“Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.”

Hansard, HC 6Ser vol 191 col 413 (16 May 1991) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1991-05-16/Orals-1.html.

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