Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:19 pm on 8 May 1980.
If my hon. Friend will excuse me, I shall finish what I am saying. I am good natured about giving way, but I must be allowed to make my own speech. That might display a high degree of eccentricity, but that is how I feel.
Mr. Riddell said
This is just the type of factual questioning of officials about the details of a Finance Bill before the more partisan legislative process "—
that is US—
which has long been favoured by Parliamentary reformers. It may have been unexciting but no one, for example, can have gone
away any longer believing in the desirability of retaining the reduced rate band of income tax.
I look forward to seeing whether the Select Committee managed to consolidate my prejudices as they have reinforced Mr. Peter Riddell.