00:00Look, can we start talking about the Chancellor, because she's on the front page of all of the newspapers this morning.
00:05Obviously, lots of concern for her after her being in tears at PMQs yesterday. Is she OK this morning?
00:15She is. Look, she's not just my colleague, she's my friend.
00:18And I think there are lots of people who are watching who will think about some of our own experiences from time to time,
00:25where we've had things going on in our lives outside of work that sometimes you bring to work with you.
00:30And that yesterday was one of those occasions. But unlike most people, when you're on the front line in politics,
00:38you are both at work and on camera. And that's what we saw yesterday.
00:44But look, she's a tough character. She will bounce back.
00:48And we've seen in Rachel's leadership over the last year, a Chancellor that's got interest rates falling four times,
00:56wages finally rising higher than the cost of living.
01:00She's gripped the public finances, dealt with the mess that we inherited,
01:05and she's got the economy moving in the right direction.
01:08So, you know, she's she's she's a human being, but she's also a tough cookie as our Chancellor.
01:15And we'll be back to work, as she was yesterday afternoon, getting on with the job.
01:20Well, a lot of people would disagree with those assessments, of course,
01:23about the economy moving in the right direction.
01:26But actually, politics aside, I know a lot of people will want to jump on the politics of this.
01:32Actually, I do think it's much more important to look at the human being here,
01:36because whatever's going on that caused this, the job is incredibly stressful,
01:42particularly at the moment.
01:43And is that something she I mean, would it even be right for her to continue or does she need a break?
01:53No, of course, of course, it's right for her to continue.
01:55And just on the on the toughness of the job, whether it's the prime minister, the chancellor,
02:01any of the rest of us in government, these are tough jobs.
02:04They're demanding jobs.
02:05But also, and I think I speak for the entire cabinet when I say this, the last 12 months certainly been the best year of my professional life,
02:14because in government, you get to wake up in the morning saying, what are we doing today?
02:18In opposition, you wake up every morning thinking, what are we going to say today?
02:22And I know which one I prefer.
02:24And it is thanks to the choices people made at the last election that we get to come into work every day gripping the challenges facing our country.
02:32And that's why we've been able to, you know, for example, cut NHS waiting lists, taking them down by a quarter of a million.
02:40The two million more appointments that we promised to deliver in our first year, we've more than doubled that.
02:45I said within weeks of coming to office that we would employ a thousand more GPs onto the front line.
02:51Latest figures show actually we're almost double that.
02:54So, you know, tough jobs, sure, but it's what we signed up for.
02:59And we love doing this.
03:00We love serving our country.
03:01We want to make a difference.
03:02We want to make the change that people voted for.
03:04And that's what all of us get up doing every single day on behalf of the country.
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