00:00 I'm in Worthing today, just had a really good chat with a number of local residents, business
00:05 people, students just got their A-level results, a number of people struggling with younger
00:10 children and the one thing that they're all talking to me about is the cost of living
00:14 crisis and the human impact on them. And the words that struck me were they feel trapped,
00:20 they feel the government isn't helping them out and it's now having longer term impacts,
00:24 choking off opportunities, so businesses are finding it hard to see their future. Two young
00:31 women who got their A-level results last week now having to work before they go to university
00:35 because they can't afford it. And so from them we know what the message is to the government
00:41 which is you're absolutely throttling opportunity and aspiration and that's why I was able to
00:47 lay out for them Labour's positive plan about how we will turn this around with a mission
00:52 to grow the economy. But the dominant theme today is working people saying we feel trapped,
00:59 things being choked off and they know there's a massive mismatch between the rhetoric of
01:04 the government and the reality of their lives. What I've been saying today is that had we
01:09 had a cost of living crisis like this government has impacted on so many people, I wouldn't
01:15 have been able to afford to go to university. Now that's me reflecting on my own upbringing,
01:20 we didn't have a lot of money, but then had a discussion this morning with two young women
01:24 just got their A-level results last week, they should be, you know, A-level results
01:28 in one hand, their sort of life and opportunity in the other hand. They're now both taking
01:33 a year out because like me they feel that they can't afford to go straight to university,
01:39 so they're taking a year out to earn some extra money. And that's the longer term impact
01:43 now of this cost of living crisis, choking off, you know, young people and their aspirations
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