00:00Well, look, I think what the Prime Minister has said is that whatever people think of,
00:05say, the Thatcher government politically, it had determination, it had resolve, much like
00:09Conservatives recognise the post-war Labour government had that kind of determination and
00:14resolve. And what the Prime Minister has said is that is what we need right now. We don't need
00:17half measures. We don't need things announced and not delivered upon. We don't need the difficult
00:21issues fudging, as I feel they were, frankly, for the last decade and a half. We've got to
00:26confront and say we will deliver growth, we'll do the difficult things to do that, we'll accept
00:32the trade-offs of doing that. And I, for one, am excited by that. I think there's huge opportunity
00:38in the UK. I think we also need to show people that government can deliver, whether that's on
00:42housing, transport, a whole range of things. I think people are losing faith across the world
00:47with democratic government as a way to do that. We can address the things that matter to them,
00:52and that is what this speech is about today. Well, first of all, we recognise as a government
00:57we've had to make some difficult decisions. That's just the reality of taking over from
01:01a difficult position. But we shouldn't forget that inflation is down, wages are up, business
01:06investment is at a record 19-year high, and we've had the growth projections for the UK revised
01:12upwards. But we want more. We'll only be satisfied when people feel in their pockets that they are
01:18better off, that their real disposable income has increased. And yes, some of the decisions today
01:24are about longer-term infrastructure projects. We are speeding that process up. But what you can do
01:29by getting across what we've tried to communicate today is that we are a government that's going to
01:33make a difference, we're going to do the difficult things, we'll generate optimism, excitement from
01:38that, and that in turn obviously feeds through to business confidence, to long-term investment,
01:42and to higher growth and better wages for people. Well, I think, look, when you have to make a
01:46difficult decision to keep the public safe, that is always the right decision. That should always come
01:53first. I'm not aware that the burdens of tackling the Excel bully problem are to a degree that
01:59requires a significant degree of additional national intervention around that, but I'm sure
02:05the Home Office, the Home Secretary, is monitoring that very closely and working with Chief Constables
02:09to make sure we're doing what is necessary around that. I mean, at the end of the day, it's got to be
02:14about keeping the public safe. That's got to come first before anything else.
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