Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 November 1973.
Mr Denis Healey
, Leeds East
12:00,
29 November 1973
If the right hon. Gentleman really believes that, would it not be much more sensible for him to borrow direct from the IMF short-term at interest rates only one-third of those at which local authorities and others are borrowing from the Euro currency market? By smothering our balance of payments deficit, is he not inflicting a loss of £70 million a year by his own account on our balance of payments?