00:00Well, I was astonished because I wondered what former Prime Ministers like Tony Blair
00:05or Gordon Brown or David Cameron or Theresa May would think. They had shown great commitment
00:11to this because they understood why it was so important to Britain's security and stability
00:15to have this spending on development. And I thought it was pretty shameful, actually.
00:20Well, I think there's a range of opportunities to the Chancellor putting together a budget.
00:25This was a very easy one to do, but it was the wrong one to do. And there are many other
00:30ways in which you can raise that money. One of them would be the suggestion of Jeremy
00:35Hunt when he was Chancellor, which was to go back to the same number of people of working
00:40age drawing welfare that we had before Covid. And if you did that, you would save something
00:45like £40bn on welfare spending, as well as getting a lot of people who ought to be in
00:50work and many of them want to be in work back in work.
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