In the context of global free trade and, in particular, the judgment of the international financial markets, does the Foreign Secretary not accept that since 23 June our economy has slipped from fifth biggest to sixth biggest, and that those markets have deflated its value by 15%, which is why we have devalued and everyone’s wages and all our assets are 15% lower? That is not a success; it is a failure.
Budget Resolutions
Proceeding contribution from
Geraint Davies
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 March 2017.
It occurred during Budget debate on Budget Resolutions.
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