Scotland (Industry)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 July 1949.

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Photo of Miss Peggy Herbison Miss Peggy Herbison , Lanarkshire Northern 12:00, 7 July 1949

In listening to the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore) I wondered whether he was giving the considered view of his party. If he was, the criticism which we have heard from the front and back benches opposite, and which we get continually in the Press, has been very badly founded. We are continually being told that the Ministers of the present Government have done little or nothing to bring home to the ordinary people of the country the serious nature of our economic position. I am certain that if some railwaymen or miners or some of the lowest paid workers had been sitting in the galleries today, they would have been wondering seriously whether we were in a difficult economic position or not.