Disappointing polling, a Canada trade deal on ice, and less money to spend on tax cuts all add up to a week of bad news for Rishi Sunak. Our reporter Joe Mayes brings us his exclusive story detailing the latest Treasury analysis ahead of the upcoming budget. Director of think-tank the British Foreign Policy Group, Evie Aspinall, talks us through the breakdown in trade talks between the UK and Canada.

Plus, we get insight on what a controversial bid for ownership of the Telegraph newspaper says about politics and media in the UK from Rasmus Nielsen, professor of political communication at the University of Oxford. Hosted by Stephen Carroll and James Woolcock.  

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