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Prime Minister, the overwhelming majority of GB News viewers tell us they think they're worse off from the budget
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What's your message to them now they feel you've ruined their Christmas
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Well, we have asked everybody to make a contribution to the necessary decisions and the fair decisions for our country
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But what I can say to your viewers is that money is going to protect our NHS, which will be a huge concern of theirs
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to make sure that when they and their families need it, I hope they don't over Christmas
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but when they do, that it is protected for them. It's going into our schools to make sure every child can go as far as their talent for technology
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I know for your viewers that would be really important, but also it's going into the measures that we're taking to drive down the cost of living
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We've frozen rail fares, frozen prescription charges, and now yesterday we announced £150 on average of all energy bills right across the country
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For many of your viewers, that would be welcome use because it's one of the bills they worry most about
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If they're amongst the six million of the poorest families, that's on top of the 150 that we've already taken off
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So they're the principles behind the decisions that we took. But Prime Minister, you're raising taxes and giving the money from working people to those on benefits
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How can that be right? No, it's going to our NHS, it's going to our schools and it's going on cost of living measures
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But I won't apologise for the fact we are also lifting 500,000 children out of poverty
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I don't want to live in a country where children pay the price in poverty
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and three quarters of the families in which children are living in poverty are working families
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They're the working poor. The other thing I'd say, because we're in a hospital yesterday, is if you go to the NHS and ask them
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they will say there's a direct link between child poverty and children coming into hospitals
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So we take the pressure off the NHS. So I'm not going to apologise for taking children out of poverty
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It's desperately needed
