Reeves My Lips, No New Taxes (On Business)

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Today, we look at the Chancellor Rachel Reeves defending her budget, telling businesses she is “not coming back with more borrowing or more taxes”. Reeves was speaking at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference. Her message comes after the boss of biscuit company McVitie’s warned it was becoming “harder to understand” the case for investing in the UK. Adam and Chris are joined by BBC business editor Simon Jack. And, Europe editor Katya Adler tells Adam about her interview with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In it, Merkel discusses dealing with President Putin, growing up in East Germany and Brexit regrets.

You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, hope you had a good weekend.
0:06.2	Kier Starrmer has done that classic thing Prime Ministers do when they go and sit on the This Morning sofa.
0:12.1	They reveal things about their life in a way that afterwards you can sort of imagine them thinking, oh, why should I say that?
0:18.1	So first of all, we learnt that he did an escape room on Sunday for his daughter's birthday.
0:23.4	Insert your own metaphor there.
0:25.0	And we also heard his go-to meal.
0:28.0	It's the one the kids make me do over and over again.
0:30.3	It's a pasta bake where you do layers of sort of handmade sauce, then different cheeses.
0:36.2	And you layer it up with a sauce on top.
0:39.0	Oh.
0:39.4	Which I wouldn't say is necessarily the best dish ever.
0:42.7	Is it lasagna?
0:43.8	No, no, no, no, no, no.
0:45.9	So the way it works on a sastast...
0:50.1	I like to cook on a Saturday.
0:51.4	So I say, I get the rest of people count and I go through, I'm going to do this, I'm going to, then the kids get involved.
0:57.2	And we negotiate and we end up with a pasta bake very, very often.
1:01.8	Sounds delicious, but I think he's a bit frustrated because he wants to cook something fancier.
1:05.6	So throughout this episode, I will be asking everyone who appears what their go-to meal is.
1:10.8	I've got three.
1:12.2	And I think the tastiest one is Nigella's Fishfinger Borta,
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