Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Defence)
Scottish National Party MP for Angus and Perthshire Glens
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Scottish National Party MP for Angus and Perthshire Glens
Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election
Also represented Angus
SNP MPs only attend sittings where the legislation pertains to Scotland.
The first line of the Tories’ motion gets to the word “manifesto”, and I accept their premise that that is what this is about—it is about the commitment “not to increase taxes on working people, and not to increase National Insurance or the basic, higher or additional rates of Income Tax”. I do not think that is a tall order. The next item on the list, however, is VAT. Never mind...
That is a welcome and comprehensive round-up of some of the broader issues on this, but it speaks to the fiscal innumeracy that says, “There is no cost to any of this; we can just help ourselves to that and it won’t have any impact.” As the right hon. Member for Wetherby and Easingwold (Sir Alec Shelbrooke) pointed out, if we speak to any rural plant sales or dealership, and they will...
Yes, it had to come, and I am relieved that there is a cleavage. Where I diverge with them is on a wealth tax. I see that we are in a state—the UK is not a country—where poverty levels among our children are rising in every country in the UK except Scotland. In Scotland, it costs us £150 million a year—it will be £200 million by the end of the decade—to mitigate Westminster’s...
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