7 Prime Ministers, One Budget, and AI: What’s the Answer? | David Davis & Guto Harri

What's been interesting about the last few weeks, really, we're coming out of the conference season, and there was interesting similarities between certainly two big parties, well, big, the two Labour and Tory party conferences.

There were similarities.

I mean, one of them was that, unusually, the leaders were popular in both parties.

Yeah.

You had a sort of, I mean, what, forage? An articulate.

And emotive and so on.

Even

charismatic.

Positively

messianic indeed.

I'm afraid Farage made the joke, didn't he, that Burnham was the messiah without a man.

Well, yeah.

That's going to run.

But they were both very popular, but they also both were looking back at what caused the problems, in their view, what caused the problems they're facing.

We've had seven prime ministers in ten years.

That's not happened for two centuries.

And the simple truth is, the reason for that is not really to blame on me, it's partly to blame on the individuals, but mostly it's because the problems we're facing were created sometimes decades ago.

Here they are, they're dealing with what some people think are impossible problems, you know, the budget and so on.

We can talk about it in a second.

But you know, it did start a long time ago.

I mean, 1990, I mean, look, one of the big problems is Putin.

In 1990, the USSR collapsed.

We thought, that's fixed, right? And then in the mid-1990s, we had these fantastic world trade liberalizations.

Lifted one and a half billion, note that number, billion people out of absolute poverty.

And then we let China in a few years later without thinking about it.