Tax Credits

Alex Salmond Excerpts

Tuesday 27th October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Rees-Mogg]

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder what you will do to remind their lordships of our declaration of privilege from 1678, declaring that all financial matters pertain to this House, a privilege that the House of Lords has now ignored only three times since 1860. As our mouthpiece, will you bring that to the attention of their lordships in no uncertain terms?

[Alex Salmond (Gordon) (SNP)]

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[Mr Speaker]

I will take Mr Salmond’s point of order before I respond.

[Alex Salmond]

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am becoming increasingly concerned about the outbreak of revolutionary fervour among Conservative Members. Has there ever been a precedent for a Chancellor of the Exchequer being outflanked as a defender of the working classes by the House of Lords?

[Clive Efford]

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