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Head to octopusevo.com to get started today. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times I'm Matt Cholly

I've decamped from our usual studio to the Houses of Parliament sitting in a

green leather armchair bearing the gold

port callous of Parliament sitting in the upper gallery just outside where journalists sit and

watch what's happening in the Commons Chamber.

Here for the Spring statement, Philip Hammond's low key update on what's happening with the economy.

It's almost like he didn't want anyone to notice, frankly, what was happening in the Commons.

Are we a bit much perhaps to think that the Chancellor had a hand in the Salisbury spy poisoning,

suspect packages in Parliament, the Speaker facing a plot to oust him bullying claims in

golf in the Commons, a footballer, a footballer and Ken Dodd's

marathon 90-year performance finally coming to an end.

Hammond would be forgiven for being furious at being overshadowed, where he not so keen on being overshadowed?

No big new policy announcements in the statement.

We'll unpick what happened in the politics of it all.

We'll also discuss Russia and what exactly Britain can do if, as everyone now

assumes, Moscow is found to have been behind the poisoning in Salisbury and we'll take a

look at the bullying scandal and whether or not it really

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