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🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Pretty gloomy outside right now. |
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0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to the Sophie Bridge on Sunday podcast. It's Budget Day tomorrow and we had a special |
0:36.6 | budget show to look ahead to it. |
0:38.6 | I sat down with Chancellor Philip Hammond to talk about austerity, Brexit and his shopping habits |
0:43.5 | also came up. And the shadow chancellor John McDonald gave his reaction to that interview and |
0:48.4 | needless to say, he wasn't impressed. The B-word is back, but this time, fortunately, it's not Brexit but the budget. |
1:04.1 | Tomorrow, the Chancellor will show off its red box and reveal how he plans to deliver on the Prime Minister's promise to end austerity. |
1:10.4 | But making the sums add up is no easy task. |
1:12.9 | He has no parliamentary majority to raise taxes |
1:15.2 | and he's bound by self-imposed restrictions on borrowing. |
1:19.3 | Throw in opposition parties who are already lining up to call foul |
1:22.4 | if he doesn't give them what they want. |
1:24.3 | And conservative colleagues who don't trust him because of Brexit, |
1:27.3 | it's fair to say the pressure is really on. |
1:30.1 | When I sat down with Philip Hammond, I started by asking if austerity is really coming to an end, |
1:34.5 | and if so, what that actually means. |
1:36.6 | The Prime Minister has said that once we get the deal done with the European Union |
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