Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 July 1978.
I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman at this time. I imagine that the reason why the Opposition chose this subject for debate today—we have no objection to discussing unemployment, because it is a serious problem—was that they hoped to make immediate and possibly electoral capital out of the figures of unemployment assumptions that the Chancellor of the Exchequer—