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I'm Neil Patterson. Welcome to this special edition of the Sky News Daily podcast, where we're going to be looking back at 2023 through the

prism of economics, the numbers, the data, the cash in your pocket. Times, well, they are

certainly tough right now. Indeed, they have been that way for longer than any of us would care

to remember. But are we looking towards the future with optimism, or are we scrabbling

around down the back of the nation's sofa looking for some spare change?

Someone not short of the answers, and indeed not short of a bob or two, our economics and data editor, Ed Conway.

If only.

Nice to see you, Ed.

Nice to see you.

I suppose the easiest way to start this is looking back on the year. Starting at the very beginning, 2022 was pretty rough. Limey, yeah. Yeah, we had Liz Truss, we had quasi-quarteng, we had the mini budget, we had all the ructions in the economy. 2023, Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt were supposed to steady the ship, did they?

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