The Budget: What To Watch Out For
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, with rumours circulating about the budget, what are the changes that could impact you?
On the eve of the budget it has confirmed that more drinks will be included in the so called “sugar tax” and there will be an increase in the minimum + living wage. But what other changes could happen?
Will there be changes to the way you can save into an ISA? Could a “tourist tax” be introduced in some cities? And, will there be changes to council tax?
Adam and Chris are joined by Claer Barrett, consumer editor at the FT.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Chris, you have returned from the G20 Summit in South Africa to another huge international story. |
| 0:11.3 | Kirstarmer having to apologise for doing the 6-7 dance in a school where the dance is banned. |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, and so as the parents of children who were also caught up in this obsession, the very |
| 0:23.9 | thought of it makes me put my hand over my face. |
| 0:28.1 | So for those newscasters... |
| 0:29.1 | Not wave your arms like in the dance. |
| 0:30.6 | Well, this is the thing. |
| 0:31.7 | So for newscasters who have been spared this, and believe you me, if you have, count |
| 0:36.3 | yourself blessed in all of this is this craze |
| 0:39.3 | that is sweeping amongst i don't know if it's just primary school age children or if it extends |
| 0:42.7 | beyond but particularly primary school age children which is wherever they see the numbers six |
| 0:47.3 | and seven in close proximity like walking past a house that is number 67 or in the instance of the |
| 0:52.1 | prime minister at a school in Cambridge, I think it was, |
| 0:55.2 | where they were on page 67 of a book, there is a high likelihood that the children will go, |
| 1:01.1 | six, seven, six, seven, and do a little, little dance with their hands moving up and down in rapid, rapid, fire, sort of quick succession. |
| 1:09.1 | Anyway, the prime minister decided to do a bit of this, |
| 1:13.4 | much to the mild irritation, I think, of the teachers, |
| 1:17.5 | who no doubt on a near daily basis |
| 1:19.4 | are being confronted by this incredibly irritating trend. |
| 1:23.1 | Six-seven. |
| 1:23.8 | Six-seven. |
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