§ 8. Mr. Liptonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the financial effects to date of the restrictions he recently imposed on hire-purchase transactions.
§ Mr. LiptonApart from the unfortunate victims who are being sacked as a result of deliberate Government policy, is it not fairly obvious that when our economy is precariously balanced on a knife edge the deceptive prosperity of last October was just another piece of election trickery on the part of the Tory Party?
Mr. AmoryOn the contrary; people who had never had it so good last autumn are having it still better today, over the nation as a whole. It is true that with our economy there is comparatively little room for manoeuvre, and that makes it very important that steps either way should be taken in time.