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Living Standards

The answer, very simply, is that, yes, it would be. Yesterday, there was much jeering about the issue of Europe. The Opposition say one thing one day, move on and then say another. I remind the shadow Chancellor, who is not here today, of something he said in July:"““We need to face up to today's problems. When you see Italian and Spanish bond spreads you can see the situation is incredibly dangerous””—" and that came from a man who yesterday said that we cannot blame anything on the European crisis. That is absurd, and the Opposition must get their act together over the reasons we are where we are.