Adam Fleming

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16,139 appearances 135 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

Adam Fleming’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · The Week: Is The Economic Pain Still To Come? · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

Um because yeah, just create creating an atmosphere with words has an voice-verified

Well, I was gonna say let's listen to Andy Burnham, who was on a visit earlier this week, and gave one of his first actual public comments about how the budget is looking. voice-verified

English, but I think that's called an oxymoron, voice-verified

and by savings rate you mean yeah, literally the amount that people save which they could be spending voice-verified

Faisal that the numbers on the special you can get the numbers to add up with the fiscal rules by actually not doing anything that dramatically the day after the budget is a good thing? voice-verified

No, no, no. voice-verified

You'd have to do a voice-verified

so that's basically the gap between what their plans are and where the fiscal rules would maximize. voice-verified

Where the fiscal rules would maximize. voice-verified

If they voice-verified

And Chris, on that point about what Andy Burnham's instincts are, well, we got an example of that um at his Prime Minister's questions with Kemi Baydenock last week, where they were arguing about do you cut housing benefit now so you can pay for increased defence spending. voice-verified

And Andy Burnham said no, you invest in more council housing so that in future your housing benefit bill is lower, and that's how you pay for defence. voice-verified

So it seems that his instinct at the moment is to do things in the longer voice-verified

Big reforms now. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

It would save him some money. voice-verified

But it's also just so hard to work out what's actually going on because if you were scrolling social media on Tuesday night, it was all doom and gloom. voice-verified

This Saudi pipeline, which is the way of getting around the Strait of Hormuz to pump the oil out westwards, is being blown up. voice-verified

There's gonna be no oil sent to Europe until Christmas. voice-verified

What an economic disaster. voice-verified

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