Tory policy ...at last!

Workers Press no. 179, 5 June 1970 · scan page 2

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ACCORDING to Mr Reginald campaign is heating up and the beginning to emerge?

Maudling: "The main issues are If the tired statement at his Barnet adoption meeting was anything to go by, this desirable phenomenon will in no way be due to the efforts of the Tory deputy leader.

TV cameramen stood around, looking suitably bored, as Reggie waffled or about everything but the main issues , for nearly three-quarters of an hour.

It would be a closely-fought election, he predicted, in which 'organization, enthusiasm and determination' would be decisive.

What is needed is a government that unites 'compassion and compétence'.

Dirge

But of policy there was none until the (literally) dying minutes of his inspiring dirge.

At this point, he mentioned the Tories' intentions to cut government expenditure - in Dous Bish, sociar ervices, amenities-and that 'it is in the interests of individual trade unionists and the individual in society at large that there is a revision of the laws within which they [the trade unions] operate'.

This was not in order to weaken the trade unions (good heavens, what a thought!), but to strengthen 'responsible' trade unions, i.e., the ability of the trade union leaders to prevent strikes.

Questioned on the Tories' plans for denationalization, Maudling attacked plans to nationalize the ports and said that, as far as steel was concerned, the industry would be made more competitive through 'private management techniques' and 'private There was 'scope for a substantial reduction in government expenditure, he added.