This month started in the north west of the constituency as I was invited to open the 60th Elsworth & District horticultural show. My husband Phil and I enjoyed wandering around the stalls and seeing the impressive and sometimes misshapen(!) exhibits.
We were borrowing more than at any time in our peace time history.
Unemployment had risen by nearly 850,000 in the previous two years, we had just under 4 million workless households.
