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Have made choices which close the gap, they have widened here. let's give one little example of policy levers which is spending on transport. i will show you a chart here which are treasury numbers, showing just how much per head is spent in yorkshire and humber on transport, £309. it is nearly treble in london, £882. there are reasons why you would expect that, london has a bigger transport system, a bigger population. but the logic, you spend more and the system gets bigger, that is why you get divergence. the government says it wants to bridge the gaps. it doesn't wants to bridge the gaps...

Starting to write tax refund checks, so that was part of it. a little glimmer of hope in there, if you look in these treasury numbers, that we did see tax revenues increase for the first time in many, many months in the month of february after what has been really a freefall for some time so that's a little good news. but overall, seriously, a sea of red ink here and the only way to fix it, the only way to correct it, of course, is growth. you need to get the economy growing again and that's one of the reasons why they're spending all this money, they're trying to get the economy growing again...