Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 August 1947.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
12:00,
11 August 1947
It is not a confession. [HON. MEMBERS: "It is a fact."] It is an announcement, which has already been made, that the wartime system—not set up by this Government—by which these trades had to have ring fences put round them so that nobody could get into them, is not a desirable thing, and, in the long run, leads to unpleasant private enterprise monopolies.