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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to a special post-budget edition of the New Statesman podcast.

I'm joined by a new Shacanian and Stephen Bush,

you both write for our online Staggars magazine,

and I, excitingly enough, can reveal that I was in the chamber for the budget.

So I've got lots of top quality anecdotes that I can share with you first.

But first one, Anouche, what was for you, we're always talking about in budget terms,

we're talking about the rabbit. What was the rabbit this time?

Okay, well the rabbit is the thing which hasn't been trailed to the press beforehand and is going to be the headline policy of the budget.

And I think in this one I'd say it was the announcement of a

national living wage now I'm putting that in quote marks for listeners who can't see me

because what George Osborne promised was to have a compulsory national living wage for everyone over 25.

The minimum wage as we used to call it.

Yes the minimum wage as it's known in common parlance by 2020 which is quite an impressive political move because it makes it very difficult

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