Peter Fortune

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse—I think for the first time. I congratulate the hon. Member for Jarrow and Gateshead East (Kate Osborne) on securing this debate to recognis

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—the renationalisation of the railways is not working. [ Laughter. ] The Drayson partitions exist to ensure that costs which the UK must meet and cannot change, such as

The hon. Gentleman is being too generous: he plays cricket; I sort of stand there and get hit by the ball. One has to look at taxation in the round, and if we look at the impact of things like the nat

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: you tax something to stop it happening, and if you tax jobs, they stop being created.

Labour Members are proving once again that they are desperate to talk about the past because they have no plan for the future. Talking about the pubs in my constituency, we have seen a significant dec

You cannot tax your way to prosperity—that is something that I, as a Conservative, believe. Not only do I believe it, but it has been demonstrated time and again in countries across the globe. When th