Orders of the Day — The Economy

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:33 pm on 1 December 1998.

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Photo of Ivan Lewis Ivan Lewis Labour, Bury South 3:33, 1 December 1998

The right hon. Gentleman cannot define the policies to which he wants to return because, at general elections, the electorate vote primarily on economic competence. The reason for the biggest landslide in living memory on 1 May 1997 was primarily the Conservative party's economic record of boom and bust. That is why the British people will not allow the right hon. Gentleman back into office to implement his policies.