29. Amendment of the Law

Part of Orders of the Day — Budget Statement – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 April 1963.

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Photo of Mr Harold Davies Mr Harold Davies , Leek 12:00, 3 April 1963

Look, my hon. Friend, is this a duet? A tenor and baritone duet, as I think somebody is suggesting?

Let us get a bit of commonsense into the discussion. The Tories are now claiming that they are wonderful people because they are solving the problem of unemployment. They have been in power for twelve years. They have been giving us the facts all mixed up. We heard another misrepresentation a little while ago. As the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) said, this nation emerged bankrupt from the greatest war in the history of mankind. Yet still the childish accusation is made that we on this side did not do miracles after that ghastly war.