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The Earl of Effingham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 March 2026

Debate

Small Businesses: VAT Threshold

Contribution

That is the 322nd time that noble Lords opposite have used the phrase “14 years”. Will they please listen to Sir Tony Blair, who said this week: “Labour’s policies are harming growth and undermining young people’s job prospects”? Does the Minister agree with Sir Keir Starmer, who said of the previous Government that they were lurching “from crisis to crisis and U-turn to U-turn … To correct one error, even two, might make sense. But when they’ve notched up 12 U-turns and rising, the only conclusion is serial incompetence”?

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