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Rishi Sunak opened his wallet possibly for the last time this week as the Chancellor admitted the country is facing very tough choices ahead after

coronavirus.

Our health emergency is not yet over and our economic emergency has only just begun.

So our immediate priority is to protect people's lives and livelihoods.

Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British

politics from the Financial Times with me Sebastian Payne.

In this week's episode I'll be examining Mr. Sunec's spending review, which saw the Chancellor

pour more money into defense and supporting jobs but slashed foreign aid and froze public sector

pay.

Unpicking the data and the strategy is our political

editor George Parker and economics editor Chris Giles. And later we'll be

looking at the new coronavirus restrictions, the introduction of the winter tiering

system, the backlash from Conservative MPs and whether a vaccine is going to come to the rescue

in the spring.

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