Our billionaire PM and his £1 million tax bill
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer spent the morning in Stoke-on-Trent. Not WOKE-on-Trent, as one hilarious Tory Red-wall-er reminded him.
But attempts to fire up the culture war are something Rishi Sunak wants no part in.
And recent polling suggests it's the right call. Today we look at the state of play of the two main political parties and what the numbers are currently telling us -with James Kanagasoorium of Focaldata.
And we ask whether we mind have a billionaire prime minister who pays a million pound tax bill. Lewis is on the streets of Paris where they are rioting. And not just because of something he said.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We're going to play you a clip in just a second of Rishi Sunak talking about his taxes. |
| 0:18.1 | Well, he's asked about his taxes, but just listen to how little time |
| 0:22.6 | he spends on that before he goes much wider about what he's doing to help the British economy. |
| 0:29.6 | Well, I said I would publish my tax returns. I was pleased to be able to do that yesterday |
| 0:33.5 | in the interest of transparency. And the most important thing is, what am I doing to help people of this country with the cost of living? |
| 0:39.3 | That's their number one priority. |
| 0:40.3 | That's why at the beginning of the year, I set out five priorities. |
| 0:42.3 | The first of those was to harm inflation, and the budget recently extended our support with people's energy bills. |
| 0:48.3 | Just to remind everyone, you know, I took a decision to tax the windfall profits of big energy companies. 75% tax rate. |
| 0:54.8 | So today on the newsagents, we're going to be talking a bit about Rishi's tax |
| 0:58.1 | and whether we mind having an exceptionally rich prime minister in this country, |
| 1:03.1 | but also looking more broadly at the state of play and polling |
| 1:07.1 | between the two main parties and their two leaders. |
| 1:10.8 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:16.1 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:18.0 | It's John. |
| 1:18.9 | It's Emily. |
| 1:19.5 | And Lewis is in Paris. |
| 1:21.2 | Yes, Lewis is talking complete garbage. |
| 1:23.0 | More of that later. |
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