Energy price cap extended beyond April, windfall tax hiked to 35%, more money for schools and the NHS. Following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, our Deputy Political Editor David Bond deconstructs today’s medium-term budget announcement. Plus economist Fran Boait from Positive Money gives her reaction to the fiscal plans. In this episode:

• Jeremy Hunt’s tax rises explained
• How will the public react to more tax rises?
• Where has spending been cut?
• The ‘grim’ mood at Westminster
• Why the government should have focussed more on wages
• People feeling the impacts of the economy ‘from all directions’

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