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Can this Budget grow the economy?

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After the most consequential Budget in more than a decade, Labour MP Chris Curtis, vice-chair of the Labour Growth Group, Mel Stride, former Treasury minister and ex-chair of the Treasury Select Committee, join host Alain Tolhurst and two top think tank economists; Isabel Stockton, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and James Smith, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, to discuss if it will help Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer reach their goal of delivering economic growth back to the UK. There's also an
with Lord Jon Moynihan, Conservative peer and author of the new book ‘Return to Growth’, about whether the Chancellor is on the right track or not.

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Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot