Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 June 1964.
Earl of Dalkeith:
Is it not a fact that during the lifetime of this Parliament prices in Britain have risen less fast than prices in Holland, Germany, Italy and other European countries, and less than half as fast as in France and Japan, thereby making our rise in the cost of living the envy of our European rivals, which reflects a great deal to the credit of successive Chancellors in the last few years?
