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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 3:30 pm on 20 October 2008.

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Photo of Gordon Brown Gordon Brown The Prime Minister, Leader of the Labour Party 3:30, 20 October 2008

I hope that, on reflection, the hon. Gentleman, who is usually a moderate man, will realise the exaggerations that he has made. We have had the longest period of economic growth as a single Government, we have created 3 million jobs over the past 10 years and the reason we can face a world downturn with confidence that we can come through it, is that we have low debt and low interest rates, companies' funds outside the financial sector are strong and we are making the right long-term decisions for the future of this country. The decisions that we are making include decisions on transport and infrastructure, nuclear energy and planning. The unfortunate thing is that in all those major long-term decisions we have not had the support of the Conservative party.