westminsters s brains beyond government have been crunching through its, and they ve concluded what many a newscaster will know, it s the kind of the bleeding obvious, really. they present that times are really tough for people that wages and living standards and housing income are squeezed and will be for while. the tax burden for the highest it has been for a while and will be for a while as well. as we were discussing on the last edition of the podcast. a lot of the budget was quite nerdy and in the weeds. there was a discussion around childcare in england that we talked about. the arguments about pensions for very well. doctors and others to train and encourage them to work and not retire and spend time in the golf course. since then, the political discussion has moved on a bit with the announcement we were talking about with tiktok. what is hope for within government and some of the union resolution to some of the nhs disputes and strikes we ve seen in the last few month
as chancellor resisted that, said it was the wrong policy. eventually they came in with an energy profits levy. but it had so many holes in it it meant that shell didn t pay a penny of that energy profits levy last year. so i said that labour would fix the holes in that, get rid of those loopholes and we believed it could raise another £10 billion and we would use that to help people said the cost of living. the government, i welcome the fact that the government said yesterday they will freeze gas and electricity bills for a further three months, but instead of funding that through tax receipts or through borrowing, they could have funded it by asking the energy giants, who are making windfalls of war to pay more. so that is a different choice that labour would make compared with the conservatives.