All 1 Alison Thewliss contributions to the Finance (No.2) Act 2017

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Wed 6th Sep 2017
Ways and Means
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Ways and Means resolution: House of Commons
Wednesday 6th September 2017

(7 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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And Manchester, as my hon. Friend says.

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Of course, we cannot forget Glasgow. We have several powerful financial centres in the UK. They can contribute enormously to our revenues as well as creating jobs and making the UK an attractive place to do business. However, we should never forget that the crash was a banking crisis, and the thought of politicians—not just the UK Government of the day, but Governments throughout the world—was not that they had spent too much or invested too much in schools, hospitals, teachers, dinner ladies, nurses and doctors, but that the regulatory regime that oversaw financial services was inadequate for the practices of the time. A corrosive greed took hold on Wall Street and in the City and the vast majority of people paid the price.