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A generational Budget

Season 1, Ep. 971

The dust on Rachel Reeves’s plans for the British economy is beginning to settle. Does her Budget leave young people better or worse off?  


Writer: Barney Macintyre


Producer: Patricia Clarke


Host: Tomini Babs


Episode photography: Jon Jones


Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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