What does the Budget mean for you... and how bad was it?

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After the endless speculation, the Budget finally arrived this week.
Rachel Reeves seemed happy with her statement and Sir Keir Starmer has been out singing its praises, but was the Budget a diamond in the rough or a dud?
On this Budget 2025 podcast, Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert dive into a Budget that many have commented is the most chaotic they can remember.
After all the rumours, worries and waiting, how good or bad was it?
Some of the expected financial pain didn't arrive but there were plenty of tweaks to tax our pocket and our patience.
Did the Chancellor cut the right balance between getting more money in and supporting the economy, did she articulate a clear plan, or are we back to drifting about aimlessly in the tax and spending doom loop doldrums?
And most importantly, what will all the measures mean for your money?

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money podcast, sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon
0:07.8	Lambert today is Lee Boyce. And coming up, the budget. What else? Don't forget, you can stay up to date with all the latest
0:14.0	breaking money news. Just go to this ismoney.com.com or download the app. But first, a message from our sponsors.
0:20.6	If you're wondering how the new rules in the budget affect your first, a message from our sponsors.
0:27.1	If you're wondering how the new rules in the budget affect your finances, Lisa Kaplan and her team at Charles Stully Direct are here to help.
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0:39.2	Go on, get answers you can trust.
0:41.4	Remember, investment involves risk.
0:43.2	Now let's get back to the show.
0:45.1	So finally, we got the budget this week.
0:48.0	Did it live up to the hype?
0:49.5	How did it go down with the markets?
0:51.2	The public?
0:52.1	Business.
0:53.2	Has it sorted out Britain's finances? Plus,
0:55.9	how did the OBR report get leaked beforehand? Simon and Lee are here to guide us through
1:01.8	the drama, through all the measures and what they mean for us and our money. But first,
1:07.2	Lee, Simon, welcome a bit of a, as the youngans say, a bit of a vibe check.
1:13.3	An embarrassing OBR leak and admonishment from the Speaker of the House. It was a pretty
1:18.8	poor start, I think, to the whole affair which had been going on for a very long time and
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