0:31.4 | That's marvellous. |
| 0:32.3 | No eye at all on the general election, probably next year. |
| 0:36.1 | No focus group testing about whether these policies |
| 0:39.1 | will be popular with older voters like keeping the triple lock, like maybe getting rid of |
| 0:44.5 | inheritance tax. It's all about the long term. Yeah, it's all about thinking about our children |
| 0:49.5 | and our grandchildren who definitely won't want a connected railway system when they grow up, |
| 0:55.3 | and definitely, definitely won't want a greener country. |
| 0:59.2 | Few. Thank God we're thinking about the long term. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:07.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:09.7 | It's John. |
| 1:10.5 | It's Emily. |
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