Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 May 1978.
This raises a very important question. Does the Opposition believe that pay policy should be totally abandoned or that it should apply to everyone but the Armed Services? Certainly that was not their view in respect of their pay policy. In the wider context, it is about time that we knew whether they were proposing to have some form of guidelines on pay, should the dire con sequence hit the country of their becoming responsible for our nation's affairs.