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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy You and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth.

So it's the Friday before the budget, and we're going to give you a little bit of a look ahead

to what some of the main themes Rishi Sunak will be looking at.

Katie, what are the main themes?

I think what is the big questions is what is the economic outlook? I think what is the big question says, what is the economic outlook?

There's already been a row about the fact Rishi Sunak is the legibly wanting to use old figures to paint a more negative picture of the economy.

So he could have some better news on the day when the budget comes on Wednesday.

And then I think in a way,

there's a budget, but I think what could have a longer term in to act is the spending

review. That's the next three years. Obviously, budgets for various departments. And we know that

several of the new ministers, I think Michael Gove in terms of MCLG, you have...

The Department of Leveling Up, Housing and Communities now.

I'm sorry. I'll get that one right.

Thank you, James for stepping in.

And Nadim Zahori in Education have obviously come in after their predecessors had put in

spending bids and then they've tried to redo those spending bids.

So has that worked? Does the Treasury, you know, saying, oh, no, the old one has to stand,

or are they going to, you know, go with the new request and how generous is the Treasury going

to be? Because I think we've seen this week, slightly the various green papers, there's tension

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