G20 Summit

Debate between Kwasi Kwarteng and Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton

Monday 25th June 2012 Commons Chamber

[Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne) (Con)]

What assessment has my right hon. Friend made of France’s deficit reduction plan?

[The Prime Minister]

I look carefully at what the French are both doing and saying and it seems to me that their plans to reduce their structural deficit are, if anything, more aggressive than our plans to reduce our structural deficit. I hear from the Opposition that we should learn lessons from France, and the fact is that the French have a deficit reduction programme, it is quite aggressive and they refer to the national debt as the enemy of France and the enemy of the left.