Finance (No. 2) Bill Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Finance (No. 2) Bill

Dan Carden Excerpts
2nd reading: House of Commons
Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Peter Dowd Portrait Peter Dowd
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With the greatest respect, I am not the hon. Gentleman’s research assistant. I refer him to Labour’s proposals in “Funding Britain’s Future”. I know that he can read, so I suggest that he should go and have a look at that document.

The Brexiteers in the Cabinet continue to undermine any attempts to progress the talks and compromise with our European partners. We had a bizarre scenario today—everyone telling the Prime Minister how wonderful she was. Last week she was a basket case, as far as I could tell, but this week she is a wonderful woman. The Brexiteers are happy to continue to create economic uncertainty to the detriment of businesses and workers alike.

Dan Carden Portrait Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton) (Lab)
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Was my hon. Friend surprised, as I was, that the Financial Secretary did not mention wages once? He did not mention that real wages will not return to pre-crash levels for almost a decade. Do this Government care about people’s wages?