Orders of the Day — Unemployment

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 July 1978.

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Mr. Eric S. Heifer:

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the reasons for increased unemployment was that the Government listened far too much to those on the Conservative Benches and accepted their arguments that we had to have drastic public expenditure cuts? The Government went part of the way on public expenditure. Had they gone further—they were prevented from doing so by opposition among some of my hon. Friends—unemployment would now be about 4 million. It is public expenditure cuts that have worsened the world crisis.