Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grant Shapps and Sharon Hodgson

Thursday 29th April 2021 Commons Chamber

[Grant Shapps]

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight the threat. I wonder whether everybody realises that the Mayor of London would like to introduce this border tax, so that non-Londoners end up having to pay for his financial mismanagement of London. It is not on. It is called taxation without representation and, as our American cousins used to point out, that is tyranny.

[Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West) (Lab)]

What assessment he has made of the potential merits of the full reopening of the Leamside line.