Danny Beales

Danny Beales

Labour — Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Speaking in the House of Commons on 4 December 2024

Debate

Employer National Insurance Contributions

Contribution

The issue at the crux of the debate is one of economic responsibility. It is about a choice whether to invest or to let further decline take place in our public services. They say a week is a long time in politics. Well, four months is clearly still not long enough for the Conservatives to have learned any lessons from the last general election about why they might be sitting on the Opposition Benches and we might be sitting on the Government Benches. They crashed the economy, wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers’ hard-earned money and ran the NHS into the ground. They then called an early election to run away from the mess that they knew this Government would inherit. As legislators, we need to be honest with the electorate about the trade-offs and challenges this country faces, and we cannot simultaneously rebuild our public services and cut taxes at the same time. As has been said, there is no magic money tree—we saw with the disastrous Liz Truss mini-Budget the impacts of a Government who do not understand those facts.

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