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Show 318 - *Philip Hammond - LIVE*

The Political Party

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Boris Johnson and Theresa May: A Comparison

I think Boris became over obsessed with the adulation of being the leader in a crisis. I'm sure he saw this as his Churchill moment, and he couldn't put it down. The inflation that we're facing started before Putin got moving. And if you ask somebody doing first year GCSE economics, what happens when you borrow 600 billion pounds and pour it into an economy? That's what's going to happen. It all started during Covid. But why our politicians didn't recognise it, and apparently even our central banks didn’t recognise it, is a continuing mystery to me.

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