00:00So we had on the one hand £16 billion less than we might otherwise have had.
00:03We had clear commitments that we'd made throughout the process as to what it was we were going to achieve.
00:09Therefore, against that backdrop, it was inevitable that we would always have to raise revenue.
00:16So there's no misleading there.
00:19During the overall process, the numbers improved.
00:24And there was a point at which we thought, myself included,
00:29that we might have to reach for a manifesto breach of some significance.
00:36I didn't want to get to that place, but I recognised we might have to.
00:41And as the process then continued, it became clear to me and others
00:46that we might be able to do what we needed to do with our priorities without that manifesto breach.
00:53And that's what we did with the fair and necessary decisions that we took.
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