Oral Answers to Questions — Fuel Supplies (Prime Minister's Speech)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 December 1973.

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Photo of Mr Joe Ashton Mr Joe Ashton , Bassetlaw 12:00, 18 December 1973

Does the Prime Minister recall that in that speech he said that everything he did was always in the national interest? Can he say whether the coat of varnish that he applied yesterday to the woodworm and dry rot in the national economy was in the national interest or whether it was in the interest of the Conservative Party and a possible winter General Election?