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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots. I'm Kate Andrews and I'm joined today by James

Forsyth and Kate Balls. So it's been roughly 23 hours since the Chancellor laid out a 15

billion support package in addition to what he's previously announced to help people

with the cost of living cronch, particularly the lowest income households. Katie, so far,

what has the reaction been like? We know that the Chancellor has been doing the media around defending

his proposals. How are they going down? I think it's a pretty mixed reaction. In terms of the front

pages, I think Rushy's definitely generally speaking, obviously much more positive press for

the announcement yesterday than he did his spring statement, which was a really across-the-shop

criticised, where it was criticised on one side for not being conservative enough, for not cutting

enough taxes, or on the other side, for not offering enough support for the most vulnerable.

Whereas what you're seeing here is that some of the front pages saying it will finally chance

there, but generally a sense that this is well targeted. I think Rushy's seen it has also received

some praise from the Nitton's Cheap for Fiscal Studies. This guess comes with its own risks

of which we discussed yesterday, and we'll further on the Saturday edition of the podcast,

but generally speaking, it's targeted the most vulnerable. I think that has landed well.

Where, of course, you are getting criticism, and especially in some of the right leaning papers

and this echoed in parts of the Tory party, is yes, people are saying all you need is relief,

but whether you're going to start cutting taxes. Obviously, I think you'll look at the

SDF and things suggested the opposite. Then, I think in terms of the Tory party,

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