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Debate between Jack Dromey and Mel Stride(7 years ago)
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Mel Stride
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 (Birmingham, Erdington) (Lab)
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?