Was Labour’s budget a failure?

I spoke with locals in Durham on their thoughts of the recent budgets and potential rising costs, as businesses increase costs to customers.

Transcript

00:00I think the problem was the Labour Party was cornered by the Conservatives into promising no tax rises

00:07and then when they found this great big black hole

00:10or the cost of everything that we've paid for and have to pay back, then they had no choice.

00:19I think they funded the wrong things.

00:22They should be putting more funding into the hospitals and that because the waiting times are quite bad

00:27and there's not enough beds for the patients and that as well.

00:30I think the budgets and the funding should be going into that, not unimportant things.

00:35It makes me a bit nervous, that's for sure.

00:37I can't say I kept up with all those conversations and things like that

00:43but you just see it around if you're not keeping up with it.

00:46The price of food in Durham especially, I just went grocery shopping, I spent £40 buying five things.

00:54It's not a super affordable place to live, especially Durham, but it makes me a bit nervous for sure.