§ The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)I have at present no plans to do so, Sir.
§ Mr. AdleyIf the Prime Minister should decide to come to Mudeford, or any part of my constituency, would he explain to my constituents why Labour Members of Parliament, Mr. Joe Gormley and spokesmen for the National Coal Board were so silent during both the February election and the last election about the influence of Communists in the National Coal Board—[Interruption]—the National Union of Mineworkers. The Prime Minister will know I meant the NUM. May I ask him to reread the excellent statement which he made in the House on 20th June 1966? Will he then say whether he would describe Mr. McGahey, Mr. Scargill and their comrades as a tightly-knit group of politically motivated men?
§ The Prime MinisterMay I first congratulate the hon. Gentleman on turning up for Budget Day in normal dress? Addressing myself to his supplementary question, after exhaustive research I have found that there are no mineworkers in Mudeford.
§ Mr. Evelyn KingWhether or not the right hon. Gentleman is able to visit Dorset, where he would certainly be welcome, will he undertake to do what he has seldom done but what I suggest he ought to do, namely, visit some part of rural England in order that outraged and desperate livestock farmers may have an opportunity to put as sympathetically as they can, and as strongly as they would like to do, their views to a Minister whom they feel they can trust?
§ The Prime MinisterShould I visit that part of Dorset, I would never be as welcome as when I spoke in a by-election in 1962 which led to a Labour victory there. On the serious point raised by the hon. Member, he will know that the particular matters which have been raised in debate in the House in the past two weeks and at Question Time will, of course, be the subject of what my right hon. Friend the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will be discussing with his colleagues the Agriculture Ministers in Brussels next week.