{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/667063ff9e45e1a3116ea411?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How Reform UK found £50billion down the back of the sofa","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/1718640386638-ea0c4cd2391b70940b6311430736fb32.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Nigel Farage and Richard Tice have been playing good cop bad cop today in Merthyr Tydfil, not launching Reform UK's manifesto, but the party's \"contract\". The pitch contains some dramatic pledges and mathematical gymnastics.</p><p><br></p><p>Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor.</p><p><br></p><p>Sign up to the New Statesman's daily politics newsletter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://morningcall.substack.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Call</a></p><p><br></p><p>Submit a question for a future episode:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/2022/10/you-ask-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">You Ask Us</a></p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}