Lagan Valley MP Sorcha Eastwood speaks out on Spring Statement

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00:00Hi everyone, so really busy day in Parliament today. Obviously there was a

00:03spring statement. Unfortunately it's not very good news. We know that Northern

00:08Ireland is going to bear the brunt of these punitive cuts and I just can't

00:12understand why the government are doing this. They seem to have picked fights

00:15with everybody and now they're doubling down. The reason I'm annoyed is because

00:20there are actually solutions on the table that they could take. They could

00:24review their fiscal rules. They could also tax wealth with billionaires and

00:29big tech. But unfortunately they seem to be choosing to punch down on the

00:34vulnerable small businesses, farmers, pensioners, you name it. So all in all a

00:40very disappointing day again. But we do whatever we can.