00:00He's actually specifically said that he believes in state control.
00:05He hasn't said it metaphorically.
00:06He hasn't even dressed it up.
00:07And to be fair to him, it's the one thing he's been absolutely honest about.
00:11He actually believes in state control.
00:14Now that is extraordinary, because we know where that leads.
00:19You know, I don't know about you, but I saw this movie before.
00:21Admittedly, I saw it in black and white, and it was on my parents' TV, and it was 1970.
00:26But I know where it leads.
00:29That's not the road to growth.
00:32That's the road to ruin.
00:33And that's where he's taking us.
00:35The state has a role in lifting its foot off the throat of the market.
00:39That's how you empower freedom.
00:40That's how you get growth.
00:41That's how you get change.
00:43Because the truth is, what we've seen time and time and time again is that when labor
00:48comes in, debt goes up, unemployment goes up, and we have to come in to clean it up.
00:54I'm a Roman Catholic.
00:56That's me.
00:57And it determines a lot of how I think about life.
00:59Of course it does.
01:00But it defines how I must live my life, not how you must live yours.
01:04So I am always open to listening to debates about moral arguments from the perspective
01:09of the government as opposed to from the perspective of me as an individual, because we need to
01:14make sure what we're enabling in our country is, to use his other words, freedom.
01:18We need to be championing freedom.
01:20It is quite literally the building block of our society.
01:22If we don't have that, we have nothing.
01:25My job is also to make sure that we support the most vulnerable.
01:28And that's why I'm deeply, deeply, deeply uncomfortable with this assisted dying.
01:35I have seen too many reports, including from countries with jurisdictions that I respect
01:41very greatly, like Canada, where I've seen somebody, I've seen reports through military
01:47friends about somebody with PTSD who, instead of getting access to the care that he required,
01:55was being suggested that actually care was never going to be available and would never
01:58help and that actually he should choose an easier and, I quote, cheaper alternative.
02:04That is wrong and I will never support it.
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