ECONOMICS HAROLD WILSON’S BUDGET BLINKERS
By Tom Mercer
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WRITING on the Budget in the News of the World, Harold Wilson said the Tories ‘are still fighting against rising prices when world prices are falling.
‘They are still concentrating on the wages freeze when for thousands of families the problem is one of keeping their jobs. Above all their restrictive policies are holding down production and employment when our greatest need is for