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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabelle Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt joined Laura Cunesburg this morning ahead of the autumn statement,

which will be held on Thursday.

The prospect of a recession and a general need for stability

have meant that this fiscal event is unlikely to be anything like the last one.

With no rabbits available to be pulled out of the hat,

Hunt laid the groundwork for some unpopular choices to come.

You've been explicit that we face difficult decisions.

That's often code for the fact that everyone's going to have to suffer somehow.

Is everybody going to pay more tax?

We are going to see everyone paying more tax.

We're going to see spending cuts.

But I think it's very important to say that we are a resilient country.

I think that, as Simon Sharma would say,

we've faced bigger challenges in our history in the past.

And we're also a compassionate country.

So we will introduce a plan that will see us through the very choppy waters

that we're in economically.

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