Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:48 pm on 27 November 2017.

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Photo of Emily Thornberry Emily Thornberry Shadow Foreign Secretary 5:48, 27 November 2017

The table on page 82 shows that only one of the 32 taxes listed will fall, and that is the bank levy. That tells us all we need to know about the Government’s priorities in the Budget.

As for what the Government’s plans are and what they are doing to the country, let me turn to the substance of the Budget and today’s theme of global Britain. In recent years the Treasury has taken great pleasure in writing a section of the Red Book entitled “The Global Economy”, which is usually used to trumpet the fact that Britain’s economy was the envy of the western world.