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Part of Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 July 2017.

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Photo of Theresa May Theresa May The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party 12:00, 5 July 2017

I will tell the right hon. Gentleman what has happened over the past seven years. We have seen record numbers of people in employment—nearly 3 million more people in work. We have seen the introduction of the national living wage—never done by Labour, but introduced by a Conservative Government. We have seen 4 million people taken out of paying income tax altogether and a cut in income tax and a change in the personal allowance that is the equivalent of £1,000 a year to basic rate taxpayers, including nurses. That is a record of good management of the economy—you only get that with the Conservatives.