Debate on the Address Debate

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Debate on the Address

Mark Pritchard Excerpts
Wednesday 4th June 2014

(10 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ed Miliband Portrait Edward Miliband
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I am going to make a bit more progress.

We must debate, as a country, whether we should really be prepared to do something about the problem, and we need to debate the wider problem. Five million people in Britain—one in five of those in work—are now low paid. The shocking fact is that, for the first time on record, most of the people who are in poverty in Britain today are in work, not out of work.

Mark Pritchard Portrait Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin) (Con)
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I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that politics cannot be the same. In that spirit, will he be clear and transparent and rule out once and for all—should he enter Downing street, God forbid—any new tax on employment through increases in either employers’ or employees’ national insurance contributions?