Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me, Alan Tolhurst.

After the most consequential budget in more than a decade, signalling a shift back to a tax and spend

economy, with the highest increase in taxes, it's Norman LeMont in 1993, to help fund public

services, the big question is will it help Rachel

Reeves and Kirstama reach their goal of delivering economic growth back to the UK?

Will me to discuss all that and much more? I'm delighted to be joined by Chris Curtis, Labour MP

and Vice Chair of the Labour Growth Group. Mel Stride, former Treasury Minister and ex-Chair

of the Treasury Select Committee, as well as two top think-tank

economists, Isabel Stockton, senior research economists at the Institute of Fiscal Studies,

and James Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation. And later on, you'll also hear

my chat with Lord John Moynihan, Conservative peer and author of the new book, Return to Growth.

So I start with you, Chris.

A first labour budget since March 2010.

Were you stomping your feet and waving your order paper in the air after the

Chancellor finished her speech?

I was.

I was indeed, yes.

I did do a couple of heckles.

It was my first time.

I read a couple of heckles when the former prime minister was speaking in the Commons as well.

You shouldn't admit to that.

The speaker's listening to this.

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