The technology secretary has called for "cool, calm minds" in tackling the global challenges faced due to Donald Trump's tariffs placed on US trading partners. Peter Kyle adds the government has had to get the foundations of the economy right, which he says was achieved through the Budget, increased investment and artificial intelligence. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The global economy is facing lots of challenges at the moment and all of them need to be tackled with the same
00:06Approach firstly to be approached with cool calm
00:11Minds and that's what you'll have with this government. And secondly, you need to get the foundations of our economy, right?
00:18Which is why we have been that we have the budget to fix those foundations and why we're building on it now
00:23With that huge investment into the infrastructure of our country
00:26The regulatory planning reforms the AI action plan that the Prime Minister announced last month to renew our infrastructure
00:34So we have the data the data and digital infrastructure of the future
00:37These are the things that are going to make us more resilient
00:39for all economic shocks and economic shocks do come from around the world from time to time and the
00:45Fundamental way of responding to all of them remains the same and that's why getting a grip on our finances
00:51Making sure we're investing in the infrastructure of the future and the skills of the future is so essential and that is exactly what we've been
00:57doing