§ Q3. Mr. SkinnerTo ask the Prime Minister if he will pay an official visit to Henley-on-Thames.
§ The Prime MinisterI have no present plans to do so.
§ Mr. SkinnerWhen the Prime Minister finally gets round to going to Henley and perhaps having a rubber chicken dinner with his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, will he tell the voters of Henley why he has managed to offend the Welsh, the blacks and others—[Interruption.] including women, in his first seven days in office? Is that how he intends to start building his classless society?
§ The Prime MinisterI think that the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) was writing down the question that he intended his hon. Friend to ask and not the one that his hon. Friend did ask. In so far as the question presumably relates to Mr. Taylor, the prospective Conservative candidate in Cheltenham, the reported remarks—which I understand have been denied—are not sentiments that have any place in our party.
§ Mr. AdleyIs my right hon. Friend aware that the branch line to Henley-on-Thames remains intact? Does he recognise that if more decisions of that nature had been taken by British Rail in the past few years, and fewer decisions of the kind taken following the disastrous Beeching report, many more of our fellow citizens would today have the opportunity to travel by train which has been denied them by the closures of recent years?
§ The Prime MinisterI was aware of the excellent service from Henley. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment reports to me regularly on it.