About this episode

The episode discusses the recent PMQs where Kemi Badenoch criticizes the government's defence spending plans while Starmer defends his party's budget decisions.

Kemi Badenoch criticises the government for failing to publish its plan for defence spending, but Starmer says the Tories hollowed out the budget, and gets told off by the Speaker for failing to answer the question. Hugo unpacks PMQs with Patrick Maguire and the comedian Andrew Maxwell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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