Motion of Regret on the Budget Process

That this House express regret that:

(1) Certain parties such as the Conservative and Unionist Party were not approached by the Government to give feedback on the budget or asked if they would be interested in sponsoring it.

(2) In light of the well-publicised mistakes made by the Government, to the tune of multiple tens of billions of pounds, that advice was not sought to ensure the economic soundness of the budget.

(3) The Government has refused to implement the recommendations of the Lords Committee on Government Economic Responsibility, established and designed to help the Government succeed economically.

This Motion was written by The Most Honourable 1st Marquess of St Ives, The 1st Earl of St Erth, Sir /u/Sephronar KBE CT LVO PC on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party

Opening Speech:

Deputy Speaker,

With the Budget due imminently, I am disappointed that the Chancellor and Government have chosen not to approach a number of parties for feedback on the budget throughout this whole process - indeed we in the Conservatives were pleased to submit a shadow budget with the Liberal Democrat expertise which admittedly did not pass thanks to the Government and Opposition teaming up, and yet again they are teaming up on this budget but ignoring that a democracy is made of many different colours that aren’t all red.

The Lords Committee on Government Economic Responsibility made some very clear recommendations, none of which have been accepted by the government, for example the cross-party committee to discuss the budget - these recommendations were made in light of the government’s grave mistakes to ensure they they do not happen again, but sadly egos and pride is getting in the way on both accounts.

I call members around this House to support this Motion to express regret that the government has decided not to work with parties such as ours on the budget, and have chosen to ignore the committee report. Deputy Speaker we can do better than this!

This Reading will end on the 15th at 10PM