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Hello and welcome to the Sophieely Ridge on Sunday podcast.

Ahead of the budget on Wednesday and with huge questions to be answered about taxes, the recovery and the future of COVID economic support.

We spoke to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his Labour shadow and Lee's Dodds.

Thank you. and Lisa Dodds. We were joined on the podcast by Matthew Lavender.

Hello, you're okay?

I'm okay, yeah, how are you?

Yeah, not too bad. It's weird. We're back to doing it in different places.

Yes, we are, because we did the show from Westminster this

morning because we had Rishi Sunak in the studio, very unusual of course, for the government

minister to be in the studio, but it's a big weekend, pre-budget, so it was a big interview.

Yeah, slightly different. I mean, the government have been complying with their own stay-at-home message,

haven't they, in recent weeks and doing everything on Zoom, but it's slightly different. I mean, the government have been complying with their own stay-at-home message, haven't they, in recent weeks and doing everything on Zoom.

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