Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 March 1977.
In case the hon. Gentleman is under any illusion that there is a lack of realism for management in those areas to which he referred, they were precisely excluded from the Co-operative because it did not have the right to do those things. There was no idea on the part of the Co-operative that management was not needed. Now we have the selling and design rights, we shall fill those management slots too.