Part of Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE &c. BILL – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 December 1964.
I have listened to the right hon. Lady with bewilderment. I never mind criticism of my own party. We made a tremendous amount of progress during our term of office, but I have heard her say repeatedly that this and that happened in 1956. Of course it happened in 1956, but my recollection is that the party opposite said that it was looking to the future and not to the past. Am I to understand that all that idealism of quick action to deal with all these anomalies has now flown out of the window—