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Reality Check – the new podcast from The Spectator – cuts through the spin and explains the numbers behind the noise. In each episode, The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons and in-the-know guests will make a data-driven case on a story hogging the headlines.

30 Oct 2025
14 mins

The rich are leaving Britain – and making you poorer

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Arthur Laffer: Britain is taxing itself to death

Arthur Laffer, the man who taught Reagan to cut taxes, tells Michael why Britain’s economy is ‘disappearing’, why the Bank of England shouldn’t exist, and why he still believes low taxes – and a little optimism – can send Britain ‘to the moon and the stars.’

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