Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 12:45 pm ar 13 Mehefin 2013.
I cannot help the hon. Gentleman with his inferiority complex about people from the Rhondda as opposed to the Cynon Valley, but I can do so on the coalition negotiations. The mansion tax has not been introduced by this coalition simply because we could not agree, which is how coalitions work. [ Interruption. ] His party did not offer it and, to deal with the Labour Whip’s sedentary intervention, it was not at all prepared to move on tuition fees.
What happens when coalitions are formed between two different parties is that we get some of the things we want and they get some of those that they want. In 2015, we might have a slightly more grown-up view of how to conduct politics in a pluralist society after a general election result in which no party commands a majority in this House.