00:00And since then, actually, your ratings have got worse, more of your plans had to be ditched by your political decision-making, even at the Royal Variety performance, someone impersonating you was booed. Now, by many measures, you are historically unpopular, even more unpopular than Liz Truss. Do you acknowledge that at the beginning of this year?
00:18Look, I'm not surprised that people are frustrated. I completely get that. The truth is, since the crash in 2008, most people haven't seen their living standards improved. They haven't seen their public services move in the right direction, they've seen them move in the wrong direction, and they've lost trust in politics.
00:41So when we went to the electorate in 2024, saying our manifesto pledge is change, many people said, yes, I want that change. I'm fed up. But then what happened is that people wanted the change to come more quickly.
00:58I actually really understand that, because if, for example, you were 30, let's say, by way of example, in 2008, when the 08 crash, you've waited, you're now 47, and you will feel, well, a good chunk of my life has gone without things getting better.
01:14If you were perhaps 50, you would be near retirement now. You'd say, I want things to happen more quickly. So I actually do understand the frustration.
01:23My job, I was given a five-year mandate to change this country around, and I said we'd do it in a serious way, with long-term measures that would actually benefit the country. Not slogans, not easy answers, not all the things that failed so miserably over the last 14 years of the last government, but to do it differently.
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