Jeremy Hunt hits back at Rachel Reeves amid UK finances row

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Shadow chancellor Jeremy Hunt hit back at Rachel Reeves after the chancellor accused him of a 'lying' about the state of the public finances. "We had good plans in place to control the public finances and she has rejected those plans," he said. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think it's very disappointing to bring politics down to that level.
00:05I think she can do better than that.
00:07On the election night, when I knew we'd lost the election, I said that she was a decent
00:13person and a committed public servant.
00:15I think she can do better than that kind of language, when actually there is a proper
00:22debate to be had here.
00:23We had good plans in place to control the public finances.
00:27She has rejected those plans.
00:29She now needs to be honest and say, look, I want to do things differently.
00:33It costs more, and therefore she's going to have to raise taxes.
00:37And I think it's a very cheap shot, which won't fool anyone to try and blame those tax
00:42rises on the previous Conservative government, when she knew all along that was what she
00:47was going to do.

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