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Lord Dobbs (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 July 2025

Debate

Taxes

Contribution

My Lords, I understand why the Minister refuses to give hypotheticals on forthcoming tax. However, this Government made a clear commitment not to introduce taxes on working people. They have looked very much like a fish on the end of a hook over the last 12 months when trying to define what a working person is. Perhaps they should have thought about that before they made such a clear, binding commitment. Without being hypothetical, does the Minister agree with the Chancellor, who, during that election campaign, defined working people as “people who go out to work and work for their incomes … There are people who do have savings, who have been able to save up, and those are working people as well”? Does the Minister stand by that commitment?

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