The delayed Budget, the stamp duty row and the gilts wobble – what is going on?

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

It’s September, it’s back to work, back to school and back to mild chaos.

This week saw a delayed Budget announced, with a raft of speculation that will only mount over what bad news that could mean, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner forced to quite after underpaying stamp duty to the tune of £40,000, and long-term UK borrowing costs hit the highest level in 27 years.

So, what on earth is going on? And aren’t we in the phase of the plan to get Britain’s economy back on track where things meant to be getting better not worse?

On this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert do their best to keep the politics out of it while discussing the Budget, the stamp duty row and the gilts wobble.

They explain what this all means for the UK’s national finances and our personal finances and look at whether things could really be about to improve.

Plus, should the biggest take away from the Angyouela Rayner stamp duty situation be that it’s a terrible tax that needs to be reformed so bills are slashed for all, as soon as possible?

And finally, if your pre-booked Uber fails to turn up, you miss a flight that the airline dragged forward by half a day, and end up paying £475 for new flights, should you be able to get someone other than you to foot the bill?

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce. And coming up, Sam Tutie has been in the news this week. But what are the rules when it comes to second homes? And regardless of who's buying, is it really fair having to fork out 70 grand to the
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1:16.6	But first, despite many weeks, many weeks of speculation about what might or might not be announced
1:23.6	in the upcoming autumn budget, we didn't even know the date that it would be delivered.
1:30.6	Well, we do now. And grown, it is blooming ages away. So strap yourself in, prepare for a
1:37.6	heck of a lot more of what we've been having for the last couple of months already. It is going to be
1:42.0	Wednesday, the 26th of November. The press release that accompanied
1:47.7	the announcement was titled, Budget to Address Economy That's Not Working Well Enough for Working
1:54.5	People. Rolls off the tongue there, doesn't it? Lee, Simon Wackham, Lee, oh God, oh God,
2:03.4	26th of November. You'll have something to write about. Yeah, we'll have something to write about and the good news is it's not in half-term
2:07.8	like it was last year, which just was absolute hellish. When was that? October. It was October
2:14.6	it was October the 30th, I'm going to say. It was something like that.
2:18.1	So this is quite late.
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