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Department: HM Treasury

Paradise Papers

Jack Dromey Excerpts
Monday 6th November 2017

(7 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We hear a lot of talk from the Opposition, but I am afraid that the results of what they did—or, rather, what they did not do—when they had their turn in office speak for themselves.

Jack Dromey Portrait Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington) (Lab)
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Does the Minister not recognise that it is obscene that rich people should seek to get even richer by salting away their billions in offshore bank accounts, while working people suffer the longest stagnation of wages for 150 years?