JUST RAISE TAX
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
'You walk around the country and you know something's off'
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After a bruising passage of the government's heavily altered welfare reform bill, for the sake of just a few billion pounds, many are left wondering where does the government and the country go now?
In this episode, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by colleagues Tom McTague, Will Dunn and Megan Kenyon to discuss the urgent yet seemingly intractable systemic changes now needed to the State and tax system.
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| 0:35.9 | I can give you an exclusive on the reaction to the piece from Lord Frost now of the |
| 0:45.0 | Telegraph, which our listeners will be very familiar with. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm sure it's the first paper they turn to. |
| 0:50.5 | It's called us deranged leftists. |
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| 1:02.3 | Since 19. |
| 1:02.9 | Since 19. |
| 1:07.5 | Well, the government's reform bill has survived the night and passed in the House of Commons, |
| 1:12.0 | but only after yet more last-minute concessions in a humiliating episode for the Prime Minister |
| 1:16.5 | is the damage permanent. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and this is the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:22.3 | Joining me are my colleagues Tom McTagg, Megan Kenyon and Will Dunn. |
| 1:25.7 | Hello, everyone. |
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