Heather Stewart is joined by Matt Whittaker, Ryan Shorthouse and Anushka Asthana to discuss this week’s budget. Also this week: Jon Henley assesses Angela Merkel’s legacy

Philip Hammond announced this week that austerity was coming to an end, and doubled down by unveiling the highest-spending budget for a decade.

Tax breaks for middle England, £20bn a year for the NHS and a Brexit double dividend for the economy … it all sounded too good to be true.

And perhaps it was. Joining Heather Stewart to discuss are Matt Whittaker, of the Resolution Foundation; Ryan Shorthouse, from the Conservative thinktank Bright Blue, and Anushka Asthana, of the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast.

Also this week: after Angela Merkel’s announcement that her fourth term as chancellor will be her last, Jon Henley assesses her legacy.

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