Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Nick Boles Excerpts
Wednesday 21st March 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I always appreciate the Prime Minister’s gratitude.

Nick Boles Portrait Nick Boles (Grantham and Stamford) (Con)
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Q12. For 10 years or more, leading Conservatives such as Lord Saatchi and Lord Tebbit have argued for working people and pensioners on low incomes to be taken out of income tax altogether. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this is a thoroughly Conservative idea whose time has well and truly arrived?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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What I would say to my hon. Friend is that, almost uniquely, I am not going to prejudge what is in the Chancellor’s Budget. However, I think that we can say that it is—if you like, Mr Speaker—a kaleidoscope Budget.