Philip Davies
Main Page: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)(12 years, 3 months ago)
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Vince Cable
I do not expect them to be terrified, but I do expect them to think a little more carefully about their wider responsibilities.
Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
I have heard some drivel in my time, but I do not think that in all my years in opposition did hear as much drivel from the Treasury Bench as I heard from the Secretary of State today. Businesses look to his Department for support and help. May I suggest that he gets off their backs and lets them create some wealth, and that he spends his time in his Department trying to sort out the massive problems of their own that the Government face without interfering in every business across the country?
Vince Cable
May I just gently suggest that my hon. Friend reads through the responses to the consultation, which are predominantly from businesses and investors advocating measures such the ones we are implementing? He might particularly want to examine the contribution of the CBI.