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It’s Budget week, which means big announcements, big spending and big celebrations for Allison Pearson, who arrives for our recording with a big surprise for co-host Liam Halligan: she’s only gone and won an award.

Our co-pilot may have a trophy, but she’s got more than a few questions for our resident economist, co-pilot Halligan who is on hand to explain why he thinks Chancellor Rishi Sunak might have earned himself the nickname ’Risky Rishi’ after delivering his third Budget. But do the sums really add up?

Also joining our co-pilots is Telegraph columnist Ben Wright, who tells Planet Normal why he felt as if he were watching a Labour chancellor instead of a Conservative one.

And did we mention Allison won an award?

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