Surplus Rental Income

Part of Clause 50 – in the House of Commons at 3:45 am on 14 June 1988.

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Photo of Mr Bob Cryer Mr Bob Cryer , Bradford South 3:45, 14 June 1988

Whenever I wanted to do anything I found that a successsion of civil servants wanted to talk to me for long enough to stop me doing so. When I was a Minister, the problem was not to get me to do things but to stop me doing things. In my leisure moments, when I wash aside the misery I underwent when I was a Minister, I am proud of the fact that civil servants were trying to outwit me all the time.