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18: George Osborne: Austerity, Boris Johnson, and the UK's next Prime Minister

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The Consequences of Brexit

I'm surprised, you know, just to maybe finish on this, your kind of economic strategy. At the start of 2010, there was growth starting to come into the economy and that the deficit had gone up largely because of global recession. We've seen a plummeting of tax receipts. You then did make very, very big choices, which were focused on not just keeping public spending down, but actually huge cuts in some of the most important public services. And we're still seeing the consequences of that now. Well, I just simply don't accept that...

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