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What’s so new in Boris’s ‘New Deal’?

15 min listen

The country is facing a post-pandemic recession that will leave millions unemployed and businesses bankrupted, so despite all the noise, is Boris’s ‘New Deal’ tackling the right problems? Our Economics Correspondent Kate Andrews joins the podcast today, and tells James Forsyth and Katy Balls why she thinks today’s announcement was little more than rehashing of the Conservatives’ pre-coronavirus manifesto.

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