Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 28/07/2024
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🗓️ 28 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tax rises might be on the horizon, as Labour prepare to reveal a £20bn hole in the finances they blame on a Tory cover up. John Glen says Labour are disingenuous and are already breaking promises. Meanwhile, the environment secretary says water company bosses could face criminal charges in the future, Andy Burnham urges calm over violent Manchester police incident, and Husam Zomlot blames Netanyahu for the delay in achieving a hostage deal.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House shops The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday |
| 0:16.1 | round up. On Monday the new Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a |
| 0:21.1 | 20 billion pound black hole in the country's finances. |
| 0:25.1 | Many believe labour is setting the ground for inevitable tax hikes and spending cuts in the |
| 0:29.6 | autumn, blaming unexpected levels of Tory mismanagement for these decisions. |
| 0:35.6 | On Sky News this morning, Environment Secretary Steve Reed spoke of a Tory cover-up. |
| 0:41.0 | It's reported that Rachel Reeves will make a statement on public finances tomorrow. |
| 0:47.0 | What is it that you know this morning that you didn't know back in June when you drew up your |
| 0:51.6 | program for government. |
| 0:52.8 | You're right, Rachel will be making a statement in the House of Commons tomorrow |
| 0:56.4 | and she will be open and transparent about what we have found as an incoming government, |
| 1:02.0 | an incoming set of ministers since we came into |
| 1:05.8 | our departments. |
| 1:07.2 | The inheritance from the previous government has been catastrophic. |
| 1:11.2 | They were spending money like there's no tomorrow and then they called |
| 1:15.4 | an election they've run away and they're trying to deny it. It's very |
| 1:19.8 | important that we get back to openness in public life so we're not going to shy away from what's going wrong and we are |
| 1:26.0 | determined to take the decisions that will start to rebuild Britain and give |
| 1:30.3 | people better opportunities in the future. |
| 1:32.6 | If there's openness in public life, |
| 1:35.8 | is there an element of, let's call it, |
| 1:38.1 | Kabuki theatre here? |
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