Leeds locals reflect on the Autumn Budget 2024

What are your reflections on the Autumn Budget? How will it impact you?

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00:00If you need to sort out the problems like the health service, like the lack of affordable housing, education, you need to spend money.

00:07If you need money, you need to increase taxes.

00:10And since the government is prioritising growth, the way to get growth is to stimulate demand in the economy.

00:18Not taxing people on lower incomes is a good thing.

00:21With the £4 billion increase on employers paying more tax, obviously that is more harsh on them,

00:26as that means we don't have to give harsher wages to other people, so it's just a knock on effect.

00:33It's good that the national minimum wage will be going up in April because obviously things cost too much for people

00:43and it's harder for people to afford everything on a daily basis.

00:49Maybe a bit more support on the basic things that we need, like food, electricity, basically the bills.

00:55Then maybe we can really, really feel the impact of all the things they're doing.