Geoffrey Howe’s response to 1978 Budget
- Title
- Geoffrey Howe’s response to 1978 Budget
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 12 Apr 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:02:31
- Description
- Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Geoffrey Howe responds to Denis Healey’s 1978 Budget. His speech is broadly critical, observing that the introduction of the reduced rate band is far less useful than the raising of thresholds across the board would have been. The Budget, he concludes, is hostile to enterprise, skill, jobs and prosperity.
- Contributors
- Geoffrey Howe
- Keywords
- National budgets; Income tax; Denis Healey; State budget
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