The economy is a laffer minute
Planet Normal
Theodora Louloudis
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The rocket welcomes stowaway Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mel Stride aboard.
As Rachel Reeves announces a clunky U-turn on winter fuel payments, your co-pilots clear a way through the confusion so you can keep up to date with the latest turmoil from the Labour benches.
Allison thinks Rachel Reeves’ time is up and she’s ‘for the chop’ because of her ‘iron-clad’ fiscal rules being undermined by the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile Liam thinks the Tories need to be bolder in their ideas to challenge the harm he says Labour are doing to the economy and stifling growth.
Read Liam ‘This is the opportunity the Tories have been waiting for. Can they take it?’
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Allison ‘Don’t believe Starmer when he says he’s angry about the small boats’:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/03/defence-starmer-priority-invasion-illegal-migrants/ |
Read Allison ‘The BBC’s biased Israel reporting is fuelling anti-Semitism’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/04/the-bbcs-biased-israel-reporting-fuelling-anti-semitism/
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
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| 0:51.8 | This huge immigration angst isn't a problem. |
| 0:56.5 | It's a meal ticket. |
| 0:58.3 | Four. |
| 1:00.1 | The defence of our realm is literally down to whether it starts raining or not or gets a bit windy. |
| 1:07.8 | Three. |
| 1:09.0 | I think the Isle of Man might actually be planet normal. |
| 1:13.5 | Two. |
| 1:14.7 | My point about Nigel Farage and Reform being called in within different colours is there's a deep, |
| 1:20.6 | dangerous fiscal irresponsibility at the heart of the offer that Reform has. |
| 1:26.8 | One. We have. at the heart of the offer that Reform has. |
| 1:37.9 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
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