Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:07 pm on 23 November 2017.

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Photo of Sajid Javid Sajid Javid The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 1:07, 23 November 2017

I think the hon. Gentleman should speak to the leader of his own party, who stood at the Dispatch Box yesterday claiming that it was his policy from his manifesto. The hon. Gentleman needs to go and do some homework.

When Labour came to power in 1997, the average home cost three and a half times the average wage. By the time it slunk out of office in 2010, it was nearly seven times the average wage. As for the neediest in society, Labour cut the number of social homes for rent by more than 420,000 units. That is its track record.