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Angela Rayner has defended Labour's record of managing the economy ahead of Wednesday's Budget. The Local Government Secretary said the government has prioritised investing in public services, housebuilding, renewable energy and defence and is working to ensure growth and job creation benefit communities across the UK. Report by Etemadil. 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'm not going to get ahead of what the Chancellor will set out next week in the budget,
00:04but we've already seen investment from the previous Chancellor since Labour came into power.
00:09We've invested in our public services and we're starting to rebuild Britain again,
00:13creating the jobs that we need into the future, whether that was through renewables
00:17or whether it's through our house building programme or the investment that we've seen,
00:22the record investment in our defence since the Cold War that is already creating jobs
00:26and helping our UK economy and the IMF have said that the UK economy is one of the fastest growing
00:31in the G7 alongside Germany and we have the best deficit reduction plan.
00:36So we know the economy is resilient because of the changes we've made
00:40and we are building on that to ensure that those jobs are coming here to Britain
00:44and that everywhere across the whole of the United Kingdom can share in that growth.

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