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It's Autumn Statement Horific today as we reflect on Philip Hammond's first big

setpiece first big financial setpiece you were mocked for calling it that

weren't you Stephen?

First big fiscal event yes. But in the same space of the podcast we can say that I

think you were right to say that because it is it was an interesting test of where the government is.

We're also joined by a stag as editor Julia Rampant who is I would say the member of the team

with the most understanding of numbers having come to us from a money section so if Stephen or I say

anything that is enumerate please feel free to chip in.

Stephen first give me the give me the five top fun facts about the autumn statement for those of us who weren't paying as much

attention as we could have been perhaps. I suppose so the interesting things were one of the

things which didn't happen there was no extra funding for variously health, further education, or social care, all of which have to varying degrees of public prominence been crying out for more money. None of them got it. The second was the

loosening of the deficit target. The third was the interesting thing that

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