The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. Today's episode is part two of our recent live event with Jeremy Hunt, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Health Secretary. Hunt joined us at Smith Square Hall in Westminster for the Intelligence. economic outlook produced in partnership with Guinness Global Investors.

For those who don't know, Guinness Global Investors is an independent British fund manager that helps both individuals and institutions harness the drivers of future growth to achieve their investment goals. If you missed the first part of this discussion, we recommend jumping back an episode to get up to speed. But now let's rejoin the conversation live from Smith Square Hall in Westminster. You mentioned welfare reform and a a regret that you didn't tackle it. Maybe you didn't have time, maybe there wasn't the political energy.

How do you judge so far the attempts of this government to reform the welfare system? Well, obviously they haven't been successful, but I I think this is very mission critical for the government and I I genuinely speaking as someone who's obviously not a Labour supporter but I I genuinely want them to succeed because I'm worried that they don't realise that the alternative is going to be continually having to come back and raise taxes and that will kill off growth. And that's, you know, that's already gone wrong for one year and you know heaven forbid if we had that for another four years.

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