Spring Budget Special
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Strap in, its Budget week and the Planet Normal rocket has got a first class ticket to the most eagerly anticipated financial breakdown of this Spring.
Co-pilot Pearson has been sent off on a special mission (more on that to come) so Telegraph Associate Editor Ben Wright is keeping her seat warm. So: are we on course for a rocky economic ride?
Liam is quietly optimistic that this ‘steady as she goes budget’ is better than anticipated, and could help erase the scars of former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini Autumn Budget.
Whilst Ben worries that the Chancellor's calm ‘bedside manner’ could be treating the symptoms rather than addressing the real problems.
And both co-pilots ponder the position of the opposition and question whether Labour could be a safer pair of hands to move the country forwards into smoother economic waters.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Jeremy Hunter has got the bedside manner of a very competent doctor. |
| 0:14.0 | It's all very calming. |
| 0:15.0 | If you're being rude, you might say, soporific. |
| 0:19.0 | He's delivered this study as she goes, budget. |
| 0:21.0 | A lot of his own back benches will be saying, |
| 0:23.0 | why aren't you taking more risks? |
| 0:25.0 | Why did you raise corporation tax? |
| 0:28.0 | He couldn't help thinking that he was sort of busy treating a series of symptoms, |
| 0:33.0 | rather than the underlying pathology. |
| 0:36.0 | Jeremy Hunt is now Jeremy from accounts, |
| 0:40.0 | rather than the Cape Crusading tax cutter, |
| 0:43.0 | which he wanted to be when he was campaigning to be Tory leader. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:55.0 | the Telugu off podcast, |
| 0:57.0 | ordinarily with Alison Pearson and Mealium Halligan. |
| 0:59.0 | But today dear listeners, Copilot Pearson, |
| 1:02.0 | she's at way on a special mission, |
| 1:04.0 | more on that later. |
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