Public Expenditure

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:49 pm on 21 December 1999.

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Photo of Sally Keeble Sally Keeble Labour, Northampton North 5:49, 21 December 1999

The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues constantly express a hard-right, Thatcherite view of the tax burden, but it is interesting to note that in 1985—I am sure that he will accept this—the tax burden was only 0.1 per cent. lower than it is now. That was during what he considers to be the heyday of his Government's policy of low taxation. His argument simply does not hold water.