division_name: Economy and Jobs
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c776.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech fails to end austerity in public services, to reverse falling living standards and to make society more equal; further regret that it contains no reference to an energy price cap and call on the Government to legislate for such a cap at the earliest opportunity; call on the Government to commit to a properly resourced industrial strategy to increase infrastructure investment in every nation and region of the UK; recognise that no deal on Brexit is the very worst outcome and therefore call on the Government to negotiate an outcome that prioritises jobs and the economy, delivers the exact same benefits the UK has as a member of the Single Market and the Customs Union, ensures that there is no weakening of cooperation in security and policing, and maintains the existing rights of EU nationals living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU; believe that those who are richest and large corporations, those with the broadest shoulders, should pay more tax, while more is done to clamp down on tax avoidance and evasion; call for increased funding in public services to expand childcare, scrap tuition fees at universities and colleges and restore Education Maintenance Allowance, maintenance grants and nurses&#8217; bursaries; regret that with inflation rising, living standards are again falling; and call on the Government to end the public sector pay cap and increase the minimum wage to a real living wage of &#163;10 per hour by 2020.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c776.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My Ministers will strengthen the economy so that it supports the creation of jobs&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c777.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to invest in the National Health Service, schools, and other public services&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c777.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;of which we are proud.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c781.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Now is a good time to invest in genuinely productivity-enhancing infrastructure, and to take advantage of low borrowing costs and our ability to borrow&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c784.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;unacknowledged risks to the quality of public services&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c787.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;much of the cost is likely to be passed to workers through lower wages or consumers through higher prices&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c787.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The argument from this Labour manifesto that only the rich will pay, I don&#8217;t think it stacks up. From opposition, you can say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry, someone else will pay&#8217;&#8211;but you can&#8217;t do that in government.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c788.7/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;certainly shouldn&#8217;t plan on their stated tax increases raising more than &#163;40 billion in the short run, and more likely than not they would raise less than that. They would certainly raise considerably less in the longer term.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c800.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the latest forecast is that the UK will be the fastest growing of any of the G7 economies&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-04">4 June</phrase> 2015; Vol. 596, c. 797.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c801.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;biggest increase in inequality since Thatcher'&#8221;;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c801.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;More and more people within the money advice sector already attest to the growing prevalence of debts that are directly related to living costs. People who are borrowing not out of recklessness, but because their level of income cannot sustain a socially acceptable standard of living&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c802.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;weak processes are leading to the wrong projects and contested decisions, wasting both government time and taxpayer money.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c807.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a sense&#8212;deep, profound and let&#8217;s face it often justified&#8212;that&#8230;the world works well for a privileged few, but not for them.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c807.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am making this promise: if I am re-elected on June 8, I will take action&#8230;by introducing a cap on unfair energy price rises&#8230;It will protect around 17 million families.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c819.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;households using food banks are&#8230;three times more likely to contain someone with a disability than other low income households&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c819.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The people using food banks are groups who have been most affected by recent welfare reforms: people with disabilities, lone parents and large family households.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c824.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We know that rising income inequality in the UK cost us 9 percentage points in the growth rate of GDP per capita between 1990 and 2010&#8212;that&#8217;s approximately &#163;100bn. Taking action on inequalities is not just the right thing to do&#8212;it&#8217;s the economically sensible thing to do.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c827.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c842.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;earnings will be no higher in 2022 than they were in 2007&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c842.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will work to attract investment in infrastructure&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c842.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;weakest&#8230;business investment in half a century&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c842.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;seek to enhance rights&#8230;in the&#8230;workplace.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c844.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we&#8230;have far more in common&#8230;than things that divide us.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-03">3 June</phrase> 2015; Vol. 596, c. 675.]</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c844.0/17" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="c844.0/18" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 297, Noes 323.</p>