Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:47 pm on 15 March 2017.
I would like to thank the Welsh Conservatives for giving me an opportunity to rise in this debate to highlight the actual work of the Welsh Labour Government. It would be equally remiss of me to start without mentioning ‘Spreadsheet Phil’ even further from today’s announcements. The Tory UK Government Chancellor last week caused absolute outrage with one of the most naked broken promises in politics—a broken promise that would cause even Nick Clegg to blush. It is not often in this Chamber that I will ever, I hope, quote David Cameron, but I’ll give it a go. He tweeted on 25 March in 2015,
‘I've ruled out raising VAT. Why won't Ed Miliband rule out raising National Insurance contributions? Labour always puts up the Jobs Tax.’