Is The Chancellor Taking a Chance on Public Sector Pay?

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Reeves hints at above-inflation pay rises for teachers and some NHS workers.

Laura and Paddy talk through today's Reeves' interview, as well as shadow chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, who says Labour's claim of the "worst economic inheritance since World War Two" is "absolute nonsense".

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	So we are finding out more about the new government and more particularly about the new
0:08.7	Chancellor, and I know that we unpleasantly revealed not so long ago that the Treasury had boxed in the Chancellor's
0:13.8	your rhinal.
0:15.2	We do now know in number 11, Rachel Reeves has been changing the decor already.
0:20.4	The picture of Nigel Lawson has come down and a new picture will go up and you know that I've been hugely inspired by many women in politics and in economics
0:31.4	women like Ellen Wilkinson, Jenny Lee, Alice Bacon in politics and in economics,
0:38.8	women like Jen Robinson or Mary Paley Marshall.
0:41.2	So I haven't made a decision but a picture will be going up on that wall.
0:45.0	And it will be a woman? It will be a woman.
0:47.6	Lovely. I love all this. I think it's significant.
0:50.0	It's style and substance. Henry, have you been in number 11?
0:53.0	I have been I've been in that office that red cherries is talking about and I've seen
0:58.0	the portrait of Nigel Lawson because the last time I was there
1:01.0	Ritchie Sunet was Chancellor and he's the one who originally put it up.
1:05.0	So yes, it will be interesting to see who replaces him and I'd like to let the Chancellor know that I'm very much available for an invitation to discuss what she's doing
1:14.4	and to check out the portrait she puts up.
1:18.0	Shameless pitch for another interview with Rachel Reeves only moments after the
1:22.1	background. I'm not passing. Talk about rivalry. with Rachel Reeves only moments after it can be a background shot.
1:23.0	I'm not past it.
1:24.0	Talk about rivalry between political correspondence.
1:27.0	As we will hear on this episode of newscast.
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