Jeremy Hunt’s ‘back to work’ budget
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.5 | Today, Jeremy Hunt's first budget. |
| 0:12.1 | What's in it for you? |
| 0:22.7 | Madam Deputy Speaker, in the face of enormous challenges, |
| 0:27.6 | I report today on a British economy which is proving the doubters wrong. |
| 0:35.0 | In the autumn, we took difficult decisions to deliver stability and sound money. |
| 0:42.8 | One of Jeremy Hunt's jobs as Chancellor is to reassure people that the government is helping them. |
| 0:49.4 | By creating jobs, keeping their bills down, contributing towards the price of raising children |
| 0:56.0 | and so much else. It costs a lot to survive in our society. |
| 1:01.6 | And since Hunt was suddenly thrown into the job last autumn, he's had to bring under control |
| 1:08.1 | the economic turmoil that was created by his predecessor and the then Prime Minister. |
| 1:14.4 | Yesterday, outlining his first budget, the Chancellor wanted to tell us that because of his |
| 1:20.1 | economic policies, we're all going to be okay. |
| 1:26.4 | We're going to have priorities to have inflation reduce debt and get the economy growing. |
| 1:32.2 | We are following the plan and the plan is working. |
| 1:37.6 | His plan is to get more people into work because even though unemployment rates are at their lowest |
| 1:44.8 | since the 1970s, there are still lots of jobs going. |
| 1:49.2 | We agree with the Road-Holage King Eddie Stobart, who said the only place success comes before work |
| 1:55.4 | is the dictionary. So today I bring forward reforms to remove the barriers that stop people who |
| 2:04.0 | want to from working. |
| 2:16.1 | But we're still in the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation. |
| 2:21.4 | And it's not clear whether his promises will be enough for the millions of people who are |
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