Ex-Tory minister refuses to admit country faced recession under Conservatives

Ex-Tory minister refuses to admit country faced recession under ConservativesSky News

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00:00Well, we're not in recession, we can come to the economy and we'll all live.

00:02I didn't say recession, but there is no growth. There's no growth in the economy at the moment.

00:05Nor was there for most of the last...

00:08Well, we had the fastest growing economy in the G7 when the government took over.

00:13For a six-month period, following a six-month period where you were in recession.

00:16Yeah, and we had about the highest level of employment,

00:19we had very low levels of unemployment.

00:20Unemployment's hardly moved since they've come to bat. We can come to that in a moment.

00:24Well, we were talking about our record, not what's happened since.

00:27What's happened since is growth has been...

00:29Was there a recession under the last Rishi Sunak government? Is there a recession now?

00:33The important thing is, we went through a cost of living crisis...

00:35Answer me that question. Did you have a recession? Is there a recession now?

00:38So, look, what we're talking about is the general level of growth.

00:42Was there a recession under...

00:43On the issue of growth.

00:44Sorry, was there a recession under Rishi Sunak?

00:47Has there been a recession under this government?

00:48So, what matters, Wolf, is that...

00:50The non-answer speaks volumes.

00:53No, no, is that when we, look, when we had the inflation...

00:59You