Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Amber Rudd Excerpts
Tuesday 4th June 2013

(11 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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The hon. Gentleman is getting a little carried away, as ever. Labour has a constant, rather unedifying record of stuffing the other place with Labour appointees. As I said, if only the hon. Gentleman had given us support for giving the British people a say in who should go to the House of Lords, we would not be stuck with this old-fashioned, archaic way of making appointments, which all party leaders are stuck with for the time being.

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye) (Con)
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T5. The coalition was formed to deal with the disastrous economic legacy left to us by the last Government. Was the Deputy Prime Minister won over by the proposals made by the shadow Chancellor yesterday, which—as always from Labour—added up to only one thing: borrow, borrow, borrow?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. We will not bother with that one. The problem with it is that it was about the policy of the Opposition. Questions must be about the policy of the Government; that is the point of Question Time. The clue is in the title.