Kwasi Kwarteng Reacts To Labour's Budget!
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Rob Moore
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Quasi, any shockers for you in the budget? |
| 0:04.0 | So it was a pretty extraordinary and surreal experience for me because obviously I've been there and there was huge market turbulence and we know what happened and then I was sacked and LIS trust resigned and all of that. |
| 0:14.0 | So it was odd seeing it on television because it was the first budget in many years when I haven't been an MP. |
| 0:20.0 | And actually to be fair to the government, they pretty much did what Labour governments |
| 0:25.3 | generally do. |
| 0:26.7 | Doesn't make it right, though, doesn't it? |
| 0:27.8 | No, it doesn't. |
| 0:28.8 | But it wasn't a surprise. |
| 0:30.0 | So what they did was they hiked up taxes by £40 billion, which was, in fact, more than |
| 0:36.8 | they leaked that morning, |
| 0:40.1 | because I read a report in the Times, which suggested they'd expand, they'd raise taxes by 35 billion. |
| 0:46.1 | So they did a bit more of that. |
| 0:47.7 | Is that a lot for a budget? |
| 0:49.0 | It's a huge amount. |
| 0:50.1 | So I think it's the biggest hike since 1993. |
| 0:55.0 | Wow. |
| 0:56.0 | And that was at the back of a recession. |
| 0:59.0 | We were coming out of a recession and there was a deficit. |
| 1:01.0 | We hiked the Tories actually hiked up taxes. |
| 1:04.0 | I think it was Norman LeMont. |
| 1:06.0 | Rachel Reeves hiked them up by more in real terms, |
| 1:10.0 | but sort of more in nominal terms, but in real terms in terms of the size of the economy, a bit less. |
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