These are unprecedented times - a Chancellor in post for just four weeks and a Budget dominated by response to a pandemic. Christopher Hope invites the new Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, Mel Stride MP to the Red Lion to make sense of the situation. Plus, economist Gerard Lyons explains the true cost of Covid-19 on the economy and former adviser to Philip Hammond, Poppy Trowbridge weighs in on Rishi Sunak’s performance, and tells us why the most difficult thing about budget day isn’t necessarily standing up in the Commons…

Gerard Lyons - Rishi Sunak's first Budget will surely stand the test of time: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/11/rishi-sunaks-first-budget-will-surely-stand-test-time/ |

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