Spring Statement Special
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils her first ‘Spring Statement’ your co-pilots are joined on the rocket by not one but TWO very special incumbents. Calculators and spreadsheets at the ready…
Co-pilot Pearson is less than impressed with what she calls the ‘nothing to do with me guv', Budget.
Stowaway economist Roger Bootle was both ‘depressed’ and 'amazed’ by the Statement but reveals an overwhelming feeling that the Labour Party aren’t actually doing anything all that bad…
And after watching the Budget co-pilot Halligan is concerned the Labour front bench is lacking in business and economic knowledge.
Also on the podcast, Mike Calvey straps in for a very special interview to discuss his new book ‘Odyssey Moscow’ which details his harrowing ordeal as a prisoner of the Russian State.
And co-pilot Pearson has won an award…
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Read Allison: ‘If Rachel Reeves were Conservative she’d have been turfed out long ago’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/25/if-reeves-were-conservative-shed-have-been-turfed-out/ |
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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 | There's an extensor which this budget is politically tone deaf. |
| 0:15.0 | The Chancellor's playing lots of political games here. |
| 0:19.0 | Four. |
| 0:20.0 | I thought the measures were in total a bit... |
| 0:23.0 | ...ner, really. |
| 0:24.0 | It's an technical term business columnist. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, ner. |
| 0:28.0 | I think there were genuine cuts. |
| 0:30.0 | But there was quite a lot of robbing Peter to pay poor and smoking mirrors. |
| 0:36.0 | It just felt a bit to me like the fiscal equivalent of your dad turning down the thermostat... |
| 0:41.0 | ...and telling you to wear an extra jumper. |
| 0:43.0 | Put a hat on. |
| 0:44.0 | Put a hat on Ben Wright. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, exactly. |
| 0:46.0 | One. |
| 0:50.0 | We have been gone. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:57.0 | And ordinarily, Alison Pearson. |
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