00:00I think what we're going to see today are enormous tax increases that will affect businesses
00:03and will affect, by extension, working people. We've seen organisations like the CBI, the
00:08Confederation of British Industry, today warning that this will destroy jobs and deter investment.
00:13But what this also represents is a massive broken promise because Labour fought the general
00:17election just a few months ago saying that their plans did not require any tax rises
00:23beyond those set out in their manifesto. And it now turns out that is completely untrue.
00:28What they did is they lied to the British public in order to get elected and we're going
00:31to see those lies exposed in the budget today. When the last Conservative government left
00:37office, the NHS had record levels of spending. So the challenges with the NHS aren't to do
00:42with any lack of money because it, as I say, had a record funding settlement. And in police,
00:47the area that I was responsible for in government, you know, the police had a record funding
00:50settlement for the current financial year and we now have more police officers than
00:55any time in our country's history. So I don't accept that the previous government were underfunding
01:00public services. What we now need to see is reform to make those public services operate
01:05more efficiently. But Labour do not seem to be taking on that challenge. Instead, they're
01:09just putting everybody's taxes up and handing that money away in inflation-busting pay rises
01:14for their union bosses.
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