The chancellor says house building commitments in her Spring Statement will benefit young people and that she is "not in favour of national service". Speaking to ITV News, Rachel Reeves adds watching a Sabrina Carpenter concert in a box was "the right thing to do" given her security needs. 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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00:00Reflecting the fact that the world has changed so much with the importance of
00:06spending more on defence but also all of the uncertainty in the world does mean
00:11that globally growth forecasts for this year have been revised down but actually
00:15for each subsequent year right up until the end of the decade growth forecasts
00:19have been revised upwards because of the investment we're putting in for example
00:23for new housing. I'm not in favour of national service but there are vacancies
00:27in our armed forces and we need to recruit more people and I think that
00:31people can see in the changed world in which we're in today the opportunities
00:36for good jobs in our armed forces but also in the defence sector that produces
00:42the tanks, the machinery, the ships that our armed forces use.
00:47Well I've got to tell you Sabrina Carpenter I mean she's great but I am a 46 year
00:52old woman so I think it probably will come no surprise that it was another
00:56family member of mine who was more of the Sabrina Carpenter fan and in the job
01:00that I'm doing now it is harder to do some of those normal everyday things now
01:05don't get me wrong this job is a privilege of my life but I do now have
01:08security and just doing things like you know going to a pop concert which I'd
01:12love to be able to do with my my kids I just can't do that in the way that I
01:17could before so I did take tickets to be in a box and I felt that was the right
01:21thing to do for you know the security needs that I've got now I know that for
01:26some people that will look weird I totally get that I do want to carry on
01:31doing the things that normal parents do with their kids and that gave me the
01:35opportunity to do that I did enjoy the song so please please please