Christopher Pincher Speaks on Economy at PMQ’s

During yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons, Tamworth MP Christopher Pincher, spoke on the continued improvement in the economy both in Tamworth and around the country and said those calling for plan B should stop.

Mr Pincher said, “Since we last met there has been a spate of good economic news, both in Tamworth and around the country.  Unemployment is down and the economy is growing.  Manufacturing is up, exports are up and construction is up. Is it not time for those who still propose it to stop messing around, give it up and abandon plan B?”

The Prime Minister replied, “My hon. Friend makes an important point.  We have had welcome news over the summer: exports are up 5.8% on a year ago, business confidence is at its highest level since January 2008, consumer confidence is up and all the figures on construction, manufacturing and services are going in the right direction.  We must not be complacent, these are early days, but it is because of the tough decisions that this Government took that we can now see progress.

“We ought to remember that Labour Members told us that unemployment would go up, but it has come down, and that the economy would go backwards, but it has gone forwards. It is time for them to explain that they were wrong and we were right.”