A week later, the front-page headline was "Rover Crisis hits county".
This morning I was at the University of Wolverhampton, which is located in a region rocked by the Rover Crisis and facing the loss of 20,000 jobs, not just within Rover but the intricate supply chain of small manufacturing enterprises which have supported the motor industry.
The hon. Lady implies that Opposition Members possess tremendous business acumen, so could she remind the House of the practical business proposals that she put forward to solve the Rover Crisis?
I have said before in the House that, before the Rover Crisis broke, a Conservative Member of the European Parliament andformer director of Rover, Mr. Malcolm Harbour, wrote - with my consent as shadow Secretary of State - to the Secretary of State to offer the support of the Conservative party in negotiations with the Commissioner in the seemingly endless battle to secure money from Europe.
Leaving aside the European grant, what solution did you put forward to solve the Rover Crisis?
As an example, I refer to the shock waves resulting from the Rover Crisis and the excellent work of the Rover task force.
We have acknowledged the urgent need that has arisen in recent years to deal with the Rover Crisis and to press on with the regeneration of the Black Country and the Potteries.
In alleging that, they have attempted to draw parallels between the way in which he has handled Railtrack and his handling of the Rover Crisis last year, when he was at the Department of Trade and Industry.
Do we believe that the chairman of BMW was lying during the Rover Crisis?
With the Rover Crisis very present in all our minds, what are the Government going to do to help the people who do not have those basic skills, and what are they going to do to retrain the people who will lose their jobs as a result of the Rover crisis?
In his article of22 April he wrote that when Ministers returned from China, the Government determined that they must not have a Rover Crisis breaking in the days immediately before polling day.
For me, the gap was partly bridged a few years ago by the Rover Crisis at the Longbridge plant in my constituency.
In the west midlands in about 2000, we saw the first stage of what I would call the Rover Crisis.