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Welcome to Navaralive. I'm Michael Walker. The Natural Order has been restored. It's Friday night,

and I'm joined by Aaron Bustani. Aaron, it's been way too long. Yeah, the natural order is back,

Michael. It's like the restoration, you know. It's like when they got rid of the Commonwealth

and Charles II was back. I wasn't a fan, Michael, but, you know, the experiment was over, so to say.

And that experiment of us having a Friday show without both you and me, that's behind us.

Let's look forward.

The monarchy has returned.

We don't speak about ourselves like that.

That's strange. There were people in the comments. I did a few, as you know, a few sort of long interviews with economists on the Friday evenings. I was saying, why have you benched Aaron Bastar? We want to see Aaron Bastarney. Well, obviously the reason I booked those economists on those Fridays is because Aaron had already booked them off. You see, you've got the order wrong. We have a great show lined up for you today.

We are going to be talking for actually quite a lot about the economy.

Rachel Reeves has her long-awaited budget next week.

We'll be discussing what she might do in some of the big debates raving on the left and elsewhere.

I've also got an interview with Jayati Ghosh, co-author of the recent

G20 Inequality Report. Nathan Gill, the former leader of reform in Wales, has also been sentenced

to 10 years in prison for accepting Russian bribes. I should be joined live by Carol Kudwalader.

We might end by talking about your party. Some of their

rows are continuing to rage on. If you'd like to support our work, of course, as ever,

you can sign up at Navaramedia.com forward slash support. Let's go straight into our next story.

After weeks and months of speculation, we are in the final stretch before

Rachel Reeves's long-awaited budget, and as the nation waits to find out who'll have to pay

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