His method of soft-pedalling the whole thing and indicating it as something of very little importance was extremely skilful and well done.
It was quite clear that he was still intent upon the soft-pedalling of the emergency which is coming up before us.
There have been at least three, if we include those about soft-pedalling on illegal immigration and asylum.
I suspect that the fact that paragraph 18 is not stressed more represents an attitude of soft-pedalling on the question of speed.
I should like to emphasise that there is no soft-pedalling going on.
Are there any other policies of soft-pedalling action on illegal immigration?
I can only assume that they are soft-pedalling on the whole of these processes; and we do not care very much for that attitude.