(14 years, 6 months ago)
Commons ChamberI am pleased to hear from my hon. Friend and I wish him well in his new role as the new Chairman of that Committee.
May I welcome the former Minister’s conversion to a balanced economy? In that past 13 years, the previous Government virtually destroyed manufacturing industry and hung their coats on the financial industry, so this country went down. My constituency has lost hundreds of jobs in manufacturing industry because of the economic policies of the previous Government.