I am grateful to the Chancellor for giving way. My constituents will be pleased to hear what he has said about not increasing VAT above 17.5 per cent. after we start to out of this recession. Would he acknowledge, however, that Britain subsidises a number of EU countries and that our membership costs us many hundreds of thousands of jobs, and probably up to about £50 billion? Is it not time to start clawing that back?
Pre-Budget Report
Proceeding contribution from
Bob Spink
(Independent (affiliation))
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 November 2008.
It occurred during Emergency debate on Pre-Budget Report.
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