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Thomas Docherty
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Thomas Docherty Excerpts(13 years, 8 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. People up and down the country will be completely amazed that the party that is supposedly meant to stand up for working people thinks that it is okay to get more on benefits than a family gets from working. So let me give the Opposition one more go. Are you with us in the Lobby tonight? Absolutely hopeless.
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife) (Lab)
Q10. It is now clear that the single biggest funder of the Prime Minister’s party got his peerage on false pretences. Can the Prime Minister guarantee that Lord Ashcroft has now told the whole truth about his connections with the building company Johnson International, or is it yet again one rule for the Prime Minister’s rich friends and another rule for everyone else?
The Prime Minister
I have answered that question many times, but I might point out to the hon. Gentleman that the largest funder of his party has been based offshore.