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Hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than a newsy interrogation

of someone who shapes our political thinking. This week I've been to Number 11

Downing Street. I've been there to talk to Jeremy Hunt who's preparing the budget that he's going to deliver in a few weeks time,

what was striking about our conversation is how willing he was to hit back at those who are telling him not to cut taxes.

All those organisations with acronyms, the IMF, the OBR, the I S. Mr. Hunt remember became Chancellor when Liz Truss had tried to cut taxes in a hurry and created

something of an economic mess.

So it's striking that now he wants to be the guy who says

he can deliver cuts in taxation.

Here's that interview.

Well, Chancellor, thank you for having us here inside Number 11 in a rather grand dining room.

Yes, welcome, Nick. It's great to see you here.

We're in 11 Downing Street. This is your

office here. You host meetings and dinners in this particular room, but it is also

your home. What is it like living above the shop? Well the first thing is

that I never expected to be here and as I think you know when I when I got the call

from Liz Truss I was so disbelieving that I actually zapped it, refused to take it because I

didn't think she could possibly be wanting to call me. So it's quite a big surprise and of course

a huge privilege to be here and the loveliest thing about it is that my

family are in the flat upstairs and so my kids can walk into my study and we can chat about this and that and that is I've got to a stage

in life where I like spending time with my kids in fact I have a bit of a conscience that I haven't

been doing enough of that to date and so that is lovely.

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