John Slinger, the Labour MP for Rugby, had earlier intervened in Ms McVey’s speech and said: “She’s making a very entertaining speech, as is often the case, but I would in the midst of all these words about tax, I would merely point out that after her party’s two unfunded national insurance tax cuts, after a £22 billion black hole based upon unfunded spending pledges and kicking the can down the road, what is (Ms McVey’s) suggestion for how to fill that devastating black hole?”.
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The Conservative MP replied that her party would not have spent money on the Government’s flagship Great British Energy renewables company, adding: “Foreign aid we would not have increased and I’ll tell you one thing we would not have done, collapsed to the rail unions, collapsed to them, find money for those railway workers without modernisation whatsoever.”.
Conservative former minister Wendy Morton also intervened, asking: “If you keep squeezing and squeezing, that money has to come from somewhere, so does that mean reduced public services, fewer, in this case, police officers, or is the burden going to come back on the taxpayer?”.
Ms McVey said: “The burden could well come back onto the taxpayer, but remember, it is tax, it is money that will be going on tax, a bill put on by the Government.
