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Hello and welcome to the Safely Ridge on Sunday podcast. Today I guest included the Chancellor

Jeremy Hunt ahead of his all-important autumn statement. Plus, we talked to the former

leveling up secretary and Ms. Trust supporter, Simon Cook.

Welcome to the podcast. It's a bit different today because Scott Beasley is not here, but I'm

pleased to say that we have a new podcaster with us. We're not a new podcast. It's someone who's

very familiar to podcasting with their own podcast, new to this podcast, I should say. Christopher Hope,

Associate Editor for Politics at the Daily Telegraph and host of Chopper's Politics. Hi, Sophie.

Good to have you here. Good to be here. It's a good week to be talking politics. It's a big

week, isn't it, with everything that's to come? Just a huge week. Of course, we heard Jeremy Hunt on your

program. I mean, and it's all about Thursday. And where does that swing on whereometer go on tax and spend?

And a lot of conservatives who I speak to, the Telegraph speak to, are worried he's going

to go too much in favour of tax increases and not in spending cuts.

And we'll come onto that in what you discussed with Simon Clark.

But that's the big debate he's got. Not

easy because politics is about decisions. Nothing is straightforward. It's about weighing

off different genders, different people. And it's so important. I mean, one area appears

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