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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Addresses Conservatives at Party Conference
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10/4/2023
UK Prime Minister Rushi Sunak addressed his own Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester.
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You see that our most potent strength, our most powerful resource, our greatest hope,
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is our people. But what I've learnt is that there is an undeniable sense that politics just doesn't
00:12
work the way it should. The feeling that Westminster is a broken system, and the same goes for Holyrood,
00:18
Cardiff Bay and Stormont. It isn't anger, it's an exhaustion with politics. In particular,
00:26
politicians saying things and then nothing ever changing. And you know what? People are right.
00:33
Politics doesn't work the way it should. We've had 30 years of a political system which incentivises
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the easy decision, not the right one. 30 years of vested interests standing in the way of change.
00:48
30 years of rhetorical ambition which achieves little more than a short-term headline. And why?
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Because our political system is too focused on short-term advantage, not long-term success.
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Politicians spend more time campaigning for change than actually delivering it.
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It doesn't have to be this way. I won't be this way. Conference, our mission is to fundamentally
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change our country. And if we want fundamental change in our country, we need a strong economy
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as a foundation. That is why halving inflation was the first and most important of the five
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priorities I set out at the start of the year. Everything we want to achieve requires getting
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inflation under control. Inflation is the biggest destroyer of all, of industry, of jobs, of savings
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and of society. No policy which puts at risk the defeat of inflation, no matter its short-term
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attraction, can be right. Not my words, but those of Margaret Thatcher, as true now as they were then.
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[Applause]
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I know you want tax cuts. I want them too and we will deliver them. But the best tax cut we can
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give people right now is to halve inflation and ease the cost of living. And so I am ending
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this long-running saga. I am cancelling the rest of the HS2 project. And in its place,
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[Applause]
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and in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion in hundreds of new transport
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projects in the North and the Midlands, across the country. This means £36 billion of investment
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in the project that will make a real difference across our nation.
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[Applause]
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