"What pound?!"

President Richard Nixon Harold Wilson Ted Heath British Pound original cartoon artwork

(20 June 1972 Anthony  Barber, Chancellor of the Exchequer, denied a Labour suggestion that the pound would soon be devalued. In an interview on BBC television's Panorama he said, "The only case for changing the exchange rate of any currency is if in fact it is at an unrealistic rate. The pound is not.")

Size 39cm x 20cm

Medium Pen and ink, half-tone tint on artboard

Publication The Sun

Published 22 June 1972