Debates between Andrew Gwynne and Eddie Hughes during the 2017-2019 Parliament

Thu 1st Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions
Commons Chamber

1st reading: House of Commons

Budget Resolutions

Debate between Andrew Gwynne and Eddie Hughes
1st reading: House of Commons
Thursday 1st November 2018

(6 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Gwynne Portrait Andrew Gwynne
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The hon. Gentleman was clearly not listening. It is in our amendment and was in our manifesto at the last general election. We mean the people in the top 5% of incomes, and Labour’s amendment sets out the changes to income taxation that we would introduce in order to achieve that.

Eddie Hughes Portrait Eddie Hughes (Walsall North) (Con)
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Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the people who are in the income bracket that he describes are likely to be the most mobile and will therefore simply take their wealth somewhere else?

Andrew Gwynne Portrait Andrew Gwynne
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It is interesting that Conservative Members seem not to want a fair taxation system whereby those who have done the best out of society can pay back into society.