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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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As tensions simmer among the Labour benches ahead of their spending review, your co-pilots wade through the noise so you don’t have to.
Allison is pleased to see Reform focusing on families again, by pledging to increase the income tax threshold for married couples.
Meanwhile Liam thinks Starmer is sidelining his Chancellor and making spending pledges Rachel Reeves can’t cover.
Plus comedian and writer Andrew Doyle stows away in the rocket, and tells Allison and Liam why he wrote his latest book The End of Woke, and why he thinks society has swiftly moved away from culture war issues.
Read Liam: 'Labour is pioneering the Blackadder approach to public finances': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/25/labour-pioneering-blackadder-approach-to-public-finances-uk/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Allison: 'Only a very clever man like Lord Sumption could be so stupid when it comes to Lucy Connolly': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/27/clever-lord-sumption-could-be-so-stupid-lucy-connolly/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
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0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
0:08.8 | I'm always up before the birds and the kids. |
0:12.2 | Good thing Costa Express is always up too. |
0:16.3 | Early starts are easier with great coffee. |
0:19.0 | And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company. |
0:23.8 | Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep. |
0:26.5 | Oh, you legend. |
0:28.8 | Now that's a proper coffee. |
0:30.6 | Should kick in Justin Sanfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use. |
0:34.4 | Hmm. |
0:35.6 | Costa Express. |
0:37.1 | Quality coffee every time. |
0:43.4 | Five. |
0:44.7 | It was a woeful performance, |
0:47.2 | and I just thought Kemi should have sacked him immediately |
0:49.9 | because he seemed to be exactly the sort of wet, useless person |
0:53.8 | completely out of touch with popular opinion. |
0:58.2 | Kemi Baitnock has to be. She has to massively distance herself from previous Tory failing. |
1:06.9 | So I spoke to Ray, Lucy's husband, who's a lovely plain speaking Midlander, and Ray said, |
1:12.7 | oh, I read that sumption article. He said, he seems like a stupid git. |
1:18.1 | Kirstana sat there in the Oval Office and said, we have a very proud history of free speech in this country. |
1:22.8 | Yeah, a history, because we don't have it anymore. |
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