Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:35 pm on 16 March 2005.

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Photo of John Bercow John Bercow Conservative, Buckingham 4:35, 16 March 2005

I do not lightly take offence at the gratuitous observations of the hon. Gentleman, but I cannot resist the temptation to put it on the record at the outset of his speech, first, that I am not a toff; secondly, so far as I can recall I have never visited a City boardroom during the time that I have been a Member of Parliament; and, thirdly, I and many of my colleagues have been preoccupied with identifying ways in which to reduce the tax burden on the poorest people in the country, because we think we ought to help most those who have least.