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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots and Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsynev and Issafe and Isabel Hardman.

It's the day before the budget and Rishi Sunnick has found himself in trouble, not just with Labour,

who are so far distinctly unimpressed if we take out Andy Burn and the Metro Mayor who like some of what has been announced when it involves money for his area,

but in the form of the House of Commons Speaker, Isabel, what happened yesterday?

So the speaker has complained again today, but also complained yesterday about the number of announcements that are being made in the media before the budget rather than in the House of Commons.

And he's been getting increasingly agitated about the way in which ministers are either using Downing Street press briefings or the press to announce things

and then later turning up in the House of Commons to sort of just seal the deal with MPs

essentially. And he's been threatening more urgent questions, which seems to be a consequence

that ministers are quite happy to take because they've continued to announce more policies in the media

and the run-up to the budget and they continue to send out to junior ministers to answer these

urgent questions rather than obviously summoning the chancellor and so on. And so I think this is

something that we've seen for a very long time, which is pre-briefing of the budget in one way or another.

It's really just part of good media management.

I think a lot of spinners would say that you don't want to leave all your announcements until budget day because some of the good ones will get overshadowed by something bad or some of the smaller but still good announcements will get overshadowed by something bad, or some of the smaller but still good announcements will get overshadowed by the big rabbit

that the Chancellor produces, if indeed he is producing a rabbit on Budget Day.

But the problem is that they've been much more explicit in their announcing this year

rather than just sort of subtly briefing that

this is expected to happen. And I don't think the speaker would be as angry about it if he

hadn't got worked up last week about the coronavirus briefing, which was held in Downing Street.

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