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There have been a lot of reactions to
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this week's budget, especially obviously
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from the leader of the opposition, Kem
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Bay, but um today she's come out with a
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bit of a different kind of criticism to
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what you'd normally expect.
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Yeah. So Kemy's been really fiery in her
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response as we saw with her response to
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the budget on Wednesday. She really did
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pull no punches uh when she went in on
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Rachel Reeves. But today we've had a bit
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of a different line out out of her. uh
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she's really focused on the welfare
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spending which as we've digested the
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budget and as we've looked into the
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figures a bit more and as some of the
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stuff we're seeing from the OBR it's
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really looking like a lot of these taxes
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were raised to fund the welfare spending
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uh and this morning Kem said um the
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higher welfare spending is uncchristian
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now it's not Kemy's first dabble in uh
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going a bit biblical we saw actually a
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few months ago I think it was a few
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weeks ago even on I want to say um it
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was 17th of November she quoted St.
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Paul's advice to Timothy in the Bible as
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she argued anyone who does not provide
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for their relatives and especially for
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their own household has denied the
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faith. Now she's gone biblical again
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when uh pressed in an interview if um
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the budget was on Christian. She said it
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could be argued that. And then she
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doubled down on the comments um saying
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the Christian tradition is about
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communities and families and charity not
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about compulsory taxation in order to
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That's not the normal kind of uh back
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and forth you'd expect.
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No. And it's really goes to show how
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this sort of dynamic between Kemmy the
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prime minister and now the chancellor
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has really strayed from just the the
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typical policy as we see at the dispatch
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box. Um it's gone a lot into feminism
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over the last few days. We've seen uh
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after the chancellor did a few of her
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profiles where she said she was sick of
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the mansplaining. That's been something
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Kemy's really gone into. She said she
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was speaking to the chancellor woman
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towoman in her response on Wednesday.
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Saw that. And then Yeah. And then then
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just this morning she uh said the budget
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was damaging to feminism. She says,
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"We've now had two bad budgets delivered
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by a woman and that didn't really set a
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good example." So, it's really gone into
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the personal. Um, Kemy's continued to
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double down her comments. Reeves has
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tried to um maybe not go back as as
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directly in in that in that line, but um
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yeah, Kemy's really laser focused on
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this sort of line of uh line of attack.
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Do you think we're now past the era of
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Alistister Campbell's We Don't Do God?
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Do you think we're back in back in the
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kind of uh theological political area in
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It was an interesting move and I think
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that that's the thing we we get with
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Kem. She does just pull no punches and
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she'll say it like she was asked um
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relating to that comment about the
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advice with um uh Timothy. She she was
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asked about that again. She was asked if
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her budget was on Christian, she doubled
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down and then even went further. She's
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she's shown now she's not shying away
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from these sort of comments. She will
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pull no punches. She called the budget a
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budget for benefit streets on Wednesday
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and I think this is really her line of
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attacking and it's seemed to have
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impressed a lot of the right-wing and
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garnered a lot of favor with the Tories
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who a couple of months ago were actually
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having questions about her as leader but
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it's if if anything this has actually
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strummed up a lot of affection for her
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I'd say on that side of the the
