“No Government can produce an economic miracle. An economic miracle depends on people on the shop floor, in the board room, in the sales office, working a bit harder and more efficiently than they have worked in the past.”

—  Denis Healey

On BBC TV (15 December 1976).
1970s

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British Labour Party politician and Life peer 1917–2015

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