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🗓️ 12 June 2025
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0:00.0 | But let's now go back to Zia Yusuf, who's here for the first time since he's not been chairman of Reform UK. |
0:07.0 | Zia, welcome back. Very good to see you. |
0:09.0 | Good morning, Mike. |
0:10.0 | Nice to see you. |
0:11.3 | Incredible sort of brass neck, I think, is probably the best way to describe Rachel Reeves yesterday. |
0:16.7 | I couldn't make head and or tail of the figures, you know, looking at the analysis this morning in the newspapers. |
0:22.4 | Everybody's got a different number for exactly how much money she's actually planning to spend. |
0:26.9 | You know, is it 300 billion? Is it 500 billion? Is it $500 billion? Is it $4 trillion? |
0:31.8 | I mean, you're a businessman. What do you make of it? |
0:35.9 | Well, it's funny because anytime a reform representative talks about |
0:40.1 | how we want to cut taxes on working people, you get this enormous, angry response from the |
0:46.3 | mainstream media demanding to know, how are you going to fund that? And Labor's answer to this |
0:51.3 | is always, spank it up, put it on the credit card, right? |
0:54.4 | Just whack all of this spending on the credit card. |
0:57.6 | Originally, she said she was going to be 87 billion a year. |
1:00.0 | That's now going to be north of 150 billion a year. |
1:03.2 | As you've said, the interest costs alone for this country are 100 billion years. |
1:08.0 | I do want to caveat this, though, and be really clear. |
1:10.0 | Actually, the majority of that is the result of the drunken sailors in the Tory party. They were the ones |
1:14.4 | who tripled the national debt in their 14 years. So she's promising, like many chancellors |
1:19.7 | before her inside the uni party, she's promising everybody a larger slice of pie. The NHS gets more |
1:26.2 | pie. The defence department gets more pie. |
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