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Hello and

welcome to Coffey House Shots, the Spectator's daily politics

podcast.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by Katie Bulls and

James Hill.

Now Katie, it's a busy day for Westminster.

The Chancellor's delivering a speech later and it's also the Tory leadership

race deadline for people looking to enter. Do you want to update on a few of the announcements over the weekend?

So we're waiting for Rachel Reeves to address the comments later, then speak to journalists

early evening, and I think, you know, it's pretty much, you know, blame the Tory's day.

That's going to be the main gist of things. I think we're probably best placed given not too

much to change since Friday in terms of you know we're expecting some immediate savings when

she gives us announcement but largely laying the groundwork for tax rises in

the autumn too to delve into that post statement so I think we'll come to that later in terms

of I think the Tory leadership, now the deadline is early afternoon, it feels

as though there are six candidates barring any huge surprises with Kenny Bedin

on the latest to declare. She actually handed in her form of her nominations I think

you know last week as soon as they opened but unlike Robert Janrick chose not to do

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