{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/657c9dc8eb643e00177fdc87/657c9dcf762a0e0016e69afa?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Making a statement","description":"<p>Well, what a difference 7 weeks makes. The Telegraph's <strong>Camilla Tominey</strong> and <strong>Gordon Rayner</strong> join <strong>Christopher Hope </strong>to give us the top lines of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement, somewhat different in tone to his predecessors less than two months ago.</p><p>Also on the podcast, <strong>David Jones</strong>, MP for Clwyd West and prominent ERG member, gives his withering assessment of Mr Hunt's tax hikes (5/10, must do better), urges the Chancellor to reconsider for the sake of the next election and balks at the use of the phrase \"unearned income\".</p><p>Plus Economic <strong>Jim O'Neill </strong>on why he thinks Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have made some canny choices and why as a country we need to accept that there's \"no such thing as a free lunch\".</p><p><br></p><p>For 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper |</p><p>Sign up to the Chopper's Politics newsletter: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politicsnewsletter|</p><p>Listen to Ukraine: the latest: www.playpodca.st/ukraine|</p><p><br></p><p>Email: chopperspolitics@telegraph.co.uk |</p>","author_name":"The Telegraph"}