107. Rachel Reeves: “We Don’t Need To Come Back And Ask For More”
Robert and Steph hear from the Chancellor about how she shaped her history-making budget, why she won’t be coming back for much more tax in future budgets, why the IFS is wrong to say she’ll have to t...
1 Nov 202432min
106. How Much Pain Is Rachel Reeves Inflicting?
Was the budget too harsh on small and medium businesses? How much pain will ‘working people’ feel from the tax changes? Is the OBR right that this mega budget won’t increase the size of the economy ov...
31 Okt 202437min
105. What You Need To Know To Judge The Budget
Robert and Steph assess Reeves’ ambitions for the most important budget since the 1980s, whether hypothecated taxes work, and how Russia, China and India are plotting the biggest attack on America's e...
28 Okt 202451min
104. Martin Lewis: Are we better off under Labour?
Martin Lewis, the MoneySavingExpert, joins Robert and Steph to crunch the numbers on how Labour got it wrong on the winter fuel payment, the scandal of councils’ vicious debt collection, how schools a...
23 Okt 202448min
103. It’s Time To Live With Higher Inflation
Steph and Robert talk to leading economist and investor Mohamed El-Erian about how growth is the only solution to our national debt burden, how he would re-write the fiscal rules to allow for much mor...
20 Okt 202445min
102. Anthony Scaramucci: The Truth About Trump’s Economic Madness
Former Trump staffer and The Rest Is Politics US host, Anthony Scaramucci joins Steph and Robert to explain why Trump’s planned interference with the Fed would wreck the US economy, why America’s bil...
16 Okt 202454min
101. How Rachel Reeves Will Re-Write Fiscal Rules
What options does Rachel Reeves have to allow for more investment, how can we be more productive as a service economy and does the NHS have a management problem? Steph and Robert answer your questions...
13 Okt 202436min
100. John McDonnell's Alternative Autumn Budget
Robert and Steph are joined by former Shadow Chancellor of The Exchequer, John McDonnell, to discuss what he thinks Rachel Reeves should and shouldn't do in the upcoming budget, how child poverty shou...
9 Okt 202441min
