Were they sure, even if we could abolish tariffs straight off without any other countries doing anything, we should not have something of the Same Financial Crisis as we had two years ago?
If the Opposition had been returned to power, they would have had to face the Same Financial Crisis and balance of payments problem.
The Government know full well that it was caused by, among other things, the sub-prime mortgages in the United States of America and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and that many other countries faced the Same Financial Crisis.