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Hello and welcome to the All-Out Politics podcast. I'm Adam Bolton. This week we're going to talk about those classic political issues of tax and spending.

Joining me are the Chief Executive Office of the New Economics Foundation, Miata Fanbulla, the telegraph columnist and parliamentary sketchwriter Madeline Grant and Sky's political correspondent Rob Powell.

So we're going to assess the dynamic between Numbers 10 and number 11 Downing Street

and widespread reports of tensions over how the government should approach spending going ahead.

The Prime Minister, we know, likes big projects,

and he's reportedly keen to spend big on new policies.

The Treasury, true to form, is understood to be questioning their affordability.

And, of course, there are those pledges made in the Conservative 2019 manifesto not to put up main taxes and to preserve

the pensions triple lock. Can it all be done or is Boris Johnson versus Rishi Sunak becoming

the new Blair versus Brown Fisher at the heart of the government.

Let's start by looking at some of the big issues.

First of all, the triple lock on pensions.

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