It is not pretended that the finances of India are in such a condition that she is unable, so far as the preservation of life is concerned in the afflicted districts, to deal with such a Crisis of Unprecedented Magnitude as that with which she has to contend.

The country now faces an economic Crisis of Unprecedented Magnitude, we are told, which requires him, his party and all those who voted for him to claim that what was wrong is now right and that what was black is now white.

Local authorities face a Crisis of Unprecedented Magnitude from which only a massive increase in assistance from the central Government can rescue them.

Asthe right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) said, and as the Minister accepted, a humanitarian Crisis of Unprecedented Magnitude has unfolded in Yemen.