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Finance Bill

Proceeding contribution from Mike Thornton (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Monday, 1 July 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance Bill.

The hon. Gentleman talks about banking fraud. The laws that would have been broken would have been laws under the Labour

Government, and most of us do not believe in retrospective legislation. I agree with him that most bankers are decent people, but there have been exceptions. Unfortunately, those people did not actually break laws; they simply took appalling decisions with other people’s money, which I agree is a disgrace. As far as I know, however, we have seen no accusations of banking fraud; I could be wrong, but that is my understanding.

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2013-14
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House of Commons chamber
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