Lizzy Burden

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Thanks for making time for Bloomberg TV and Radio, Chancellor.

We've heard you say already that the public finances are in a pretty precarious position.

So I want to ask you, many Labour MPs really want you to lift the two-child benefit cap, and we hear that includes the Prime Minister.

Can we afford to do that?

And that's been a really strong message from you throughout.

Does your party, though, understand how important it is to make the numbers add up, stand on the right side of the bond market?

So look, on winter fuel payments, on pay rises for doctors, on welfare reforms, you've seemed to give.

But when are you going to take away?

When are you going to choose the bond market over the left of your party?

What would you do about it if someone said they don't want to work in the care home?

OK, look, I don't expect you to pre-empt your budget with me, Chancellor, but you did promise business that there'd be no more borrowing and no more tax rises.

Is that still true?

those commitments stand you say the manifesto stands in the manifesto you said will not increase national insurance the basic higher or additional rates of income tax or VAT yes or no does that still hold?

So we need to know where you're going to find the money from.

The French are in a similar fiscal bind.

They're seemingly on the brink of a wealth tax.