Rail Fares

Part of Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 3:00 pm on 11 January 2012.

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Photo of Tom Harris Tom Harris Labour, Glasgow South 3:00, 11 January 2012

Since the Secretary of State spent some time talking not about rail fares but about the economic legacy of the last Labour

Government, I wish to make one brief point first. As an Opposition Member, she was a member of the shadow Treasury team and, up until November 2007, the Conservative party’s policy was to support every penny of spending made by the Labour Government. If she is claiming that the deficit that the Government inherited was created in the last 18 months of the Labour Government, that is something that the House would like to debate. She cannot pour scorn on the spending of that Government when she sat on the Opposition Front Bench and supported every penny. That is double standards. The Secretary of State shakes her head, and I am more than happy to give way if she wants to explain why she did not tell the then shadow Chancellor that he should not support Labour’s spending plans.