Amendment of the Law

Part of Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation – in the House of Commons at 5:16 pm on 19 March 1991.

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Photo of Mr John Biffen Mr John Biffen , North Shropshire 5:16, 19 March 1991

I assure the right hon. Gentleman that it is much better than that. It comes from the Institute for Public and Policy Research—a recently furbished intellectual hothouse that is part of the redesigning of the Labour party to make it fit for alliance with the Liberal Democrats. It is presided over by Lady Blackstone and Lord Donoughue, the aristocrats of Labour. They have commissioned a Mr. John Grieve-Smith who worked in the economic section of the Cabinet Office arid the Treasury—what a lineage.

With that background, the document has been presented by that body, which moves so closely with the Leader of the Opposition and his Front Bench——