The Budget: Losing A Few Pounds
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Hunt has delivered what is probably his last Budget before the general election, and as well as offering tax cuts he found time to refer to Peter Mandelson's suggestion that Keir Starmer 'shed a few pounds'.
Times columnist Patrick Maguire joins Matt to look at the chancellor's offer to the electorate and to consider Labour's response.
Plus: PMQs Unpacked seeks Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer trade blows over law and order.
The Budget (00:50)
PMQs Unpacked (15:25)
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| 0:41.0 | No Boring Bits today. |
| 0:42.4 | The Budget's possibly the last big fiscal event before a |
| 0:46.1 | general election. Patrick McGuire joins me for instant reaction as Jeremy Hunt |
| 0:50.8 | lays out his tax and spending plans. |
| 0:54.8 | But also as it's a Wednesday bringing PMQ's unpacked, |
| 0:58.0 | Tim Shipman and Larma Spirit joined me |
| 1:00.1 | to pause the action from the House of Commons |
| 1:02.4 | as Kiestummer went on law and order and policing the police on a big economic day. |
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| 1:23.0 | Now it's lunchtime on budget day the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has just sat down here. |
| 1:32.0 | It's how he wrapped up his budget and put a bow on it. |
| 1:34.8 | A plan to grow the economy versus no plan. |
| 1:38.4 | A plan for better public services versus no plan. |
| 1:42.0 | A plan to make work pay versus no |
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