Olympic Games

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:43 pm on 17 March 1980.

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Photo of Mr Eric Heffer Mr Eric Heffer , Liverpool, Walton 3:43, 17 March 1980

I accept that Governments in the free world cannot organise the Games, but why is a Foreign Office Minister in Geneva today, with representatives of three or four other countries, talking about such Games as an alternative to the Olympics? Is that not a contradiction in policy, and a wasted journey for the Minister?