Economic Policy Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Economic Policy

Julie Hilling Excerpts
Monday 25th February 2013

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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We would have the same outcome as happened to the kamikaze pilots.

Julie Hilling Portrait Julie Hilling (Bolton West) (Lab)
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The Chancellor says that he will not run away from dealing with the country’s debts. When will he accept that the debts have actually run away with him, and that he has got no answers? When will he resign?

George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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We are confronting the problems that the hon. Lady’s party left this country. If she is seriously trying to blame us for the fact that there was an 11.5% budget deficit, or for a financial crisis that was brewing while the shadow Chancellor was regulating the City, she needs to read her history books.