Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

George Freeman Excerpts
Tuesday 6th March 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Danny Alexander Portrait Danny Alexander
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There is a very simple mechanism going on in the economy: the hon. Gentleman’s party caused the mess and we are cleaning it up.

George Freeman Portrait George Freeman (Mid Norfolk) (Con)
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Has my right hon. Friend seen the report in today’s Times saying that on his appointment the shadow Chancellor apparently turned to the Leader of the Opposition and asked:

“What if George Osborne is right?”

Does not the news of the jobs in Nissan, along with the 500,000 jobs created in the economy and our low interest rates, prove that he is?

Danny Alexander Portrait Danny Alexander
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I have not seen that report, but I can tell my hon. Friend that it is not a question I have asked myself.