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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

I agree on the latter point. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State mentioned—everybody knows this—there will be cuts in expenditure other than that on front-line services, which I want my Government to defend. This afternoon, I want to go back a little bit further and say what the Government have done over the past decade in my constituency. There have not just been new schools. I want to talk about manufacturing. The Opposition Front Benchers, both yesterday and today, just discounted what the Government have done in the real world and the real economy in the past 10 years.