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Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

The Budget, Grammar Schools and Geert Wilders

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.0156 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton hosts this week's edition starting with an assessment of the Chancellor's Budget and the 'Policy versus Promise' row over rises to National Insurance for the self-employed. There's a debate over the government's drive for more Grammar schools in England and a discussion about next week's election in the Netherlands where anti-EU and anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders is favourite to win. Adam is joined by Sky's political correspondent Lewis Goodall, Head of Data Harry Carr and - from Brussels - the FT's Duncan Robinson. #Budget2017 #Grammar #DutchElection

Transcript

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0:00.0

The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.

0:03.0

How can we make sense of it all?

0:04.8

I'm Richard Engle.

0:05.6

And I'm Yalda Heikim.

0:06.7

And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.

0:10.8

And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.

0:14.6

Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events

0:18.5

and explain to you why what happens out there matters to you wherever you are.

0:24.6

Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:44.2

Hello, I'm Adam Bolton. Welcome to the All-Out Politics podcast. Coming up, we'll be talking about the budget.

0:52.1

Is the national insurance hike for the self-employed right and fair, or is the Chancellor really spite van man?

0:56.0

Grammar schools, as they're provided with extra funding,

0:58.7

are the media getting the balance right in coverage over the preponderance of evidence against them?

1:02.5

And we'll have Duncan Robinson from the Financial Times

1:05.2

joining us on the line to preview the Dutch elections.

1:08.9

Has Geert Wilders of the far right already won, regardless of

1:13.0

the results on Wednesday? Joining us throughout this podcast are our political correspondent

1:18.6

Lewis Goodall and, as ever, the head of Sky Data, Harry Carr.

1:26.9

Well, let's start with the budget.

1:30.2

Most of the headlines this morning are about a rise in a national insurance contribution for the self-employed,

1:35.5

which contradicted a manifesto commitment made by David Cameron in 2015 for the general election.

1:44.2

So, Lewis, let's just talk about the politics of this.

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