George Freeman
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The Economy and Living Standards
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Ed Balls
I am happy to do so. I know that my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field), whom I respect a great deal, has a proposal, but that is not my proposal and it is not Labour’s proposal at all. We know that there are pressures in the national health service and that £3 billion has been wasted on an NHS reorganisation, but we also know that there is a cost of living crisis. People are paying hundreds of pounds more a year because of the Government’s VAT rise, and what we want to do is cut taxes for working people.
George Freeman (Mid Norfolk) (Con)
The shadow Chancellor mentioned the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field), who was quoted as saying,
“I can’t tell you what a good meeting I had”
with the shadow Chancellor about the jobs tax. Will he take the opportunity now in the House to confirm that the Labour party does not have a plan to introduce a jobs tax?