Rachel Reeves

as well as through the trade deals that we're securing to make sure that our economy is well-suited to benefit from global investment, from business and wealth creation.

And that's what we'll continue to do.

Thank you.

You certainly ask interesting questions.

Well, no one needs to tell me how important child poverty is.

I came into the Labour Party because I wanted children from all backgrounds to have a good start in life.

We've already made strides in reducing child poverty in this Parliament.

We're rolling out free breakfast clubs at all primary schools, extending free school meals to an additional 500,000 children.

We've capped the cost of school uniform.

We've increased the national living wage and national minimum wage.

Would I like to do more?

Yes.

But, of course, we haven't always got to explain how policies will be paid for.

We've got the report from the Child Poverty Task Force later this year and we'll respond to that.

But it is important for all families that the numbers add up.

And that's always what I've done as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

We campaigned the election on economic stability, fiscal responsibility.

And we did that for a reason, because it was ordinary working people and businesses who paid the price for the economic mismanagement in the last parliament, when interest rates went through the roof, when inflation got out of control, when pensions were put in peril.

And because of that, my party, the Labour Party, accepted the crucial importance of economic discipline to support working families.

It's not intention, economic responsibility, to our commitments to make people better off.