Mark Hennessy

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189 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Sep

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The Pat Kenny Show · Pat's Sunday Paper Review July 12th · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

and strikes.

So that's going to be a particularly difficult chapter for government to manage.

And this is all happening at a time when we are spending six out of every seven euro we get in corporation taxes, which can be reasonably regarded as windfall on current day-to-day spending.

And we're building that into future spending.

And one of these days, it's going to catch up with us.

Oh, undoubtedly.

I mean, and an awful lot of work is going to be done on this over the summer when perhaps other people aren't paying too much attention.

And, you know, we have all the usual issues, massive overruns in health.

There's a significant overrun in education.

There are endless demands from everybody, all of us believing that our particular demand is justified and realistic and all the rest of it.

And that has to be squared by ministers in a coalition.

And you have somebody in the form of Simon Harris who tends to be somewhat dictated by the news list of the day.

Yeah, I mean, you're always in trouble as a politician if you become the subject of mockery.

And he has definitely become subject.

And particularly against Binface, who has become somewhat of a beloved character in British by-elections over the last number of years.

Yeah, yeah.

There's history.

And this guy is no fool.

I mean, he's capable of messaging very cleverly.

And, you know, the constituency of Clacton, which I knew from my previous life in London, is a particularly deprived place.

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