Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says his government has done "what is responsible to fix the foundations and rebuild our country", following yesterday's Budget. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We've had to do what is responsible to fix the foundations and rebuild our country.
00:07As I think is now well understood, we inherited a £22 billion black hole,
00:12money that wasn't accounted for by the last government.
00:15I'm not prepared to simply walk past that. We have to fix it.
00:18So we've done the responsible thing.
00:20The principles that we've put in place are to stabilise our economy
00:25and to invest in the future along with reform.
00:29In a sense, it's important to bear in mind what we get for that.
00:34What we get for that is investment in our NHS, bringing those waiting lists down.
00:38That is hugely important to millions of people.
00:41We get investment in our schools and the teachers that are definitely needed.
00:45We get investment in house building, the homes that people desperately need
00:49as an affordable place to live.
00:51So yes, difficult decisions, but we've scrubbed down,
00:54we've taken the difficult, tough decisions now.
00:56And I think everybody would, or many people, would be in agreement
00:59that health, education and housing and issues like that
01:02are the really important things for our country to be driving towards.