Pensioner Poverty

Part of Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 4:30 pm on 4 June 2008.

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Photo of Nigel Waterson Nigel Waterson Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions 4:30, 4 June 2008

The Minister chastised us for postponing the debate. I remind him that the last time it was fixed, then pulled, it was because we thought a debate on Burma was more urgent. I think that that was the right decision.

What is significant is that the Conservative Opposition have called a debate on pensioner poverty and on the record of a Labour Government, who have failed so dismally. Does not that strike the Minister as a sign of the way in which politics has changed in recent years?