Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:13 pm on 29 January 2020.
Thank you for taking it. Obviously, we will have expressions of our views during this motion, but repeating the fallacy that the austerity post 2010, post the financial collapse, was the result of spending by the Labour Government is economically disproven; it is factually incorrect. At the time, just before the financial crash, borrowing was 35.7 per cent of GDP, which was 0.1 per cent above that when Labour took office in 1997. Now, you can put your arguments, but it is factually incorrect. The financial crash was not the result of the Labour Government, and I think it's a misrepresentation, and it's unfair for you to continue to repeat that.