Summary
Budgets, booze and The Beatles...
Rishi Sunak made some big announcements in his Budget and Spending Review today. His speech included changes to Universal Tax Credit, Business rates and taxation. Adam, Laura and "PJ" from the Institute for Fiscal Studies get into it all.
And (because booze is one of the big topics of the day) we hear from the Head Winemaker at The Bolney Wine Estate. How much will a bottle of bubbles set you back now?
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj, with Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. Hannah Montgomery is the studio director. Sam Bonham is the assistant editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's the day of the Budget and the Spending Review, a big day in politics for lots of reasons, |
| 0:10.9 | but can I let you into a little secret? |
| 0:12.3 | My favorite bit of Budget Day is always the little |
| 0:16.4 | local project that catches your eye when the Chancellor is doing the big speech. I always remember |
| 0:22.0 | one year it was George Osborne refurbishing Churchill's |
| 0:25.9 | Battle of Britain bunker which was in Boris Johnson's constituency and this year it was the |
| 0:30.9 | news that there's going to be 2 million pounds spent on developing proposals |
| 0:35.1 | for a new Beatles attraction on the waterfront in Liverpool. But that got me thinking, |
| 0:40.6 | I've been to Liverpool a few times times and you can't miss all the Beatles |
| 0:44.2 | attractions that exist there already so how's this going down with someone who |
| 0:48.2 | runs one of them well rogue best is that person hello rogue. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi tell me about your Beatles attraction. best is that person. Hello Rogue. Hi. |
| 0:53.0 | Tell me about your Beatles attraction, existing Beatles attraction. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, we're the Liverpool Beatles Museum on Matthew Street and Matthew Street is the heartbeat of |
| 1:04.3 | Liverpool's tourism so it's the perfect spot for us to be. So what did you think when |
| 1:09.6 | you heard in the budget there was some money available for a new Beatles museum. |
| 1:14.0 | To be honest with you Adam I don't follow the budgets. |
| 1:17.0 | Shoot me, but I don't follow the budget. |
| 1:19.0 | Like a normal person basically. |
| 1:21.0 | So, and then the face I heard was that basically, you know, my phone started bringing off the hook people saying, |
| 1:27.4 | hey, do you know about this? Do you know about this? And to be quite frank, I didn't, you know and and I don't believe that a lot of people in |
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