Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 October 1969.
Have we not now reached the position where Parliament, Press and the public are all agreed that the Falkland islanders are British, that there can be no question of transfer of sovereignty, and that the issue of sovereignty is dead? If that be the case, would it not be fairer to the loyal people of the Falkland Islands and to our good friends in the Argentine for the Government to say so?