The World : More British Jobs Pledged

Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson promised the ruling Conservative Party that Britain will have more jobs and lower inflation by next year. Responding to critics of the government’s economic policy in a speech to the party’s annual conference in Blackpool, Lawson said the number of working people has risen by about 600,000 since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s second term began in 1983. Another speaker, Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine, vowed that Britain will not abandon its independent nuclear deterrent despite Soviet efforts to “persuade us to give it up.”