Oliver Dowden asks Angela Rayner for her definition of working people in PMQs clash

Oliver Dowden asks Angela Rayner for her definition of working people. Source: Reuters

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00:00What is the Deputy Prime Minister's definition of working people?

00:03Yes!

00:04Deputy Prime Minister.

00:07Well, first of all, let me start by welcoming the Honourable Gentleman to his new place.

00:12Today is our first exchange, Mr Speaker, since he pushed for a July general election.

00:17LAUGHTER

00:21And if his own side hadn't offered him a peerage, I certainly would have.

00:26And Mr Speaker, the definition of working people are the people that the Tory party have failed for the last 14 years.

00:33Well, the Deputy Prime Minister stood on a manifesto promising not to raise taxes on working people.

00:40It now appears she can't even define who working people are.

00:43So let...

00:46I'll give her another go.

00:49There are 5 million small business owners in this country.

00:53Are they working people?

00:55Deputy Prime Minister.

00:57Mr Speaker, I don't know how the shadow Deputy Prime Minister can stand there with a straight face

01:04when it was the small businesses, the working people of this country, that paid the price

01:09of them crashing the economy, sending interest rates, scoring.

01:13I think he needs to learn his own lessons in opposition.

01:17Oliver Downer.

01:19Well, I think the whole House will have heard the Deputy Prime Minister

01:23disregard 5 million hard-working small business owners.