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The Budget: Will the rich get richer?

The Budget: Will the rich get richer?

The News Agents · Global

March 15, 202336m 37s

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Show Notes

Today's bombshell rabbit (to mix a metaphor) was the Chancellor's promise to abolish the lifetime allowance on pensions.

If you're super-rich it's time to crack open the champagne. If you're working age and well-paid, it might keep you in your job longer - at least that's the aim- but this is against a backdrop where household disposable income is falling at its fastest rate since the 1950s.

We talk childcare, taxation, potholes, and Brexit beer.

Later, we revisit the question of BBC impartiality after leaked emails show an editor succumbing to pressure from Boris Johnson's Number 10 during the pandemic.

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