SNP MPs could be heard laughing in the House of Commons after Labour’s Ian Murray raised the “random constituency” of Rutherglen and…
John Lamont, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Tory MP and parliamentary under secretary for the Scotland Office, claimed that the economic challenges faced by the UK were due to the war in Ukraine and Covid pandemic during the exchange.“Ukraine or Covid didn't crash the economy, this government did,” Murray, Scottish Labour's only MP for Edinburgh South, said.
“The government who crashed the economy are asking working people to pay for it, and the Scottish Government who mismanaged the economy are also asking working people to pay for it. “There is a Tory premium on everyone's mortgages and rents alongside the highest tax burden on working people in 80 years, and the SNP wants to increase income taxes further proposing a watering council tax rates on those residents “So don’t the residents of Rutherglen and Hamilton West deserve a fresh start with Scottish Labour's Michael Shanks?”The Scottish Labour MP also neglected to point out that South Lanarkshire council, where the constituency is located, is a Labour...
In response, Lamont said: “It was not so long ago that Scottish Labour were calling for even higher taxes on the people of Scotland.
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