Jeremy Hunt takes ‘copy and paste’ swipe at Rachel Reeves during autumn statement

Jeremy Hunt takes 'copy and paste' swipe at Rachel ReevesParliament TV

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00:00 economic, to halve inflation, grow the economy and reduce debt. Today I can report to the

00:05 House that we are delivering on all three.

00:11 Let us start with inflation. The Shadow Chancellor did not mention it in her conference speech.

00:17 My conference speech was before hers, so all she had to do was a bit of copying and pasting,

00:22 which I have heard she is good at. But it speaks volumes that during the worst global

00:34 inflation shock for a generation, it did not even get a mention. Well, if controlling inflation

00:40 is not a priority for Labour, it is for us. When the Prime Minister and I took office,

00:48 inflation was 11.1%. Last week it fell to 4.6%. We promised to halve inflation and we

00:57 have halved it.

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