Sunak's Speech Against Extremism + What to Expect in the Budget
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we reflect on Rishi Sunak’s statement outside Downing Street on extremism and we look ahead to next week’s budget.
Laura and Paddy break down the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday evening and explain what he was trying to achieve with it.
And the budget will be announced on Wednesday afternoon, and it is reportedly, not going to be a budget that the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, would have hoped for at the start of the year. To explain why, Laura and Paddy are joined by the BBC’s economics editor, Faisal Islam.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, Laura. |
| 0:06.8 | Are you all right? |
| 0:07.4 | Yes, I'm very, very well, and the big pre-program gossip point is Rachel Reeves. |
| 0:16.0 | Yes, Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor, |
| 0:18.2 | who is not doing the Sunday round of interviews tomorrow. |
| 0:21.1 | She's going to do the Sunday round of interviews next week in a |
| 0:23.7 | break with Westminster tradition which is quite interesting. |
| 0:26.5 | Yes sad as I am. But in another break with tradition she's given one of those |
| 0:30.6 | interviews from the left brain, |
| 0:33.0 | ones that you've told us to watch out for. |
| 0:35.3 | Yes. |
| 0:36.3 | So for appearances, hello magazine, and interesting, intriguing snippets. |
| 0:41.4 | Hinterlands. Politicians with Hinterlands, and she's asked in a, look, a very glossy piece in the Telegraph |
| 0:47.8 | magazine who her dream dinner party guest would be. |
| 0:50.9 | And now we know one thing about Rachel Rieces is she's really into chess and she was like the |
| 0:54.8 | superstar chess champion of the world or something when she was about seven years old. |
| 0:58.7 | So one of the people on her list is Gary Kasperov. |
| 1:01.6 | I suppose that's not a surprise. I've played chess with her. Have you? I don't I mean I don't actually play chess. I took her chessboard in order to get in |
| 1:10.6 | ridiculous political puns. |
| 1:12.8 | Very good. How did you do? |
| 1:14.7 | I think my puns was very good. |
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