Finance (No. 3) Bill

Debate between Lyn Brown and Kerry McCarthy

Tuesday 5th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Lyn Brown (West Ham) (Lab)]

Enough now.

[Kerry McCarthy]

The Whip is telling me that we do not have time to reply to that point. It is a bit rich of the Economic Secretary to say that, when she made great play of going to Europe and saying that we would not accept any rise in the EU budget—there was a lot of grandstanding and playing to the crowd on that issue—and then her party’s MEPs tabled no proposals at all to tackle the issue. That is far more relevant to what we are discussing than something that happened many years ago.