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This week on the Newscast podcast, we've been discussing the Prime Minister's defence of the Chancellor over the budget.

I was very proud to lead this party at the Budget last week, where the Chancellor set out that we would protect the nhs, which we've done in the Budget, create the conditions for economic stability, not repeating the state mistake of austerity and bearing down on the cost of living.

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I guess it takes two to tango, is the point.

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But don't do that until you've watched some of the best friends of the Newscast podcast discussing some of the biggest stories of the week.

Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and Chris in the studio and Vicky in the studio.

And a newcomer to newscast but not to broadcasting, it's Kay Barley.

Does it feel like being like by Behind Enemy Lines?

He's very friendly and lovely, but it's certainly.

I don't know where the fridge is for the milk, all that sort of stuff.

So I did 25 hour long live newscast of children in need a couple of weeks ago and it made me think about your 1 million minutes, because that's how many live broadcast minutes you have.

That's like nearly two years on air solo than anyone else in the world.

And now that you're not doing it every day, I mean, obviously you still care about the news, you still want to talk about the news, but has it given you a different perspective on like, what.

What we all talk about every day, minute by minute?

I still sort of the first thing I do when I wake up is look at all the front pages that I put on the Today program.

Then I make a cup of tea, then I put on other shows and I'm just sort of, you know, easing myself up.

I hope that maybe this time next year I won't be doing that, but at the moment that's where I am.

And also I joked about it being enemy territory, but actually there is rivalry between the different news organizations.

But at Westminster it's one big gang, actually.

I often say when I'm talking to, say, Beth Rigby from Sky or Robert Peterson from itv that of course we're competitive because journalists are competitive.

You want to get to a story first or an interview first or whatever might be, but you can also be friends.

Okay, so you've done your 1 million minutes of broadcasting, Chris.

It feels like we've been talking about the budget for about 1 million minutes already.

But this week, on Monday, Keir Starmer did a speech where it felt like he just wanted to draw a line under all the stuff about whether Rachel Reeves had been telling the whole truth about the nation's finances and he wanted to just double down on the decisions that they'd made in the budget and why they were a good thing.

Yeah, he wanted to move on from the specifics of the budget argument whilst doubling down on the bits that he wanted to talk up.

I mean, not least the, the scrapping of the two child cap and talking about how that, the pride that he felt in, in doing that and then sketching out some of the medium term stuff, albeit in pretty broad terms, around wider change in the benefit system, the stuff he had to say about regulation, the idea that it shouldn't be the left shouldn't just be seen as a, as a part of the political spectrum that reveres regulation, that sometimes gold plating, as it put it, can get in the way of, of economic growth.

And then that little nod and we've seen a bit of it.

Henry Zephman's got an interesting piece on the BBC News app about around the little nods that we're getting from Labour folk at the moment about the European Union, about our relationship with the European Union and whether it can be as they would see it warmed up a bit, a bit more.

But the blizzard of questions that he got afterwards from me and from Beth and from Robert and from others were not entirely, but was significantly on the whole question of the, of the budget process, which I think even, even those who are desperate to see Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves succeed would acknowledge was perhaps not as smooth as they would have liked it.

Distract from this this week from what they would have much rather been focusing on not least because as Vicki would have picked up on Politics Live, you know a lot of labor mps really like quite a lot of what was in there.

It's really striking that every single one that's been on the program this week and since the budget has been much happier.

Of course they came on before and they talked about various things that they weren't happy with and they all particularly the 2 child benefit cap being lifted.

It's given them something that they can go back to their constituencies and when they knock on a door they've got something that they can say to people and the cost of L stuff.

So in terms of the 150 quid off your energy bill next year, I think what's you can tell that Kia Starmey is a bit slightly irritated and surprised that you know people.

Didn't, didn't she put in lots of money at one point to bring down people's energy bills?

And then they said we've literally just spent billions and no one's mentioned it.

I think they want to make sure they can get that message across and they're hoping in time as you say that the preamble to the budget is slightly lost and what will matter to people more in the end will be okay.

Are, am I starting to see things improving?

The little note from the almost history books around that was that they were in the process, weren't they the Liz Trust government of announcing that on the day that the Queen died.

And so the announcement was rather lost inevitably and then it sort of didn't really register and then then the sort of implosion of that government kicked in and actually this government that was in very keen to project a sort of small state low tax vision had actually done this colossal intervention.

Surprisingly Kay, you've watched a lot of budget preparations.

What was your take on the build up to this one?

Because it's sort of gone down as like the most chaotic leaked about slash whatever in history.

I try and always come at it from the public's perspective and I don't think the public actually care as long as they're not they obviously they weren't lied to but I think she was certainly economical with the actuality and I think who famously said that?

I'VE seen that phrase used a lot this week.

So don't lie to the public because they're not stupid.

And that's basically what I think happened.

It was a bit like doing half a football result, you know, Manchester United too.

Okay, but what about the other, you know, the tax increases which brought in more money as well.

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