Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wireless and Television – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 November 1964.
Mr Harold Wilson
, Huyton
12:00,
10 November 1964
I think the House will agree that at this time there was plenty of ground for suspicion, in view of the fact that in three successive elections strikes affecting components of the motor car industry had started and caused widespread stoppages in the motor car industry, with a certain amount of evidence suggesting motivation in the case, at any rate, of the 1959 one. I think that probably hon. Members would agree, if they saw certain television programmes about the Hardy Spicer dispute, that the reason for the dispute arose more from "blimpery" than political conspiracy.
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