{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/633f5611ecdb7d00125a3a8e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Kami-Kwasi Budget","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/1644921937661-83296c998938c08efb7ab6e9aa94a8a1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>It is hard to find a worse reaction to a British Budget than the one accorded&nbsp;Kwasi&nbsp;Kwarteng's&nbsp;\"special fiscal operation\". Neil and Jonathan talk to Howard Davies, former financial regulator and Treasury Mandarin about why it got such a huge raspberry, what Kwarteng can do now, and how his effort rates in the roll-call of past fiscal fails, including George Osborne's \"omnishambles\" and Denis Healey's emergency budget of 1974.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.</p><p>With Howard Davies.</p><p>Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p>","author_name":"Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins"}