00:00Yes, the government has certainly got us into the mess we're in. They inherited an
00:04economy that was growing where most of the metrics are going in the right
00:06direction. Today they're almost all in the red, flashing red in many cases when
00:11it comes to things like rising unemployment. So they've dug this hole,
00:15they need to get us out of it and it's actions not words that are going to
00:19count. You know, you can make as many speeches about long-term growth as you
00:23want, you can expand airports in the future, that is good, but right now the
00:27high street is bleeding out. Every day we're hearing difficulties of retailers,
00:31pubs, hospitality businesses and a lot of that stems from Labour's budget, the
00:36choices they made, that big jobs tax, 25 billion jobs tax coming out of the
00:41private sector and the red tape. They talk about cutting growth, cutting a red
00:46tape and lower regulation, but actually day by day in Parliament they're adding to
00:51the burden of red tape. Yeah, look I'm all in on expanding Heathrow. The UK
00:55needs a proper global hub airport, it's a competitive world, we depend on trade,
01:00our services rely on that across the Atlantic and to Asia, but of course that
01:06won't be on stream for a very long period of time. So it's good and if the
01:09government is serious about pushing back on judicial review, the idea that an
01:14elected politician makes a decision and then lawyers spend years campaigning
01:19against it when they were never elected. If the government's serious about that,
01:22that is good, but we also need action here and now this week to help hard
01:28pressed businesses on our high street. Well these things are challenging and
01:32one of the challenges we had was that the Labour government and the House of
01:36Lords opposed those very reforms on judicial review, those very reforms on
01:41some of the environmental regulations that we were proposing to sweep away to
01:47get Britain building. So I regret that, I regret that we weren't bolder, but the
01:51reality is that at that point in time it was Labour and the unelected House of
01:55Lords that was frustrating the will of the democratic government. Look, with the
01:59greatest will in the world, I don't think when a criminal suspect, you know, hacks
02:04three young children to death and injures many more, the issue is exactly
02:10what adjectives we use. That is clearly a crime, the full resources of the law
02:14should be applied to that, but what we don't need is to deflect police
02:18resources by ever more adventurous interpretation as what is and isn't
02:23extremist words, it's the actions that matter.
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