What would YOU do if you were Chancellor for the Budget?
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4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
But within days, Rachel Reeves and co poured cold water over all that - and the gloom and doom about the economy and what then could be (and crucially not be) in the Budget hasn’t stopped.
Well Simon Lambert is fed up. So he has put forward an alternative budget with less than two weeks to go. Do you agree with him? And what would you do?
Alongside Georgie Frost and Lee Boyce, the trio talk about budget pessimism. Did it need to be this way?
There has been plenty of speculation that NI paid by employers will rise and they may even have to pay NI on pension contributions. What does that mean?
This week, CPI fell below the Bank of England's 2 per cent target in September, reaching its lowest point in three years. What does that mean for interest rates?
More major lenders have put mortgage rates up - where next for home loan deals... and just what is Sonia, if not an Eastenders character or 80s pop star?
And lastly, there has been plenty of pre-budget speculation about inheritance tax. But what about the here and now... can you really get caught out by taking your extended family on an annual holiday?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce. |
| 0:10.5 | And coming up, wannabe Chancellor Simon Lambert has come up with an alternative budget. |
| 0:16.4 | Take note, Rachel Reeves. |
| 0:18.3 | One proposal that he has doubts over is a national insurance hike for employers. |
| 0:23.5 | Manifesto semantics, it might be, but will it end up costing you a worker money? |
| 0:29.3 | Also today, inflation fell to the lowest level in three years, but what happens next? |
| 0:34.1 | If interest rates are expected to fall, why are mortgage rates on the rise? And can |
| 0:38.7 | one elderly This Is Money Reader take their family on an annual holiday without falling into |
| 0:44.1 | the inheritance tax trap? Don't forget, you stay up today. With all the latest breaking |
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