Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1999.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his reference to Asda. If the shadow Chancellor were to talk to the person from Asda, who is also a Conservative Member, he would hear him say about the Budget:
We'd welcome the help for small business. I think that's good. We'd welcome the reduction in corporation tax and lower corporation tax for small business. That's good … everyone in the country is dead keen on it"—
employee share ownership—
and that's good. Overall, not a bad business Budget.
Those are the words of the vice-chairman of the Conservative party.