00:00Did the Chancellor mislead the public in the run-up to last week's budget?
00:05No, of course she didn't. The Chancellor was very clear in the run-up to the budget that she wanted to do three things with the budget this year.
00:11The first was to help tackle the cost of living crisis. The second was to protect investment in the National Health Service.
00:17And the third was to get debt falling as a share of the economy by the end of this parliament.
00:22And she ticked all of those boxes. And the public have seen we've been able to cut energy bills, invest in childcare, freeze railfares,
00:30but also to, as I say, protect that investment in the National Health Service and the budget delivered against all of the tests that the Chancellor set for herself.
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