Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1983.
I utterly reject that criticism of the present recruits into the Civil Service. As far as I can judge, the right hon. Gentleman was reading a question that he drafted before the general election. Does he not recall that he had it wrong then? Would it not he wise to make a resolution, now that he has been readopted and re-elected, to forget his silly vendetta of criticism against the Prime Minster before the election?