The richest 1% give everyone else ‘quite a good deal’, Tory MP says during poverty debate

‘The richest 1% give everyone else in Britain “quite a good deal”, a Conservative MP has argued.

Speaking during a parliamentary debate on poverty, Chris Heaton-Harris said his party’s approach to Britain’s wealthiest was a key dividing line with the opposition.

“I guess there will always be a difference in politics between the two sides in this debate—I think that 1% of people paying 30% of income tax is actually quite a good deal for 99% of people, but let us put that to one side,” the MP for Daventry said.’

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