Graham Stuart

Graham Stuart

Conservative — Beverley and Holderness

Speaking in the House of Commons on 11 November 2026

Debate

Employers

Contribution

I am afraid that I must disagree with my hon. Friend. I do not think the Labour Government were gaslighting the nation. So little is their understanding of business and their ability to read an Office for Budget Responsibility analysis that they did not realise that the nearly £27 billion hit on the nation’s economy would lead to a nearly £20 billion reduction in the money that ordinary people get in their pay packets, and that the net receipt to the Treasury would be about half that—about £10 billion. They cannot add up. Perhaps my hon. Friend needs to acknowledge that they have that disability.

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