Spectator's Notebook
I WONDER sometimes if the Daily Express ever study their own earlier editorials. This one, for example, from June 20, 1951: 'Housewives' Hero.
'His White Paper condemning price-fixing is a first-rate document.
'For why? Because here at last is the promise of legislation which will give a break to the most important person- in Britain—the housewife harassed by the cost of living.'
And, later on, an attack on Mr. Padley—'who represents the shop-workers and who talks as if competition means a return to the law of the jungle. Shame on Mr. Padley for his folly. The end of price-fixing by combines, monopolies and trade associations means an exit from, no.t a return to, the law of the jungle. An exit from a jungle in which the housewife was the hunted person and price-fixers lapped up the profits.'
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