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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS #103: Budgets and Reddit

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We talk the budget, and what it means for Labour, and the mysterious case of Reddit's disappearing moderators. (Helen Lewis, George Eaton, Stephen Bush, Barbara Speed)

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1:13.9

Reddit, the website that produces most of the news you see in the newspapers.

1:17.7

Now yesterday George Osbourne stood up in the House of Commons facing a wall of noise and delivered the first Tory budget in nearly two decades.

1:28.0

He was he claimed free from the shackles of the Lib Dems.

1:31.0

But what did he offer? I'm joined by our politics editor George Eton and Stad of the Just give me the overnight reaction to this. The headline that's come out, obviously is the living wage.

1:46.0

So there's been some pushback against it in that it's a living wage only on George Osborne's definition.

1:52.0

The planned level of 720 for next year falls

1:55.6

below the current voluntary living wage rate of 785 and that obviously excludes

2:01.1

London and the other key points that labour and campaignism and that

2:03.0

obviously excludes London.

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And the other key points that labour and campaigners are making

2:05.0

is that the current living wage rates take into account

2:08.0

in work benefits.

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