Public Expenditure

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 July 1976.

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Photo of Mr Denis Healey Mr Denis Healey , Leeds East 12:00, 22 July 1976

I am so rarely congratulated that I hardly like to turn any congratulations away whatever their sour source, but I am slightly embarrassed this afternoon by some of the praise coming from the Benches opposite, particularly when it is allied with most ridiculous remarks about what should or should not have been done in the past.