Bring about a Crisis in This Way".

It is nonsense to keep talking about a Crisis in the Way in which many people, on both sides of the House, have talked about it.

It is a Crisis in This Way.

One effect of the Chancellor's decision to meet the Crisis in This Way, through a general increase in indirect taxation on necessities and everything else and not through an increase in direct taxation, was to engineer last autumn an immediate rise in prices and in the cost of living.

But when such a struggle breaks out at one cold store involving a few dozen jobs, it is ridiculous for such an argument to escalate into a national Crisis in the Way that it has.

In the meantime, how are we to ensure - indeed, to be absolutely sure - that there will be no dangerous escalation of the Crisis in Any Way?

We have reached a Crisis in the Way in which we look after and provide for young people.

We are addressing a genuine Crisis in the Way in which excellent schools are facing up to their budgets, and all we get is silly heckling from ToryMembers who, instead of representing their communities, their parents and the future of their children, attempt to score inaccurate party political points.

If, for instance, a local authority should try to delay or avoid conducting the reviews of some of its services, or should face some particular Crisis in the Way that it provides its services, it is essential for the Secretary of State to have powers to direct the local authority to carry out those services quickly and effectively.

The whole matter of the UK, the US, the Iraq invasion and the coalition of the willing has done some damage, but, bluntly, the truth is that the Security Council, through no fault of the UK and its chairmanship, has not stepped up to the mark in this Crisis in the Way that one would have hoped and expected.

Today we face unprecedented and uniquely difficult circumstances - a two-Way Crisis of confidence.