Leader of the Opposition, Rishi Sunak, accuses the government of delivering a 'Budget of broken promises', and 'not being straight' with the British public. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The choices I have made today are the right choices for our country, to restore stability
00:09to our public finances, to protect working people, to fix our NHS and to rebuild Britain.
00:21That doesn't mean these choices are easy, but they are responsible. If the party opposite
00:29disagrees with the choices that I have made, then they must answer. What choices would
00:37they make?
00:40On the day that he took office, the Prime Minister said that he wanted to restore trust
00:45to British politics with action, not words. Well, today, his actions speak for themselves,
00:53with a Budget that contains broken promise after broken promise and reveals the simple
01:02truth that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have not been straight with the British people.
01:08They have fiddled the figures, they have raised tax to record levels, they have broken their
01:15promises and it is the working people of this country that are going to pay the price. Now,
01:23the Chancellor and Prime Minister have tried to say that they had no choice, but be in
01:28no doubt, their misleading claims about the state of the economy are nothing but a cynical
01:35political device.