Former Conservative MP for Ludlow
In advocating the single currency, will the Chancellor make sure to remind the British people that every time that we have been on fixed exchange rates, unemployment has increased astronomically? Will he also tell the British public that the choice of rate at which we would join the single currency is not left to this country to decide, because under article 109 of the treaty it has to be...
I hope that the Minister recognises that I speak not just personally, but on behalf of all the people whom I represent. If she thinks that the councillors in my constituency are not worried about these measures, she has misunderstood everything that I have said.
Will the Minister give way?
Does not the Minister recognise that many of the people who sit on local authorities are business people? Is not the arrogance of the Government revealed by their belief that those people, when left to their own devices, cannot get it right? Does not that demonstrate the philosophy of a Labour Government who always believe that the man in Whitehall is right and who always want to override...
Will the Minister give way?
Will the Minister give way?
Will the Minister give way?
It is not a debate, then.
