About this episode

Bernard Hickey discusses the key points of the budget and its implications for the upcoming campaign.

Bernard dashes out of the lockup to patch in to the studio and talk through with Toby the top lines from today's budget, the rosy economic forecasts on which it is built, and the battle lines it draws for the campaign ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Toby

Guest: Bernard Hickey

Topics covered

• budget
• economic forecasts
• political campaign
• government
• news

Keywords

• budget
• economic forecasts
• politics
• government
• campaign

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