Westland plc

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 9:30 pm on 15 January 1986.

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Photo of Mr Leon Brittan Mr Leon Brittan , Richmond (Yorks) 9:30, 15 January 1986

I am not giving way.

It is to that sort of pressure that one is responding. The anxieties that Sir Raymond Lygo and I share are very real. It is for that reason that I say that we were not as a Government, and I was not as an individual, taking any kind of absolutist position either in relation to Britain and Europe or Britain and America, nor were we taking any absolutist position with regard to intervention in industry.