Property Taxes

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts

Wednesday 3rd September 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I inform the House that I have not selected the amendment. I call the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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[Emily Darlington (Milton Keynes Central) (Lab)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Members cannot keep standing up and waving their hands in the air; the right hon. Gentleman has to give way.

[Emily Darlington]

What the right hon. Gentleman has said is not a fact. The reality in my region is that Milton Keynes, the Labour-run local authority, has lower taxes than all the surrounding Tory authorities, including in Northamptonshire, which has failed over and over again. Two Conservative and now Reform councils have failed, as has Buckinghamshire, while Milton Keynes has been labelled by the Local Government Association as one of the best-run councils. It still delivers lower council tax than all those Tory-run authorities.

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[Perran Moon (Camborne and Redruth) (Lab)]

The hypocrisy!

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I hope somebody did not use the word “hypocrisy”. I am sure that was not the case.

I call the Chief Secretary to the Treasury—and congratulations on your promotion.