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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Tax rise rumours, porn laws and Beckham knighthood

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0224 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Reeves sparks rumours of new tax rises. New porn laws will ban strangling to protect women and girls. And, be knighted…Sir David Beckham and Mel Stride! Find out who else collects honours today at Windsor Castle. Sophy And Wilf chat through all you need to know to get up to date with today's headlines in 10 minutes.

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Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, the podcast that gets you up to speed without the doom scrolling.

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I'm Wilfred Frost. And I'm Sophie Ridge. It is Tuesday, the 4th of November. What's happening today, Wolf? Well, top story. Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, has made a big hint that there could be more tax rises to come, possibly ones that break the manifesto. She's making a speech in Downing Street, ATN. Online porn showing women being choked

1:12.1

is going to be banned. This is the latest move to try and tackle violence against women and girls.

1:16.3

We'll also discuss if young drivers on the road should have restrictions on their driving licenses.

1:21.9

And nighthoods are being awarded at Windsor Castle today. David Beckham, perhaps the most

1:26.1

high-profile name on the list. We'll discuss

1:28.0

who else is on it. So the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is due to give a speech today in Downing

1:37.5

Street at 8am. It's quite a odd move. Some of what she's expected to say has started to come out. And essentially, Sophie,

1:46.9

we're reading this a few weeks away from the budget as she's preparing the ground to raise

1:52.2

taxes, possibly even we think some that they pledged in the manifesto that they wouldn't raise.

1:56.8

Yeah, that is right. It's really, really unusual. It's really unusual. And I think that shows how much of a sticky wicket Rachel Rees is on, the fact that she's obviously felt that it's necessary to do this, to do some of that pitch rolling. She can't say too much. We're not expecting, you know, big policy announcements ahead of the budget. But I picked up a couple of clues in what she said, and it's this bit in particular, because she talks about the people's priorities,

2:21.8

which basically means the government's priorities, right? Because everyone's got different

2:24.8

priorities. Come on. I hate that sort of word. But anyway, she says the three key priorities

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