The New Statesman.

Yesterday, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her spring statement.

It was supposed to be a fiscal non-event.

And with the news completely dominated by conflict in the Middle East, you would be forgiven for not noticing it.

In fact, many have deduced that this was exactly what the government was

hoping for. So today we're going to pay close attention to events the government hoped we might

ignore. This is Daily Politics from the New Statesman. I'm Anoushekeleon and I'm joined by my

colleague Will Dun to discuss it. Hi Will. Hello. That's what we do, isn't it? We pay close

attention to things the government hopes we will ignore.

We do.

Yeah, that's our job description.

Often the readers ignore it too, in my experience.

The close to the attention we pay, the less attention the readers pay.

But you have actually written a brilliant sketch about Rachel Reeves's

Spring Statement for this week's issue, at which our listeners and our viewers can find online.

And the basis of your sketch was essentially that this was that dog in a burning room meme.

This is all fine while everything's in flames.

This is fine dog, yeah's in flame. This is fine dog.

Yeah.

And I guess that is not necessarily Rachel Reeves fault.

It's certainly not the OBR's fault.

It's Donald Trump's fault.

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