My right hon. Friend—other Ministers do the same—referred to the past as if it is wrong because it is the past. Some things from the past were good, if not perfect. We should not dispense with things that were valuable in the past and might be useful today.
Civil Service
Proceeding contribution from
Kelvin Hopkins
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 7 May 2008.
It occurred during Opposition day on Civil Service.
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