(14 years, 5 months ago)
Commons ChamberMy hon. Friend is right that the key is helping people into jobs, yet the Budget cuts the number of people in work, increases the number of people on the dole, cuts the help for people to get back to work, as well as cutting the income of carers and the severely disabled, cuts help for kids, and hits the elderly with a VAT hike. Nothing in the Budget will get a single extra person back to work. Instead, it cuts the number of people in work.
To what degree does the right hon. Lady believe that the previous Labour Government were responsible for the massive budget deficit that we face?