As we face into a new year and we hopefully complete the important national work of having published this plan and given people an indication of the size of the adjustment they will have to make going forward and having given them a realistic and ambitious understanding of what we can achieve, we must pull together as a country in the critical times. We must recognise that we can look to the new year with a greater sense of clarity. People want a greater degree of certainty.

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