{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65804e0f1585de00125ded2d/6abd4bbaaa79bbde56d395df?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Burnham’s economics of empty promises","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65804e0f1585de00125ded2d/1790791090272-c0b18e3b-b12c-4b5d-b3cb-3bd373ca8ea5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>You can watch this episode in full on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZeBZTYZaSTE</p><p><br></p><p>Your Planet Normal co-pilots return to a tsunami of news, promises from Labour conference and Andy Burnham to ease the nations finances and is the Home Secretary watering down her own migration policies?</p><p><br></p><p>Allison takes aim at the PM’s pledges, calling them nothing but empty words and laying blame so far in the past you’d be forgiven for not realising we have had successive failures from Government since the 70s.</p><p><br></p><p>Liam delves into the costing of the social care promises and how scrapping the triple lock, in favour of a double lock, will work in reality.</p><p>Stowing away is former Home Secretary Suella Braverman who tells your co pilots about her life, politics and career in her new book, ‘Patriot: Empire, betrayal, and hope’.</p><p><br></p><p>Highlights</p><ul><li>Planet Normal: Burnham’s false hope economics</li><li>Social care plans fall flat</li><li>Shabana Mahmood waters down immigration plans</li><li>Triple lock scrapped, but will it balance any books</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day&#39;s biggest stories, every morning. <u><a href=\"http://telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor</a></u> |</p><p>Buy Suella’s book: <u><a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/patriot/suella-braverman/9781918944044\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.waterstones.com/book/patriot/suella-braverman/9781918944044</a></u> |</p><p>Buy your ticket for the Battle of Ideas: <u><a href=\"https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/battle-of-ideas-festival-tickets-2026/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/battle-of-ideas-festival-tickets-2026/</a></u> |</p><p>Watch ‘Stirling Series | The SAS: The Past, Present and Future of UK Special Forces’: <u><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELisq0gwlqY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELisq0gwlqY</a></u> |</p><p>Read Allison ‘Suella Braverman: My immigrant family was too proud for benefits’: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/04/suella-braverman-my-father-was-too-proud-to-go-on-the-dole/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/04/suella-braverman-my-father-was-too-proud-to-go-on-the-dole/</a></u> |</p><p>Read Allison ‘Is Richard E Grant a Machiavellian schemer or a giddy fool?’: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/02/richard-e-grant-celebrity-traitors-schemer-or-fool/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/02/richard-e-grant-celebrity-traitors-schemer-or-fool/</a></u> |</p><p>Read Allison ‘Now more than ever, we must stand up for the SAS’: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/29/stand-up-for-sas/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/29/stand-up-for-sas/</a></u> |</p><p>Read Allison ‘Strictly won’t survive if it carries on selling out for the youth audience’: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/26/allison-pearson-strictly-youth-pandering/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/26/allison-pearson-strictly-youth-pandering/</a></u> |</p><p>Read more from Allison: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/</a></u> |</p><p>Read Liam ‘Trump’s diesel ban would be a disaster – for Britain and the White House’’: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/27/trumps-diesel-ban-disaster-britain-white-house/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/27/trumps-diesel-ban-disaster-britain-white-house/</a></u> |</p><p>Read more from Liam: <u><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/</a></u> |</p><p>Read Liam’s Substack: <u><a href=\"https://liamhalligan.substack.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://liamhalligan.substack.com/</a></u> |</p><p>Need help subscribing or reviewing? 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