Labour's James Murray says inflation falling to its 2% target is "welcome", but adds, "I'm not going to stand here and say everything's fine". The shadow treasury minister says, "people can't risk another five years of chaos with the Conservatives, of people being worse off", and that a vote for Labour " is one to get the economy going". 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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00:00Well, look, any fall in inflation is welcome, but unlike the Conservatives, I'm not going
00:05to stand here and say, oh, everything's fine.
00:08You know, the Conservatives are wrong to say that people should be grateful and that everything's
00:13fine and there's nothing to worry about, because the truth is, after 14 years of the Conservatives,
00:18people are worse off.
00:19Prices in the shops have still gone up, mortgage payments have still gone up, taxes are a 70-year
00:24high.
00:25And I think the choice that people will be thinking about going into the election is,
00:28what do I want for the next five years?
00:30Do I want five more years of chaos with the Conservatives, or do I want economic growth
00:34with the Labour Party that will make people across Britain better off?
00:37During the Conservatives' time in office, we were far worse hit than many other countries
00:41by the global shocks that we faced, like the energy price crisis.
00:46We also had a domestic crisis manufactured by Liz Truss, who set the economy on fire
00:52during her tenure in office, and people are still paying the price now of what Liz Truss
00:56did to the economy while she was Prime Minister.
00:59And what's really worrying is that senior Conservative politicians going into this election,
01:04far from distancing themselves from Liz Truss's record in office, seem to be defending it
01:09and, in fact, copying some of her approach in their manifesto commitments with unfunded
01:14pledges that they haven't set out how they're going to pay for.
01:17And I think people can't risk another five years of chaos with the Conservatives, of
01:21people being worse off.
01:23A vote for Labour is one to get the economy growing and make people better off.
01:26Look, we know that the tax burden is already the highest in 70 years.
01:30We want taxes to be lower, and that's why we're going into the election with an ironcast
01:35commitment to not raise national insurance, income tax and VAT.
01:41But we also know that the way to bring taxes down responsibly for working people is to
01:45get the economy growing, and that's why economic growth is so central to what we're putting
01:49to the electorate ahead of the election.