This is who they are.

You have a chancellor who is writing letters to other government departments and to quangos

and to regulators saying, give me your ideas for growth.

You've got the home Office doing nothing about the

huge inflow of fiscally negative migrants. You've got Angela Rainer introducing the employment

rights legislation, which adds at least £5 billion a year to business costs. You've got

Ed Miliband de-industrialising the economy with his energy policies, it doesn't really add up.

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest

this week, Nick Timothy. Nick, welcome to the show. Hello, it's great to see you. It's great to

have you back on. Last time we had you on this podcast was a few

years back and we were talking about your book at the time, remaking One Nation, conservatism in an

age of crisis. And also we talked about your role as special advisor to Treason May and you being a

big supporter of Brexit and all that good stuff we talked about.

A lot has changed since then. You are now a member of Parliament. You're the Conservative MP for

West Suffolk, where you've been MP since last year. So you're now in the belly of the lawmaking

beast. And I've got a lot to ask you about that. What's it like? What's, what do you

think, what's happening with politics, all that stuff? But I, it would be remiss of me not to ask

you today about the economy, because on the day we're talking, the spring statement has come out,

everyone's talking about it. Rachel Reeves is, I think, making a mess of things. But I want to

get your thoughts. What did you make of Rachel Reeves', I think, making a mess of things. But I want to get your thoughts. What did you make

of Rachel Reeves' spring statement? What are your hopes for economic recovery or growth under

this Labour government? Well, I mean, I'm quite worried about the state of the economy, to be

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