Jenkins Finds Too Much Gloom
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 13. Britain was in danger of talking herself into an unjustifiable state of gloom, the ChanceUor of the Exchequer (Mr Roy Jenkins), told leading industrialists and union chiefs. In a pep talk to the National Economic Development Council (“Neddy”) yesterday, Mr Jenkins said the economy was heading towards a substantial surplus next year. The Prime Minister (Mr Harold Wilson) presided over tbe monthly session of Neddy, attended by representatives of State and private employers, the Trade Union Congress and Government departments. Mr Jenkins said there had been a remarkable achievement in getting a 4 per cent productive growth rate this year, and he forecast smaller price rises in 1969.
But he attacked the “excessive atmosphere of dispiritedness” in the country, which he said was in danger of talking itself into “an unjustifiable state of gloom.” Mr Jenkins told the Neddy meeting “there is no point in getting into a state of panic.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31862, 14 December 1968, Page 25
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