Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 April 1964.
To be fair to my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford (Mr. Cooper), I think that the next sentence in his speech should be quoted, where he said:
We have lost millions upon millions of pounds worth of orders in the North-East and North-West of Scotland for shipbuilders."—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th April, 1964; vol. 693, c. 311.]
Then he went on to speak about the boilermakers. He was obviously referring to demarcation disputes which had held up British ships and given the British shipbuilding industry a bad name, for which the unions must surely have some responsibility.