Where has Labour's chaotic week left the PM?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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High drama has dominated as the Chancellor signals a huge u-turn on Budget tax plans, while briefings designed to shore up Keir Starmer backfired on Number 10 in spectacular fashion. In this weekend's episode the team focus on dysfunction, paranoia and rivalry at the very top. How much trouble is the government in?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One, our weekend special.
0:15.9	And really, I'm here with Steve Richards down the line from, I think you in Inveness.
0:21.2	Is that right, Steve?
0:22.6	Actually, obviously Avimore.
0:24.8	Oh, Avimor, the slopes of Aviemore.
0:27.4	So I can see the mountains all around.
0:31.2	I'm here for work purposes, not to go up the mountains.
0:34.5	Well, it sounds absolutely beautiful.
0:35.6	I hope you took your watercolours.
0:37.7	Well, yeah. Well, yeah, if beautiful. I hope you took your watercolours. Well, yeah.
0:38.6	Well, yeah, if I could paint, yeah.
0:41.0	And we've got Tim and Ian and myself, Tim Montgomery, Ian and Martin and Miranda, Green.
0:48.0	We are all in various bits of London.
0:49.9	We have come together to talk to you this weekend because what a week chaps a level you know we were
0:58.5	speaking in really sort of relatively sensible terms on Tuesday when we met and then since then it's
1:07.1	all gone absolutely bananas downing street briefing against cabinet ministers
1:12.6	starmer and reeves deciding to do a huge apparently you turn on their strategy for the budget
1:18.6	which is you know now getting quite close uh we think they were planning to raise income tax a huge
1:25.8	huge decision to breach a manifesto promise and, you know,
1:30.0	make the bulk of the populace bear some pain to write the fiscal wrongs.
1:36.2	But no, this morning, my colleagues at the FT have an extraordinary scoop,
1:39.9	Starman Reeves, ditch plan to raise income tax rates.
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