Following the emergency statement from the Treasury to try to calm the markets, Dame Harriett Baldwin reminds the House that the Government inherited the second-lowest debt in the G7 and asks why the Chancellor of the Exchequer has fled to China to avoid answering questions from MPs.

Dame Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) (Con)

In yesterday’s extraordinary emergency statement from the Treasury to try to calm the markets, it paid tribute to the fact that the Government inherited the second-lowest debt in the G7. Is the reason the Government Front Bench is so empty today and the Chancellor has fled to China that she has realised that her Budget means she now is the arsonist?

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