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Amendment of the law

The hon. Gentleman shakes his head—is he denying it? Oh, so it is his policy. He does not really want to talk about that policy. The shadow shadow Chancellor gave him the opportunity to dump it, but what did he do? He pushed the right hon. and learned Gentleman to issue a statement saying that actually he got it completely wrong and that that was the priority at this stage of the recession. The shadow Chancellor rolls his eyes from a sedentary position, but it is a fair question to ask: does he really think that spending some £600 million on the richest estates in the country, on millionaires, is the right priority at the moment? [Interruption.] He is talking from a sedentary position; I am happy for him to intervene to say that he thinks that spending that £600 million, given all the competing pressures on public spending and tax, is the right thing to do. He has suddenly gone a bit coy. I do not think that he really wants to say that it is the right priority.