Is worrying about public service cuts “left wing"?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A quick trip to Downing Street for The News Agents today and an interview with the Chancellor fresh from his Autumn Statement.
How does he explain those real term cuts to public spending? What does he make of todays immigration figures? And does he miss Suella?
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Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon & James Cropper
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | Yesterday we saw Jeremy Hunt coming out of this famous door to go to the House of Commons to deliver his autumn statement. |
| 0:19.4 | Today we're about to go in |
| 0:21.0 | to ask him all about it. We're going to talk about tax cuts, public spending cuts, immigration |
| 0:26.8 | numbers and how he feels about Suella leaving the government. Welcome to the newsagents from |
| 0:32.6 | Downing Street. The Newsagents. Chancellor, welcome back to the newsagents |
| 0:37.7 | Chancellor, welcome back to the newsagents |
| 0:41.3 | It's lovely to be here in Downing Street, number 11 Downing Street. |
| 0:44.4 | We've got two papers. |
| 0:45.8 | You might not have seen them yet today. |
| 0:47.4 | What are the chance of that? |
| 0:48.3 | The Times says Hunt eases the tax burden |
| 0:51.2 | and the financial time says tax burden surges despite hunt cuts. Who's right? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, in their own way, they're both right because the tax burden has gone up because I think |
| 1:05.7 | we did the right thing. We supported families in the pandemic. The furlough scheme saved around 9 million jobs. And we also |
| 1:14.3 | supported people in the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine. And those are the |
| 1:19.9 | right things to do. But you have to pay down that debt. And so I took some pretty difficult |
| 1:23.5 | decisions last year, including on things like the tax thresholds. |
| 1:28.6 | But partly as a result of those difficult decisions, and partly for, because the economy's |
| 1:35.8 | been more resilient than nearly everyone expected, we ended up with more tax revenues. |
| 1:44.0 | And because of that, I I decided because I'd always |
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