U.K. BUDGET

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28868, 13 April 1959, Page 13

U.K. BUDGET

Amory’s Debt To Thorneycroft (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright I LONDON, April 10. Westminster back-benchers are wondering if Mr Peter Thorneycroft will break his silence and speak either in the Budget debate or on the second reading of the Finance Bill, says a “Glasgow Herald” columnist. Mr Thorneycroft, the columnist says, “stole the show” at an unofficial Commonwealth relations conference organised in New Zealand by Chatham House. “Among other souvenirs -he brought back a unanimous resolution calling for the Commonwealth as a whole to make terms with the Common Market. The phrasing of the resolution seems to suggest that this should be done by an exchange of first and second preference. It is a drastic step away from the rigid free trade views that Mr Thorneycroft held when he was Chancellor. “His successor has gone out of his way privately and in the presence of back-benchers to make it plain he could not have contrived the present favourable Budget had it not been for the harsh measures taken by Mr Thorneycroft in September. 1957. These included the blunt warning to nationalised industries that the Government would not finance further deficits,” says the columnist