Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: JEP's decision not to stand as a candidate in the 1974 General Election over the Conservative policy on Britain and the Common Market (including his 'Vote Labour' speech in Birmingham [Warwickshire], 23 February); strikes; inflation, the Conservative wage and price control policy and 'managed capitalism'; immigration, particularly the New Commonwealth population in Britain; the oil shortage; a European Parliament; international exchange rates, trade and the floating pound; Britain's relations with Canada; Conservatism in Scotland and Scottish offshore oil and gas reserves; the Equal Opportunities Commission; Northern Ireland; food prices.

Also includes: article by Milton Friedman [Professor of Economics, University of Chicago] on the oil shortage; census figures; list of average food retail prices; letter from Francis Golding, Department of the Environment, on the Counter-Inflation Act.