00:00as Liz Truss's government found to their cost.
00:05And amidst all of this, we have a Chancellor who is absolutely hopelessly out of her depth,
00:11out of her depth to a level that, frankly, it's embarrassing.
00:14It was Lee Anderson that called her Rachel from accounts during PMQs some time ago,
00:21and that really stuck, although Lee now says he feels sorry for her on a human level.
00:25And actually, I think we can all understand that.
00:28So what we're going to get is a budget that will be drafted by left-wing think tanks,
00:33a budget that will be drafted by people who've never run a business,
00:38who've never had a proper job in their lives, and that's the level of disconnect that exists.
00:46Now, I do think we're setting the pace on a number of things.
00:50I thought, despite her protestations, I thought a lot of what Shubhamah Mahmood said,
00:55yes, that he was driven directly by fear that Labour are losing votes, particularly in the Red Wall, to reform.
01:03And, rhetorically, we would agree with a lot of what the Home Secretary said.
01:09Indeed, there are some of us that thought it might just be a pitch.
01:13Maybe that's our next defector.
01:14I'm not sure if her backbenchers vote against her.
01:17That could become a bigger likelihood.
01:21There was no doubt, as I say, that we led the agenda on that,
01:26that illegal migration is making the country very, very angry,
01:31and she said it's tearing the country apart.
01:34But, economically, it is legal migration that is doing enormous damage to the British economy.
01:43And it's been so difficult to even talk about this subject without being screamed down.
01:49But just look at the direct link between falls in productivity and the mass importation of unskilled labour.
01:56In fact, that trend has been there now for the best part of 20 years.
02:00There are enormous costs to our benefit system of those, not just illegally, but legally, have come into our country.
02:11And, today, Zia is going to address some of that, as, indeed, we've touched on before.
02:17The idea that will get put at an alternative press conference today,
02:24which I understand is going on at the same time as this one,
02:27is that somehow reforms support a ballooning benefits bill.
02:33And yet, we're the ones proposing the most radical cuts to benefits,
02:37in numerical terms, that have ever been seen in the history of this country.
02:43So, I'm going to ask Zia to lay out our key five points today.
02:49We'll then, of course, take questions on that and anything else, as we always do.
02:54But I want you to bear in mind, with all the numbers that Zia is about to give you,
02:59these are before the Boris wave, before the Boris wave begin to become eligible.
03:07And for everything the Home Secretary has said about extending the number of years,
03:11you have to be in Britain to qualify, whether it's for ILR, whether it's for benefits,
03:15I don't see any changes happening to the Boris wave.
03:19And those numbers will start to hit by the end of this year,
03:24predicted by some think tanks to perhaps be one of the single biggest economic mistakes
03:30this country has ever made in its history.
03:34I'll now hand over for some of the details,
03:36although you might have heard them already on broadcast media this morning.
03:39I'll hand over to our Head of Policy, Zia Youssef.
03:42Good morning, everyone.
03:51Thank you for coming and for watching, if you're watching this on a live stream.
03:54So, tough decisions need to be made, is the refrain of the political class for years, decades now.
04:01British citizens constantly being told that they need to tighten their belts
04:05and they've got to accept paying ever more tax for ever worse public services.
04:10While that's been happening, as we're about to lay out,
04:13there has been the most extraordinary ballooning of British taxpayer expense
04:18being funneled to foreign nationals, including on our own shores,
04:21that you could possibly believe.
04:24The British state exists to serve British citizens.
04:27That is quite a radical idea these days in Westminster,
04:30which is why Nigel gets heckled whenever he says such a thing inside the House of Commons.
04:36But that is what it is for.
04:37And so, yes, we agree.
04:40The country is in an enormous amount of debt, closing on £3 trillion,
04:45thanks to the Tories, almost tripled it on their watch.
04:48We basically have no economic growth to speak of whatsoever.
04:52Real wages have barely done anything for people in this country for the last two decades.
04:56And we've seen the tax burden on people in this country.
04:59Tax is a percentage of GDP at World War II highs.
05:03Again, as Nigel said, we can thank the Tory party for all of that.
05:08The question is, who is going to bear the brunt of these, quote, tough decisions?
05:13And here's our perspective.
05:15It is foreign nationals who should first bear the brunt,
05:18before we ask any British citizens to make sacrifices.
05:22And that is the fundamental fault line right now in British politics.
05:27We are working incredibly hard to make Nigel Farage our next prime minister.
05:32And the reason for that is he will make every decision as...
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