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Chancellor Rachel Reeves says people are forecast to be £1000 better off per year by the next election and that unemployment is set to peak later this year before falling "every year of the forecast period". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00By the next election, after accounting for inflation,
00:04people are forecast to be £1,000 better off per year.
00:12Oh, I didn't hear them that time.
00:15We promised change, Mr Speaker, and we are delivering that change.
00:19The economy is growing, living standards are rising,
00:23and inflation has fallen.
00:25But I'm not satisfied yet with these forecasts.
00:28I know that the economy is not yet working for everyone
00:32and that the deep economic scars left by the party opposite
00:35and their mates in reform are still blighting the lives of too many people.
00:41In today's forecasts, unemployment is set to peak later this year
00:45and then fall in every year of the forecast period,
00:50ending the forecast period at 4.1%,
00:54lower than it was at the start of the Parliament.
00:58happening in boldness at the start of the York City Hall.
00:59the European Union has all begun to go.
00:59MARTIN
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