Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Queen’s Speech: Implications for Wales - July 19
Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:05
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd) (Lab):...Many families in Wales, and
indeed the UK, are financially worse off than they were 10 years
ago. On average, a family is £1,400 worse off. Voters are sick to
their hind teeth with austerity, which does not work. Low and
middle-income earners are taking all the pain, and the high-income
earners are making all the gain. Even Tory Ministers now accept
Labour’s analysis of austerity. Our manifesto promised investment,
reward for hard work and, most of all,...Request free trial
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(Lab):...Many families in Wales, and indeed the UK, are
financially worse off than they were 10 years ago. On average, a
family is £1,400 worse off. Voters are sick to their hind teeth
with austerity, which does not work. Low and middle-income earners
are taking all the pain, and the high-income earners are making all
the gain. Even Tory Ministers now accept Labour’s analysis of
austerity. Our manifesto promised investment, reward for hard work
and, most of all, hope. It made a commitment to work with the Welsh
Government to tolls on the Severn bridge—I pay tribute to my hon.
Friend the Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden), who
highlighted that—and pledged to end years of Tory under-investment
in national rail infrastructure. We promised to commit more than
£700 million from a national transformation fund to fund
electrification of the Great
Western main line to Swansea. That was highlighted by
my hon. Friends the Members for Ogmore (Chris Elmore) and for
Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock)...
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