We must ensure proper welfare and proper enforcement. That is what we need. I do not think that this is a party issue, and it would be unwise for one party to claim that it has the monopoly of wisdom on it. Members on both sides of the House care about the issue. We must not be pushed by that genuine concern into such extreme measures that we make farming in Britain completely impossible.
Friend is perfectly right.
Mr. David Bellotti, who was briefly a Member of the House, took a very different line from the Liberal Democrat spokesman. Gentleman s reference to the Official Report of 19 January and explain that my hon. May I set the record straight by explaining that in 1973, on a Labour motion, which was opposed by the then Conservative Government, live animal exports ware banned. I voted for that motion. When the Labour Government took office, the O'Brien committee, which the Conservative party set up, recommended the resumption of the trade, which at that time was in live cattle and some pigs and was a very small trade.