Nicky Morgan beats Rees Mogg for Chair of Treasury Select Commitee

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"Nicky Morgan, the former cabinet minister, has won the contest to chair parliament’s influential Treasury select committee, beating the arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg to position herself as a thorn in the side of the government’s plans for leaving the EU.

The former Treasury minister and education secretary was elected against Rees-Mogg, her nearest rival, by MPs across all parties. But she had particular backing from those on the Labour benches who want to stop May’s hardline Brexit plan to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice.

Her victory means a prominent advocate of a soft Brexit will lead scrutiny of the direction of the government’s economic policy as it grapples with the impact of leaving the EU, a worsening economic outlook and pressure on Philip Hammond, the chancellor, to ease austerity."

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...rees-mogg-in-vote-to-chair-treasury-committee

This simply highlights the left's logic. You're demanding an end to austerity which will inevitably lead to an increased debt burden for our children and grandchildren and at the same time, you're demanding an end to university tuition fees because of the debt burden it places on our children and grandchildren!

You may not of noticed but we want to place the costs on Corporation tax thats not debt but appropriate taxation and borrowing to invest will increase our productivety and reduce debt and austerity

You're getting this from a man whom Ken Livingstone sacked for cooking the books! It may be an inconvenient truth but since the Conservatives lowered the rate of Corporation Tax, the amount of revenue generated has increased. And how will "borrowing to invest will increase our productivety and reduce debt and austerity"?

I suspect some in the Labour camp are relying on Magic Mushrooms as well as Magic Money Trees!

You might be suprised how many folk are rejecting the Tory nightmare of never ending winter while there mates are away sunning themselves

I recall that Mark announced that Rees-Mogg would be the next chair of the committee.

Sorry about that. But not very sorry, as I don't want that vile fanatic anywhere near any position where he can influence anything.