Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Dan Tomlinson and Rupert Lowe

Tuesday 9th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Dan Tomlinson]

I am happy to speak to my hon. Friend about the issues that she raises in her constituency.

[Rupert Lowe (Great Yarmouth) (Ind)]

The Chancellor has embarked on a Fabian programme of brutal tax-and-spend economics that might please the dwindling number of Labour voters, but is hollowing out the nation’s productive base. Those who take risks, invest long term and create high-quality jobs are increasingly voting with their feet. Record numbers of top earners—the rain-makers who actually bankroll public services—are leaving the UK for good, taking their wealth and, more importantly, their brain power with them. Does the Chancellor even begin to understand the lasting and irreversible damage that she is causing to the British economy?