Budget Proposals and Economic Situation

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 April 1955.

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Photo of Mr John Rodgers Mr John Rodgers , Sevenoaks 12:00, 20 April 1955

The Committee has just listened with relish to the speech of the hon. Member for Cheetham (Mr. H. Lever), but I found it a little difficult to reconcile the arguments which he advanced. He started by saying that the Chancellor's Budget was an unscrupulous Budget, a bribery of the electorate, and finished with a passionate plea for more disbursements this year, and a suggestion that the Budget surplus should be used to make greater concessions to the poor. I found these very antagonistic statements difficult to reconcile.