00:00Do you think there was a leak from No. 10 Downing Street about the budget?
00:03In relation to that instance, there's a leak inquiry going on as I think the Chancellor has announced.
00:10So that will go wherever the evidence takes it.
00:13So if there was a leak from No. 10, do you think there was a leak from No. 10?
00:16I've no reason to think there was a leak from No. 10.
00:17So if there were a leak from No. 10, what would you do if someone was down?
00:22I'd take action. I mean, and I have taken action.
00:24It's very difficult with leaks to get to the source of the information.
00:29You would take action?
00:30Where that has happened in the past, I have taken action, which has led to the removal of individuals.
00:36Okay, so you would go as far as removing an individual if they were found to leak the budget?
00:39Obviously, I'll wait for the inquiry.
00:41But I mean, the inquiry will go wherever the evidence takes it.
00:43There's nothing to inhibit where they will go.
00:47And I'll take appropriate action if there's a finding in relation to that.
00:50Because the report in the FT was very clear.
00:53It talked about an official source.
00:54And Mr Parker is a journalist who would have sourced that story.
00:57Look, I mean, I'll get to the bottom of these leaks.
01:02They are, in any organisations, they're intolerable.
01:06I took the same action when I was head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
01:09There is a leak inquiry.
01:11It can go wherever the evidence will take it.
01:12And if it comes to a conclusion, I'll act on it.
01:15And if you need a lectured on it.
01:31Here we are.
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