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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

I thank the right hon. Lady for giving way, and I will tell her what I say to the people in my constituency. The picture she is painting suggests it is all okay out there, but in the real world in my constituency and across the country thousands of young people, and older people, are without jobs, and thousands of small businesses, to which people have dedicated their lives, have gone under. What I am telling them, and what I tell this House now, is that that is the fault of this Labour Government. The right hon. Lady is speaking as though she had not been in government for 13 years, but people out there in the real world know it is the fault of the Labour Government, and she must stop pretending.