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!
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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.