soldiers who have lost their lives serving in afghanistan since the house last sat -- corporal simon hornby lance corporal michael pritchard, lance corporal christopher roney, lance corporal tommy brown, rifleman aidan howell, sapper david watson and private robert hayes. i would also like to pay my own tribute to david taylor, who sadly died during the christmas recess. i was once one of the mep's for his area, and he had a reputation then -- and always has -- as an outstanding constituency mp and someone who always spoke his own mind. my heart goes out to his wife pam and his four daughters. last weekend, the prime minister said that he was all in favour of aspiration. could he explain to us exactly what is aspirational about a tax system that he has created in which the poorest 20% pay more from their income in tax than the richest 20%? >> it was because of all these things that we introduced the tax credit system, which is the means by which we take people out of poverty. we reward work for people who are in work, and for people who pay income tax it removes their liability by giving th

captain simon horn bay -- hornby, tommy brown, david watson, and others. i would like to pay my own tribute to david taylor, who said they died during christmas. pay my own taylor a david taylor. i was once of the meps in his area and he had a reputation and always had as an outstanding constituency as someone who always always spoke his own mind. my heart goes out to his wife pam and his four daughters. mr. speaker, last weekend the prime minister said he was all in favor of aspiration. could he explain to us exactly what his aspiration about a tax system which he has created where the poorest 20% pay more in -- for may income in tax than the richest 20%? >> it's because of all these things that we introduced the tax credit system. the tax credit system is the means by which we take people out of poverty. we reward work for people who are in work. and for people who pay income tax, it removes their liability by giving them tax credits instead. it is the means by which we bring greater justice, take people out of poverty and make work pay. and i hope he wo