The April Trade Figures

The Week Vol. 1, No. 21, 21 May 1964 · p. 4 of the scan · 73 words

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These confirm the assessment made in our columns (see issue number 18) that the March figures were not a sign of an improvement in British capitalism's trading position. Now at £107 m. we have the second highest trade gap in Britain's history. The political significance of these figures is that they reduce the room for manoeuvre by the Tories still further, thus ngking a Labour victory more likely, but unter conditions of crisis,