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Photo of Denis MacShane Denis MacShane Labour, Rotherham 4:04, 8 November 2011

In 1995 I moved an amendment to the Finance Bill proposing exactly what my hon. Friend suggests, but an hon. Friend who later became the Chancellor of the Exchequer and is now my right hon. Friend Mr Darling wrote through it with red ink, “No new taxes”, so the idea died the death some 15 years ago. I agree with my hon. Friend Chris Leslie, but let us not make the best the enemy of the good. If we get this thing going, we are getting something going that will help people. Waiting for everybody in the world to sign up to it will involve a very long wait.