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Feel good travel. Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne. in this week's episode

we'll be discussing the unraveling of Philip Hammond's budget on whether the

United Kingdom can survive Brexit. I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker

the FT's political editor, Employment Correspondent,

Sarah O'Connor, Henry Mann's Political Correspondent, and our Ireland Correspondent Vincent Boland.

Thank you all for joining.

Philip Hammond delivered his first and last spring budget this week,

and it did not take long for it to become unstuck.

With no white rabbits or fancy new policies,

focus rapidly turned to hikes in national insurance for the self-employed,

or 15% of the UK's workforce.

Mr. Hammond announced he was raising their NIH to be more in line with that of the

employed out of fairness, but it was

also to pay for an extra $2 billion in social care spending. In and outside of Parliament,

anger has been growing all week at a measure that strikes at the heart of the conservative

entrepreneurial ideal. It was also awkwardly happened to be a Tory manifesto

commitment. At least 20 Conservative MPs are thought to be pretty unhappy with

this as are significant sections of the Tory press.

So Sarah O'Connor, before we get into the politics of all this, these NI changes are not the most

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