However, his prescription was not as constructive or good as his analysis. France was mentioned in an intervention during his speech. Hardly a family farm is left in the Creuse in central France and most of them are occupied by weekend visitors from Paris. That is real problem around the world, given the pressures on commodity prices. The number of farms has almost halved in France.
Friend is right.
Perhaps I should be careful, given the intervention that my hon. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire, but I should like to mention the tremendous pressure that has been placed on our traditional industries, on our manufacturing industry on and the communities that were bound up with them. No other small country in the industrialised western world has had to bear the disruption and degeneration in its economic structure that Wales has borne from the late 1960s onwards. Will my right hon. Friend obviously wants to get his retaliation in first.