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Hello and welcome to Conquered House Shops, the spectators' daily politics podcast. I'm

Isabelle Hardman and this is The Sunday Roundup. The chancellor was in the TV studios

this morning ahead of the spring statement that he will deliver on Wednesday. Economic

issues like much else have been cast into the shadows over recent weeks as the spotlight

has inevitably focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even today was no exception. In

his interview with Sophie Rayworth, Rishi Sunak was first asked to address a stir caused

by the Prime Minister's remarks at the Conservative Spring Conference yesterday in Blackpool.

The Ukrainians fighting the Russians is like the British voting for Brexit. Would you have

made that comparison? Well, I don't think the Prime Minister was making a direct comparison

between these two things. Clearly they're not directly analogous and that's not what

he was saying. He quite clearly did make a comparison. They were in the very same sentence,

Britain's light Ukrainians have the instinct to choose freedom. I've got the entire

quote here that he was comparing them to. I'm just asking, would you make that comparison?

He was making some general observations about people's desire for freedom. Clearly those

two situations are not directly analogous. The Prime Minister doesn't think that because

they're clearly not. Would you have used those words? Would you have

compared them so directly together? As I said at your point, he was not directly comparing

those two things. He was talking about freedom in general. Those two situations are not

directly comparable. No one thinks that they are. The Prime Minister doesn't think that

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