THOMSON ADAMANT
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, July 19. The British Labour Party’s “shadow” minister of defence (Mr George Thomson) said in a television programme last night that he accepted the New Zealand Government’s qualified acceptance of the terms agreed for New Zealand in the Common Market negotiations. Asked about the rejection of the terms by the New Zealand Labour Party, Mr Thomson said that one could deal in such circumstances only with Governments, not with Oppositions.
Mr Thomson, who was the principal Common Market negotiator in the last Labour Government, was defending his stand at the special Labour Party conference on Saturday—a stand which was in direct contrast with that of the party leader, Mr Harold Wilson. Mr Thomson told the conference that if Labour were still in power, its Cabinet, in his opinion, would have accepted the terms negotiated.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32663, 20 July 1971, Page 13
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