What would you like to see announced in the Autumn Budget 2023?

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What would you like to see announced in the Autumn Budget 2023? Leeds locals reveal their priorities.

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00:00 The biggest thing for me is to see any measure at all that helps families that are not so

00:06 well off.

00:07 Just to hear about so many families struggling so much and people who are decent working

00:13 people and they really, really need the help.

00:16 So that's my big thing.

00:18 Energy costs definitely and anything that can help the price of food down.

00:23 People are so badly hit with food inflation, which seems to be higher than the percentage

00:28 inflation that we're seeing on the news.

00:31 I think businesses are yearning for him to reduce the business rates because the economy

00:41 needs stimulating and that's how you do it.

00:45 It's just whether they can afford to.

00:47 Obviously maybe a little bit off the income tax would be nice and obviously he's got one

00:54 eye on the general election next year.

00:58 I still love my process.

00:59 I'm still young and everything.

01:01 But from what I've been seeing, everything just went really up as well, especially with

01:06 the whole inflation thing and everything.

01:07 Everything just went up and a lot of people that I know and heard of, they just move out

01:11 the entire England to go live somewhere else because other places are way cheaper and less

01:17 expensive and all that stuff.

01:18 I think we've been in a recession.

01:20 We've gone through Covid and it's been very difficult times.

01:22 And I think obviously the government want to give people something back.

01:26 But I'm quite concerned that that will disproportionately benefit those who are better off.

01:30 And I'd like to see more money going into the important and essential services like

01:35 the NHS, education, social care, youth community and that sort of thing.

01:40 That's what I really feel strongly about.

01:42 The economy needs more taxation rather than less.

01:48 At an individual level, I want less taxation.

01:50 Obviously every individual does.

01:52 But the country is deeply in debt.

01:55 We're exposed to rising interest rates.

01:58 That's the regime that's likely to be, as they say, higher for longer.

02:04 And I'm afraid the Chancellor, if he's responsible, has got to reflect that in what he decides.

02:10 This government 15 years ago talked about inheritance tax and it came in.

02:16 And it's an X figure.

02:18 In 15 years, they haven't moved it once, which means that more and more people are

02:22 paying for it.

02:23 To me, they're coming in 15 years too late.

02:27 That should have been an annual thing, like tax for being paid on a set figure, not to

02:31 be kept there for 15 years.

02:33 I do think more support for energy.

02:35 I mean, the prices are really almost double what they were a few years back.

02:40 And also the cost of fuel.

02:41 I know it's coming down, but it seems to me that the wholesalers are keeping the price

02:45 very high when in fact it just doesn't need to be that high.

02:49 I think Jeremy Hunt's had quite a few different positions over the years.

02:54 I don't think the population's really taken to him.

03:00 But I hope he gets the economy going again.

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