Budget Resolutions Debate
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Jerome Mayhew
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Ed Miliband
The hon. Gentleman asks an important question; let me write to him with the detail on his point. We want as many people as possible across our country to benefit from this policy. By making different choices from those made in the past, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor is able to invest in the long term. She is delivering the highest levels of public investment that this country has seen in four decades.
Jerome Mayhew (Broadland and Fakenham) (Con)
At the last general election, the Secretary of State and all his colleagues said that they would raise taxes by £7 billion, and that their plans were fully funded and costed. What democratic mandate does he claim to have for increasing taxes by £66 billion, and debt by a further £70 billion?
Ed Miliband
The mandate that the British people voted for was a mandate to change this country, given the problems that we inherited from the last Government.