Chief secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones has defended Chancellor Rachel Reeves' handling of the Budget as opposition figures claimed she misled the public over the size of the fiscal “repair job” she faces.
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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