My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I say rhetorically—I stress the adverb ““rhetorically?, because I do not want any misunderstanding—that the Conservative Government did not want people going out to the local hospital, because every year there was a winter crisis, such as we have not had for several years, and they did not want them going out and voting Labour, either, so they told them to stay at home.
Finance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Rob Marris
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 23 April 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance Bill.
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