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Oct 2021
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The shadow chancellor’s take on the Budget

The fallout from the Budget and spending review continues, as the IFS today says millions of people will be worse off by 2022. The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves joins Adam and Chris to explain how Labour would do things differently.

And ahead of the UN Climate Change conference, COP26, which kicks off on Sunday, Newscast has enlisted students from Vyners School in west London to ask some questions about the climate crisis. Isabella O’Dowd, the head of climate change at WWF, helps us answer them.

Today’s episode of Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj and Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editors is Emma Close and Alison Gee. Jonathan Aspinwall is the editor.

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