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Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.

If you add up the headlines from the budget

that we're not supposed to call a budget,

the dramatic drop in living standards,

the recession, the tax rises and the spending cuts,

you've got an enormous job of work

for those who speak up for and try to help those

in the greatest need.

My guest on Political Thinking this week is Claire Moriarty.

She's the chief executive of Citizens Advice,

one of the largest volunteer organisations in the country.

And she's no stranger to difficult times

because she was the permanent secretary of DEXIU,

the department that was meant to deliver Brexit

or exit from the EU.

She left that job to take up the job she's in now

and says that it made her feel like she was coming home.

Claire Moriarty, welcome to Political Thinking.

Thank you. It's great to be here.

It's very well known Citizens Advice

and yet what it actually does is not very well known.

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