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Clive Live in Parliament: Consolidated Fund Bill 20th July 2010

After Justine Greening the Economic Secretary refused to give way on a number of occasions the opposition benches joined in to let Clive have his say as he attacked this ideological budget which will see cutting the state back further than it was even in 1997.

1. Finance Bill (20th July 2010)

Clive's question transcript

I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, but will she accept this one point? Throughout the debate her party has argued that the state is too big. Everyone accepts that the Budget will cut the size of the state so that in six years, it will be smaller as a proportion of GDP than it was in 1997. Does that not suggest that it is an ideological move, and on that basis does she not accept that if the Tories had been elected in 1997, they would have come in cutting?