“The people must have confidence in their publicly-owned industries. Private industry must have the necessary confidence to maintain and increase investment to do their duty by the people. And confidence demands that a clear frontier must be defined between what is public and what is private industry.”

— Harold Wilson

Speech to the Socialist International Conference (30 June 1974), quoted in The Times (1 July 1974), p. 1
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