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Thu 22nd Mar 2012
Budget Leak Inquiry
Commons Chamber (Urgent Question)

Budget Leak Inquiry

Debate between David Gauke and David Evennett
Thursday 22nd March 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Evennett Portrait Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that there will obviously be wild speculation before any Budget, much of which turns out to be wrong, and that we do not need any lectures from Opposition Members, who leaked everything all the time when they were in government?

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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I do not think that we can draw a conclusion that there has been a decline in the standards of journalism just from the fact that in 2005 the predictions of what was in the Budget were more consistently accurate than in 2012.

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