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Radio 4,20 May 2026,45 mins
Chancellor prepares to outline measures on cost of living
The World TonightAvailable for over a year
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce plans to curb the use of judicial reviews into clean energy projects of “critical national importance” in England and Wales. We speak to those for and against the measures. Also on the programme: the US government has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro on charges of conspiracy to kill US nationals over a fatal attack on two planes in 1996. And Mancunian music stalwart Mike Pickering speaks to us about the Beatles, M People and discovering Calvin Harris.
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