Fuel Prices and the Cost of Living

Geraint Davies Excerpts

Wednesday 16th March 2011 Commons Chamber

[Justine Greening]

And a huge fiscal deficit and debt to boot, so we will take no lectures from the Labour party. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can discuss with the shadow Chancellor how he thinks the huge deficit that his party left our country—it costs us £120 million a day to service our debt interest—should be addressed. The elephant in the room, which we have not talked about so far today because it is not in the Opposition’s motion, is how they would tackle the deficit. The answer is that they would not tackle it, which is why it is so lucky that Labour is not in government at the moment.

[Geraint Davies (Swansea West) (Lab/Co-op)]

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[Ms Angela Eagle]

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