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Proceeding contribution from George Osborne (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Autumn Statement.

Autumn Statement

It was the Labour Government who let the City explode. They allowed that to happen when the shadow Chancellor was the City Minister. They had 13 years to regulate the City and I suspect that on not one occasion did the hon. Lady write to either Tony Blair or the last Prime Minister calling for that regulation. The Labour party presided over the biggest financial crisis in our country's history. We are properly regulating the banks and introducing ring-fencing. We have brought in a permanent bank tax and transparency in bankers' pay. None of those things existed in the 13 years of Labour Government.

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Proceeding contribution
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536 c832 
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2010-12
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House of Commons chamber
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