Mr Leon Brittan
Former MP for Richmond (Yorks)
Former MP for Richmond (Yorks)
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May I join in congratulating my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his formidable achievement in continuing the downward path of public expenditure as a proportion of national income while at the same time providing extra resources for priority areas of expenditure? Does he agree that if top priority is to be given to reducing the present levels of inflation, fiscal policy...
Listening to the speech of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley), I could not help feeling that the disappointment that he showed when the Home Secretary made his statement had spilled over into this debate—disappointment that the draconian measures that he imagined would be introduced were not in the White Paper. Finding that they are not in the White Paper, he...
It will not do for the right hon. Gentleman to make dark hints about unspecified legislation. If the right hon. Gentleman is making hints about future legislation, the House is entitled to know what those hints are. If it is existing legislation, it should be identified. The right hon. Gentleman has demeaned himself by doing neither. The legislation envisaged by my right hon. Friend the Home...
Former MP for Richmond (Yorks)
Entered the House of Commons on 28 February 1974 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 31 December 1988 — unknown
Also represented Cleveland and Whitby
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