Although we shall no doubt discuss the budget on many occasions, in view of the Secretary of State's known profound anxiety about the plight of the starving people in Ethiopia, can he say whether he was successful yesterday in persuading his colleagues to take further emergency measures to deal with That Grave Crisis?

Is the shadow Chancellor saying that in the middle of That Grave Crisis, when it was still persisting, a Labour Government would have cut our spending plans more dramatically in order to hit what he is now praising as our target?