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Mar 2023
34m 43s

Chorley's Budget Airline

THE TIMES
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Ahead of this week's budget Matt jets around the G7 to speak to a raft of international correspondents who lay out the economic problems they're facing, and the policy solutions they're implementing. The Times' Economics Editor Mehreen Khan rounds things off by previewing what's to come in Jeremy Hunt's statement on Wednesday.


Plus columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on the resolution of the Gary Lineker saga, the loss of alcopops from the inflation shopping basket and Mark Drakeford's moving speech following the sudden death of his wife.


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