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General Election 2024: Jonathan Ashworth and Ellie Reeves visit Croydon; ENGLAND: London: Croydon: EXT Ellie Reeves (Labour candidate for Lewisham West and Penge) and Jonathan Ashworth (Labour candidate for Leicester South) speaking to crowd of supporters and candidates including Natasha Irons (Labour candidate for Croydon East), Sarah Jones (Labour candidate for Croydon Central) and Ben Taylor (Labour candidate for Croydon South) JONATHAN ASHWORTH question and answer SOT ON INTEREST RATES -let's just remember what happened with Liz Truss's catastrophic budget -she went on a bonanza of unfunded commitments -bank of England had to step in -Jeremy Hunt has said the money is not there to fund any commitment in the tory manifesto -five more years of the tories means spending so much more on their mortgage ON PRIME MINISTERS PLAN WORKING -if Rishi Sunak wants to go around then that's fine -decisions taken by the Conservatives -grow our economy, create good well paid jobs across the country -have a decent home, that's the difference a labour government will make ON PUTTING AN END TO THE ABILITY TO TAKE A TAX FREE LUMP SUM FROM PENSION -that is staying in place ON FARAGE -there is no place for that in British politics -any political party with racist campaigners should be kicked out of the party -Farage is allowed to express his views in the way that he does -he should kick them out of the party -he's clearly got activists associated with his party who are racist and they need to be kicked out ON CLAIMING ASYLUM