Stoppages

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 October 1991.

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Photo of Mr Toby Jessel Mr Toby Jessel , Twickenham 12:00, 22 October 1991

Is not it a tremendous benefit to the country that, as a result of action taken by the Conservative Government, strikes are practically a thing of the past? Does my hon. Friend remember the last year of the Labour Government—the winter of discontent—when strikers in the national health service stopped sick people getting into hospital, dead bodies went unburied and verminous refuse was left in the streets?