Miles, pints and ounces should be abandoned in favor of a fully metric system because visitors to the Olympics will think Britain is living in its “imperial past”, a former Tory chancellor has said. Lord Howe of Aberavon, who served in Baroness Thatcher’s cabinet, called on ministers to end the “deeply confusing shambles” of using a mixture of metric and imperial measures. He said the lack of any attempt by the Government to clarify the arrangements was the “most glaring omission” from the Queen’s Speech. During debate on the speech in the House of Lords, he said: “Weights and measures...
