Debates between Barry Gardiner and Keir Starmer during the 2019 Parliament

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Debate between Barry Gardiner and Keir Starmer
Thursday 8th September 2022

(1 year, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Keir Starmer Portrait Keir Starmer
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We are talking about what happens this winter and next. If the hon. Gentleman does not understand—[Interruption.] I will tell him something. Every pound the Prime Minister’s Government refuse to raise in windfall taxes, which is leaving billions on the table, is an extra pound of borrowing. That is the simple, straightforward argument. Every pound that she leaves on the table is an extra pound of borrowing, loading the burden of the cost of living crisis onto working people who will have to pay back for years to come.

Barry Gardiner Portrait Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister has been careful to frame her guarantee in terms of her refusal to tax, but will she not have a problem explaining to the British people how a levy on their bills in the future to repay the borrowing is not actually a tax?