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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Welcome to the New Statesman Podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week I talk

to Anush Shekaly and Stephen Bush about the aftermath of the autumn statement and

then Anouche joins us again with Barbara Speed to talk about the Tampontax.

Plus for perhaps one week only, Stephen's joke of the week.

Then Jason Cowley talks to John Gray about our cover story on ISIS and the state. Well, we're joining you the day after the autumn statement in which George Oswell made a series of announcements,

pulled some rabbits out of a hat and various other political

cliches. I'm joined by Stephen Bush, our Stagger's editor and Anusha Cayenne, our Deputy Web editor.

So first, for anybody who's been under a rock, Stephen, What were the rabbits? So the kind of big

big rabbits were the U-turn on tax credits, well it's a partial U-turn in and he's

basically said that there will be no cuts to tax

credits because it doesn't matter because tax credits will vanish when universal credit is

fully implemented.

It's quite a good illustration that isn't it of the fact that a

U-turn is less embarrassing than continuing to stick to something just

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