Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1953.
As Great Britain is the one country in the world which cannot become self-supporting, would not my right hon. Friend agree that the only hope for a permanent recovery is to remove all trade barriers so that we can buy in the cheapest markets and sell in the dearest? Has my right hon. Friend seen the speech of Sir Roger Makins, as reported in "The Times" today?