Welfare Reform and Work Bill

Debate between Owen Smith and David Anderson

Tuesday 27th October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Owen Smith]

I have given way once. I will move on and give way again in a moment.

[Mr David Anderson (Blaydon) (Lab)]

My hon. Friend the Member for Wansbeck (Ian Lavery) mentioned the word “bribe”. Is not the real bribe in the Bill the bribe that will be given to the children of dead millionaires through the changes to inheritance tax, to the detriment of the people who will be hit by tax credit cuts?

[Owen Smith]

I am glad I gave way, because my hon. Friend makes the excellent point that politics is always a choice. Politics is about priorities. Politics is about who we stand up for, who we speak for and whose side we are on. It is very, very clear that, in the Bill and in this House, the Conservative party is on the side of millionaires and the wealthy, and are standing up against the ordinary working people of Britain, who will not forgive them for doing so.