Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert tweeted yesterday:
In chamber listening to Finance Bill debate. Labour trying to reduce (!) capital gains rate from 28% to 25%. No, I don’t understand why!
Subscribe
-
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
-
Like us on Facebook
-
Subscribe to our feed
-
Sign-up for our daily email digest
Most Read
Search
Op-eds
-
Winning Britain’s Cities: A Liberal Vision for Urban Britain (Patrick Stillman)
-
Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
-
Observations of an Expat: Canada (Tom Arms)
-
Remember why we started: What the Hong Kong Alliance case means for Hong Kong’s future (Arthur Wu)
-
Are the Liberal Democrats invisible? (Veronica-Mae Soar)
-
Gareth Epps and the quiet lanes of Oxfordshire
-
Government says it won't tackle election turnout blindspot
-
The ongoing cost of Brexit
-
After Dark podcast: Dr Louise Brangan on the Magdalene laundries
-
Dunston fair video
-
The Joy of Six 1569
-
Marjory Allen encounters the ban on child actors in British films
-
Wyn Griffith and David Lloyd George
-
Etran de L'Aïr: Imouha
-
DNA Methylation Clocks - what utility do they have?
Recent Comments
Peter Hirst
If the political make up of the eu changes significantly would we be better to have stayed in? It probably depends whether you are more interested in global or ...- Peter Hirst
An agreement with other countries to coordinate action when their interests collide would be a useful addition to the array of groups, organisations and bodies ... - Peter Hirst
Our political strategy as I understand it does not make it easy for us to have a single message that gives us the publicity we need. We can talk about empowerme... 
Mahmood Faiz
As someone from the Kashmiri community and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Kashmir, I believe there is a significant opportunity for the Liberal Democr...- Peter Hirst
Our defence policy should be centred around fostering our relationships with countries that have shared interests, values and where we can make a meaninful cont...
8 Comments
Why do MPs in the Chameber have time to tweet? Should that not be banned?
Tris: why do you think they don’t have time to do that alongside following the business that is going one? I’ve been at plenty of events where I’ve both being following events and also sent tweets, and I’ve no reason to think MPs can’t also do what I managed 🙂
Given his tweet was yesterday, any chance of the link to Hansard?
As was explained by Stephen Timms in moving the amendment, it was a probing amendment to inquire about the processes which led the Government to choose to set the rate of CGT at 28%. I know Mr Huppert is a new MP but I would have thought he was knowledgable enough to know what a probing amendment is.
Its a high risk probing amendment then. Labour’s opponents can now say they wanted a lower rate of CGT and sought to amend the budget accordingly.
@James Graham: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm100712/debtext/100712-0003.htm 9:30 pm
Chris: “Labour’s opponents can now say they wanted a lower rate of CGT”
But since Timms stated clearly that “we will not vote… for the lower figure proposed in the three amendments”, anybody who knew this yet claimed or implied that Labour wanted a lower rate of CGT would be extremely dishonest, wouldn’t they?
A more important mystery is why so many Liberal Democrats felt Andrew George’s sensible amendment requesting an impact assessment of the VAT rise was unacceptable.