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Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride says that the government is "not getting on top of public spending", by not getting people "off benefits and into work". This is despite a decrease of 38% in public sector borrowing between December 2024 and December 2025. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00If you look at it overall it's 140 billion pounds this year. For two years running we've had record levels of borrowing outside of the pandemic.
00:08And this is because the government is not getting on top of public spending, particularly the welfare bill.
00:12Getting people off benefits, getting that bill down and into work.
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