Spring Statement - 👍 or 👎? (Thumbs up, Thumbs down)

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We take a look at the Spring Statement made by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves this week in Parliament -

-What were the key policies?

-What difference will this make and to whom?

-How did the other parties respond?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we take matters of local, national and international political importance and discuss them in a fair, reasonable and even-handed way. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.
0:15.0	And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Are you fair and unreasonable? I think I'm probably the most reasonable of the two of us.
0:22.4	I think it's yourself.
0:24.1	It's a bit of a firebrand when it comes to matters political.
0:27.8	Okay.
0:28.5	Answers in the comments, please.
0:30.3	Exactly.
0:31.7	And it's our last podcast before we get greener as the clocks go
0:37.9	whatever they go do tomorrow spring forward
0:40.2	and we can broadcast without
0:42.9	there having to be a
0:44.1	without there having to be lights on in the background
0:47.4	okay yeah that will
0:49.8	that will save us the like 12p
0:53.0	or something from the LEDs that we've got running.
0:56.1	Well done for going green, mate.
0:58.3	Yeah, absolutely.
0:59.8	It's the way forward.
1:01.4	And so this week it's just the two of us.
1:05.3	There's a song in that somewhere.
1:06.7	And we're going to unpick Rachel from Accounts, stood up on Wednesday and gave us, I think, what she described as her spring statement.
1:16.2	And I think what that lovable scamp, Mel Stride, described as an emergency budget.
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