Wilson puts paid to ‘unity’ call
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, July 5.
The British Prime Minister (Mr Harold Wilson) said yesterday that the problems facing Britain would not be solved “by the proposed government of bogus unity.”
The Prime Minister’s statement, in answer to a question in Parliament, was seen as his most forthright rejection so far of suggestions that Labour might join a coalition government. The Labour party, mindful of the precedent of the 1930 s when national governments led by Ramsay MacDonald were followed by Conservative rule, has since the war been consistently opposed to coalitions. The idea was recently mooted by Liberal members of Parliament and has been taken up by several leading Conservatives.
Mr Wilson said: “If the problems of this country are to be solved — and we are facing very, very deep problems partlv from outside and partly inherited from the failure of the previous government — it will not be done on the lowest common denominator between parties.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33579, 6 July 1974, Page 13
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