Austerity 2.0
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt look for spending cuts to help balance the books, Matt Chorley talks to key figures from the first round of austerity including former health secretary Lord Lansley and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham. How do they think the government and Labour should approach it a second time around?
Plus columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss the migrant crisis, Suella Braverman's survival and hating Halloween.
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| 0:58.4 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chauley. Back from my holidays, |
| 1:03.1 | I managed to get a few days away in the Dominican Republic because apparently the last guy |
| 1:06.1 | who put in suddenly left in the middle of his holidays, I don't know what that was all about. |
| 1:09.6 | Anyway, I'm back and straight back into the thick of it today. We're looking at austerity 2.0. |
| 1:16.8 | The morning at Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, were going through line-by-line |
| 1:22.9 | what's in the spreadsheet, try to find billions of billions of pounds, either through the spending |
| 1:26.6 | cuts or tax-wise. We've got crunch numbers and all of that. We've got a cracking line-up. You'll |
| 1:30.0 | be able to hear from Stephen Swinford, Pitco at the Times, David Smith, brilliant economics |
| 1:35.1 | out of the Sunday times and must read on a Sunday. Plus, Andrew Lansley, health secretary during |
| 1:40.8 | the first round of austerity, Andy Burnham, he was in the treasury when the crash happened back in 2008, |
| 1:47.2 | Gillian Pryor on public attitudes, and would dig into the archives as well for a little bit of |
| 1:52.2 | George Osborne too. So, all that is coming up in just a moment and we've got the Columnist |
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