Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 November 1966.
I do not agree that it makes a mockery of Labour Party policies. The Government have already taken a number of measures to alleviate the position in Scotland, and the results of them were shown in the figure I quoted—67,300 persons out of work on 10th October, 1966. That, of course, was lower than for the last three years of the Tory Government.