Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners
Pod Save the UK
Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Did the Chancellor’s much anticipated pre-election budget fall flat? Nish and Coco pick over the details and wonder why our public services are being sacrificed for the sake of tax cuts. There’s reaction from Westminster from political journalist Kiran Stacey, who says that there are signs of the budget unravelling already. Rachelle Earwaker from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it does nothing for the poorest in society, calling it a budget for “big earners and big owners”.
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Kiran Stacey, political correspondent at The Guardian
Rachelle Earwaker, senior economist at The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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| 0:00.0 | Jeremy Hunt, Jeremy Hunt. |
| 0:02.0 | Jeremy Hunt. |
| 0:03.0 | Okay, yeah, let's make sure we get that right. |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah? |
| 0:06.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Podsoe for UK. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Nishkumar. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Coco Khan. |
| 0:10.0 | And there is a tired looking man on the television |
| 0:12.0 | carrying a battered red briefcase and stood awkwardly in the street presenting it to photographers. |
| 0:17.0 | That can only mean one thing. |
| 0:21.0 | Yes, it's the spring budget, but Jeremy Hunt's budget isn't designed to save the UK, |
| 0:26.2 | it's designed to save the Tories, but will it work? |
| 0:29.8 | We'll take a look at the politics at play and also ask whether it'll do anything |
| 0:33.9 | for those who actually need the most. |
| 0:35.8 | Helping us will be Kiran Stacy political correspondent for The Guardian and Rachel |
| 0:40.0 | Erica senior economist at the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Roundtree Foundation. |
| 0:44.6 | Hi, Koko. Hi Nish. We're back in the studio, we're back together. |
| 0:49.3 | Oh my God, what a reunion. I've missed you. The stars have aligned and what is going to come out of that union is? |
| 0:56.4 | What is it bands? Hopefully a podcast. Fingers crossed a podcast. |
| 1:00.5 | It has to be a podcast by contractual obligation. |
| 1:02.8 | Yes, that is true. |
| 1:03.8 | That is true. |
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