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Liam Byrne

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The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

So one is that we have got to be punchier in taking on this selfish minority who don't play by the rules.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

And on the Business and Trade Committee, we see them week in, week out.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Why has Fujitsu not contributed a bean to the ยฃ2 billion bill for restoring justice to post-obvious horizon victims?

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Not a penny have they paid.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Why they haven't?

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Well, A, they haven't had the moral courage to do it.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

And B, ministers have not been demanding enough.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

You know, so actually sin on both sides.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

But equally, if you think about the companies that we've had to bring in for shortchanging their workers, now, they would all kind of argue this, but we have had to bring in companies like Every and companies like Amazon and companies like McDonald's because we've had real concerns about how their workforce is being treated.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

We think that consumer harm in our country, the kind of rip-offs at bills and tills, it's not a small problem.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

It costs consumers ยฃ71 billion a year.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

These are kind of

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

big problems that people feel at a time when they're under financial pressure.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

So why aren't we doing anything?

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Why aren't we taking that on?

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

I think from a lack of self-confidence.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

The reason they're not doing it, of course, is that they're worried about disincentivising investment in the economy and all that kind of thing.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

I get that there's a balance to strike, which is why I'm saying

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

We're not here to launch a war on capitalism.