Rishi Sunak four weeks on

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In a special episode of the New Statesman podcast, recorded live at the Cambridge Literary Festival, Rachel Wearmouth, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker look back at the last few weeks in politics, including the fall out from the Autumn Statement, how Rishi Sunak is going down with voters and whether Labour is finding its voice.

Then they take questions from the audience on everything from Brexit, to Jeremy Corbyn running as independent parliamentary candidate, to whether it matters if Twitter collapses under Elon Musk's leadership.

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1:09.6	Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm Ben. I'm Freddie. And on today's New Statesman podcast recorded live
1:16.2	at the Cambridge Ellipse Jeff Festival. We'll be talking about the fallout from Jeremy Hunt's autumn
1:21.6	statement, how Rushi Soonak's first month as Prime Minister has gone, and then we'll move on to some
1:26.4	questions. So just to take you through all of the things that were announced in the autumn statement
1:42.3	of which were all very, very, very uplifting. So there were a number of stealth taxes,
1:47.8	so freeze-on-income tax, which means a lot of people would pay in lot more tax because they'll
1:51.4	be dragged into different tax bans. The Jeremy Hunt also delayed some of the biggest spending cuts
1:55.4	until after the next election. The Office for Budget Responsibility confirmed the UK's in recession.
2:01.3	The Chancellor also lifted the cap on the council tax rises that local authorities can put in place
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