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Steve Richards and guests discuss the week's events at Westminster, including Rishi Sunak's Budget statement, and discuss the rift between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond.

Steve Richards looks back over the week in Westminster - including the Chancellor's Budget Statement. He discusses its likely impact on Conservative seats in the north of England with MP Miriam Cates and former Tory minister, Alistair Burt. He also examines Labour's policy on tax with former Cabinet minister Lord Blunkett and Jeremy Corbyn's former senior policy adviser, Andrew Fisher. And he reflects on the feud between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond with the political biographer John Campbell and the ±«Óãtv's special correspondent, James Naughtie.

Producer: Libby Jukes

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Sat 6 Mar 2021 11:00
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