7. 5. Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Autumn Statement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:10 pm on 7 December 2016.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 5:10, 7 December 2016

No, there’s a point of disagreement that we have. We can deal with exploitation of workers by dealing with exploitation of all workers. We can deal in a proper way, in a reasonable way, with controlled and well-managed migration. But let us not place all the evils that have been highlighted by Mark Carney and other informed commentators on immigrants. Please. We had today, out here, a large event with refugees who are here, present in Wales. Let’s not lay at their doorstep the ills of the world, because the ills of the world are in the way in which we have an imbalanced economy where the very wealthy benefit, and the very well off are looked after. In the rules of the game and in the autumn statement they benefit. It’s the poorest in society and it’s the poorest in your constituency and mine and others’, who get the brunt of this. It’s not the immigrants. It is the way that we are running the rules of the game.

Now I would have liked—[Interruption.]