Economic Affairs and Work and Pensions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Economic Affairs and Work and Pensions

Richard Bacon Excerpts
Tuesday 8th June 2010

(14 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Darling of Roulanish Portrait Mr Darling
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My right hon. Friend is right. No doubt there will be another occasion to revisit the lend-lease arrangements that the then Government entered into in the 1940s, although I commend to the House Lord Robert Skidelsky’s excellent third volume on Keynes, which deals with this matter quite extensively. Some people thought that we got a pretty bad deal in 1943, but there you are.