Industrial and Economic Situation

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 February 1974.

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Photo of Sir Robert Cary Sir Robert Cary , Manchester, Withington 12:00, 6 February 1974

That is an easy alibi. The miners went back to work in November of that year. I agree that the shut down of mines was a great national mistake for which both sides of the House were responsible.

We heard today from my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer the strongest appeal I have heard for the Relativities Report, which could bring a solution to our present crisis. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment tried almost at the eleventh hour to bring about a discussion with the National Union of Mineworkers, at 9 a.m. yesterday before its executive meeting. I bitterly regret the executive's attitude.