Rachel’s bottomless bucket of woe
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
It’s a new month with the same old madness on Planet earth, with rises in capital gains tax, council tax, energy fees and transport costs, April Fool’s is feeling all too close to home…
Is there another ‘bucket of woe’ for Chancellor Rachel Reeves and will there be more tax rises on the horizon to plug the public finances?
This week’s Planet Normal stowaway is Conservative councillor, Ray Connolly, who discusses his family’s experience after his wife, Lucy, was jailed over a tweet she briefly posted on the day three girls were killed in Stockport.
And your co-pilots weigh in on the political drama from across the Channel. Is there a new French boyfriend on the horizon for Allison?
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| 0:00.0 | Just to add to Rachel's woes, a bottomless bucket of woe. |
| 0:08.7 | There's just going to be endless speculation about what taxes she's going to have to increase again |
| 0:15.4 | in order to, quote, plug the gap in the public finances. |
| 0:20.6 | How amusing would it be if all these Bien Pons-Eur Europeans who've tried to keep Marine out ended up with a 30-year-old boy president? |
| 0:32.0 | You now see a new French boyfriend looming on the horizon. |
| 0:36.1 | One. |
| 0:39.7 | We have left off. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:46.5 | Hello. |
| 0:47.2 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:49.0 | They called it terrible Tuesday, Alison. |
| 0:52.0 | Because Tuesday the 1st of April, a lot of us felt like fools, as |
| 0:56.1 | UK households endured what felt like a cost of living onslaught. Energy bills went up, water and |
| 1:01.8 | broadband bills went up, some transport fees and TV licenses went up, and on top of that, |
| 1:06.2 | a host of taxes went up on Tuesday, not least council tax, capital gains tax, vehicle excise tax went |
| 1:12.5 | up as his stamp duty, making it harder to buy and sell homes. Now, Prime Minister Kirstal |
| 1:18.6 | has been keen to point out that the minimum wage is going up by almost 7%, and by close to 17% |
| 1:25.1 | for 18 to 20 year olds. |
| 1:30.8 | But that's a wage hike politicians like to take credit for, |
| 1:33.2 | but it's paid for, of course, by businesses. |
| 1:37.0 | And of course, at the start of the new tax year, that's the 6th of April, |
| 1:42.1 | firms will be hit again by a massive 25 billion pound hike in employer national insurance contributions. Just the prospect of that's |
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