Post-Budget storm: A media frenzy or fatal for Starmer and Reeves?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Since the Budget the main question in the media and from some of the government’s political opponents has been did Rachel Reeves deliberately mislead? But is the Chancellor’s integrity the right target for her many opponents? Is the substance of the Budget getting less attention than it deserves from supporters and opponents? Plus, is this the end of juries and Your Party?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One.
0:14.5	We are gathered together and we are Quarate today.
0:17.4	I'm Miranda Green. I'm here with Tim Montgomery and Steve Richards.
0:20.2	We have so much to talk about this week. We're not quite correct. I think, well, I'm Miranda Green. I'm here with Tim Montgomery and Steve Richards. We have so much to talk
0:21.5	about this week. We're not quite correct. I think, well, I think three out of four aim bad to
0:26.5	misquote the song. Okay. But, you know, Ian, as we found last week, prefers drinking with his
0:33.8	Swedish chums than being with us. So he's actually flying back on a plane from Sweden at this very moment
0:39.3	which is why he can't join us.
0:40.7	Has he been in Sweden all that time with his clinking glass and velvet jacket?
0:45.0	Wouldn't you, Steve?
0:46.5	Don't forget the big cigar.
0:49.5	And a big cigar, yeah.
0:51.2	Given the opportunity to be here with us and our cup of tea
0:55.0	or to be handed drinks by Swedish flunkies, I think he's opted for the latter. What do you think it is vodka? What drinks do you think he'll be? He's great. I think he's a wine officiard. He's a wine. He's a wine. He's a wine. He'll probably go for that. But yeah, I'd go for something stronger and exotic if I was in Sweden.
1:11.3	Anyway, we must quiz him on what he's been drinking when he gets back. So I think he'll probably go for that. But yeah, I'd go for something stronger and exotic if I was in Sweden.
1:11.3	Anyway, we must quiz him on what he's been drinking when he was back. Would you prefer us to that, Miranda, if you had the option? Oh, God, Tim, that's so disappointing. I thought for a minute there you were going to ask me, would I prefer a glass of wine to my cup of sea to which the answer would be. Yes, but make it a bloody Mary. Oh, right, okay.
1:29.4	Well, I suppose we'd
1:30.1	get to the job in hand hadn't we since we are here to talk about the most extraordinary week
1:36.2	another completely insane week at westminster a lot of which can seem i would say like
1:43.6	bubbleitis but there's some very serious stuff going on we obviously a lot of which can seem, I would say, like bubblitis,
1:45.2	but there's some very serious stuff going on.
1:48.0	We obviously, for the last few weeks, have been concentrating on Rachel Reeves' second budget,
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