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Radio 4,01 Nov 2026,46 mins

Budget fallout and should we get closer to the EU?

Westminster Hour

Available for 29 days

Ben Wright is joined by Labour MP and chair of the Treasury Select Committee, Dame Meg Hillier; Conservative peer and former Cabinet minister, Mark Harper; and the Liberal Democrat frontbencher Bobby Dean. They discuss the reaction to the Budget and the Home Secretary's expected announcement on changing immigration rules. Jessica Elgot - deputy political editor of the Guardian - brings her expert insight and analysis. And Ben reports from Stoke-on-Trent on how people there and the local MP feel about re-opening the Brexit debate.

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