Finance (No. 4) Bill

Debate between Adrian Bailey and Lord Watts

Wednesday 18th April 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Bailey]

Perhaps we should. Perhaps we should introduce a tax on certain members or major funders of the Conservative party, too.

[Mr Watts]

Does my hon. Friend not think that it a bit ironic that people who are suggesting that the previous Labour Government’s problems created the financial crisis are the same people—the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives—who were calling for less regulation? It is interesting how the Government are trying to rewrite history.

[Mr Bailey]

I have often made the same point myself. I was on the Government Benches at the time of the so-called financial crisis and the run-up to it, and I do not remember any demands whatsoever from the then Opposition for us to introduce heightened regulation of the banking system. It is very easy to be wise in retrospect.