Badenoch: Not true that Brexit reduced productivity

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Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch rejects Chancellor Rachel Reeves' claim that Brexit reduced productivity. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It is not true that the Brexit deal has reduced productivity.

00:04There are a lot of statistics about that.

00:06But what we saw with the Chancellor was a laundry list of excuses.

00:10It's everybody else's fault.

00:11She doesn't believe she's done anything wrong.

00:14She believes that she's holier than thou.

00:15What she should do is go and talk to businesses.

00:18Businesses have said that what is killing jobs in this country is her jobs tax.

00:23That rise in national insurance has been particularly harmful on the smallest businesses,

00:27those hiring the youngest people, those hiring part-timers, disabled workers.

00:33It's raised the cost of employment so that some businesses are simply closing down.

00:37That is creating a huge problem in productivity as well.

00:41She needs to be able to accept responsibility for her own mistakes.

00:44I accept responsibility when my party did things wrong.

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