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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Spectators daily politics podcast.

I'm Isabella Harman and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Bulls.

Well, Westminster is now digesting Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement.

James, just tell us how it's gone down.

So, at the moment, I think everything seems fairly calm.

It's not the drama that we had after the trust-quarting statement.

And that was really quite a lot of drama.

Yes. I mean, the pound is down a bit, guilty of the upper bit.

But this is going to whip in, they're going to realm of the expected.

I think Tory MPs are still chewing through what to think about it.

I think they sat there very quietly during the statement.

In part, because the news is just grim.

But I mean, the big question is, do they accept some of the tax rises,

and there are lots to be made of how high the tax burden is going, how do those go down,

and then also the kind of the politics of this, which is, I mean,

really enough is in terms of the country, I think the tax,

it's not going to be popular, but I think that people will kind of accept it,

given the bits of spending that are being protected.

And I mean, the biggest contrast with the mini budget is on the 45-P rate,

which Liz Trasson-Huyes-Quarting tried to abolish.

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