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There’s no money left (again) – Politics Weekly UK podcast

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The Government's Inexorable Decline

I'm not looking to be reelected as a conservative government. But if I was, purely from what is the right policy response? Yeah. The idea that more cuts and pain are coming down the line is not exactly news. Jeremy Hunt was quite explicit about that in the autumn statement last year. And we're starting to see signs of the full throated return of austerity if it ever went away. We had our spornomics and all those years of austerity. Then we got Theresa May and Boris Johnson and leveling up and bill back better. And now we're back to attacking your belts. Fiscal conservatism. If it hurts, it works. That's quite a journey. It would be

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