00:00The truth is we do have more, not just civil servants but public servants, people who operate
00:05in all these quangos which Labour have created even more under their watch. So if there's
00:10opportunities to save money for the taxpayer or put more money into the front line, that
00:14is something that directionally we have supported. But let's be clear why we're here. We're here
00:21because of the terrible choices that the Chancellor made in her original budget, raising an enormous
00:27amount of tax on business that has cooled the economy to the point that we're now in
00:32a per capita recession. Unemployment is rising, the government's borrowing rates are at a
00:3827 year high and all of that is coming home to roost. So first time round in her budget
00:44it was pensioners with the winter fuel allowance, farmers and businesses that paid the price.
00:49This time round it sounds like it's going to be civil servants and the disabled. When
00:54you are looking to make cuts to reduce the size of something you've actually properly
00:58got to say what you're going to stop doing rather than an arbitrary figure that's from
01:03a Chancellor who's on the back foot to try to fiddle the fiscal rules. Even on her own
01:08fiddled fiscal rules she's missed them, there's not enough headroom, she's going to have to
01:12come back for more, potentially this week, potentially again at another budget in the
01:17autumn if she's still in her role then.
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