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It was a great lesson in what can be achieved and the trick we set ourselves under the late, great simon milton as leader was to do, to pull off the impossible, which was to have the lowest council tax in the country and be top of the local government league tables, the blairite local government league tables. and we managed to do it for performance. performance, right. and notjust performance on the stuff thats easy, but the hard stuff like, like social care and social services, right? so westm...

Performance, right. and notjust performance on the stuff thats easy, but the hard stuff, like social care and social services, right? so westminster city council was top of the league table for things like childrens services, really important risk—managing stuff. and that taught me an enormous lesson about financial rectitude and the ability to squeeze the maximum amount of value out of every pound. now, if i were the chief secretary to the treasury and i was listening to that, i think, tremen...

I we used to complain about the fact that we had too many fiscal events. we used to complain about the fact that we had too many fiscal events. but, you know, times change. and when youre in a situation of volatility like that, its critical. but, you know, chris philp, chief secretary, was out saying, you know, fiscal rectitude and discipline still remains at the heart of what we want to do. its a very important message for the market and the world to understand. but if you look at some of the s...

Its a very important message for the market and the world to understand. but if you look at some of the stuff that was was announced last friday, particularly the i mean, the technical word is supply side, but actually its measures to make it easier for people to go to work. easier to make wealth. easier to save money you to spend money. and to spend money. you know, all those kind of things are are coming down the track over the next few weeks. and im hopeful that all of that will hang together...

Performance, right. and notjust performance on the stuff thats easy, but the hard stuff like, like social care and social services, right? so westminster city council was top of the league table for things like childrens services, really important risk managing stuff. and that taught me an enormous lesson about financial rectitude and the ability to squeeze the maximum amount of value out of every pound. now, if i were the chief secretary to the treasury and i was listening to that, i think trem...

Taiwan is not under their control. they will take that back some day. but, and your point is well taken. they are going to do it on their timeline. we think the chinese are responding to us but the chinese are going to do it when they want to. and the most important we can do is make sure that they think they cant do that, and two things that are important. one, they have fought a big war since the 1970s, hard stuff, can they do it. and the other, you know, our commitment to taiwan and our abili...

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