The budget recovery plan!
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As a bonus episode, we’re bringing listeners of The Story an episode from the new Money Podcast from The Times. Rachel Reeves’ first budget raised taxes by more than expected, borrowed more than predicted, and brought higher taxes on employers than forecast. But now, Holly is at hand with a podcast pick-me-up! It is time to get down to brass tacks as she is joined by experts whose job is to help you understand money better.
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- Chris Etherington, tax analyst.
- Tom McPhail, pensions expert.
- Jo Noble, Money Editor, The Times and Sunday Times.
Host: Holly Mead, Deputy Money Editor, The Times and Sunday Times.
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| 1:27.2 | Hello, Luke here. After the Chancellor unveiled her budget this week, you might have been thinking, well, it's all very interesting, but how does it affect me? Well, a new sister podcast, feel better about money. I've got you covered with my colleagues, Deputy Money Editor Holly Mead and Money Reporter Lucy Andrews. |
| 1:55.8 | Hello, this is Feel Better About Money. I'm Holly Mead and welcome to the Budget Survivors Club. We made it, guys. Just one week into our existence as a podcast and we had a budget because |
| 2:01.5 | that's how we like to plan things here at the Times and Sunday Times. And a very big and |
| 2:05.9 | consequential budget it was too. It's often said that budgets can change your finances for years, |
| 2:11.9 | decades even. Are we in that situation today? Let's find out. On our new weekly podcast from the Times and |
| 2:19.2 | Sunday Times, we are here to talk about money, bravely, confidently, openly. And today we are |
| 2:26.0 | bravely taking on the budget. The most talked about leaked for weeks, anticipated budget of |
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