Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Marsha De Cordova Excerpts
Wednesday 15th May 2019

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I think that the best way to ensure that people have a good, stable income for their families is to ensure that they are in work. This is the fourth question he has asked me, and in none of his questions so far has he welcomed the fact that employment is at record levels, and unemployment is down at a record low. The way he talks, you would think that inequality started in 2010.

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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One of the Labour Back Benchers shouts from a sedentary position, “It did!” Who was it who said that the last Labour Government

“ensured that the gap between the richest and the poorest in our society”

became “very much bigger?” Those are not my words; they are the words of the right hon. Gentleman, attacking his own Labour Government.