{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-21", "file": "debates1958-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "86a822d53e4b292d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-21a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "ht off by a quite extravagant claim for compensation which was awarded by the Board? On the basis of that information given to me by the Hydro-Electric Board, will the Under-Secretary take steps to see that it is confirmed or denied and the public and the investors of the Board made aware whether there is some truth in the statement? The sum of £200,000 has been mentioned and this is marginal land", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-21a.875.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-21", "file": "debates1958-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "86a822d53e4b292d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-21a.880.8", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Did not the Joint Under-Secretary seek to get into touch with any of the authorities concerned? Evidently the English Football League recognises the problem raised in this Question. It has proposed the following rule to its members: …clubs shall not enter into any negotiations for registration, directly\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-21a.880.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-21", "file": "debates1958-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "86a822d53e4b292d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-21a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "uld help the officers a great deal. Whatever we may think about this point, I ask the Colonial Secretary whether he has recently had a chance of looking at the courses undertaken at Oxford and Cambridge by these men. I do not know whether Oxford and Cambridge are the two best universities for this purpose. There might be something to say for the red-brick universities, which seem more appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-21a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-22", "file": "debates1958-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ec43c2a269b5d4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPENCAST COAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who told you that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "many years, but it means a great deal, not only to the coal mining industry, but to the whole future of this island. This industry has saved the country £100 million a year ever since the war. We have been told about all kinds of difficulties in financial operations, but can we afford to ignore sums of that magnitude? I am told that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer resigned over £50 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-22", "file": "debates1958-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ec43c2a269b5d4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPENCAST COAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I have not heard of very much small coal which cannot be sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-22", "file": "debates1958-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ec43c2a269b5d4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPENCAST COAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e discussing the Mining Subsidence Bill. On that occasion, he was very tolerant and accommodating. As a result of his tolerance and accommodation, we were able to present to the House on Third Reading a much better Bill on mining subsidence than would have been the case without our help. I therefore plead with the Minister not to adopt a stupid attitude, as some Ministers do when discussing Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-22", "file": "debates1958-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ec43c2a269b5d4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPENCAST COAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Willis", "preceding_text": "If this is to make sense in Scotland, or if we are to act in the tradition common to Scotland, legal matters affecting Scotland should be covered by a separate Bill. That seems to me to be the natural and right thing to do. I can only think that the Government, anxious to save time, and aware of the fact that if this Bill had gone to the Scottish Grand Committee it would have been vastly improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-22", "file": "debates1958-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "ec43c2a269b5d4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "uld have helped to improve the speed and the efficiency of the House in Private Bill procedure. Although, tonight, we are to deal with one particular aspect of that Committee's Report, there are other recommendations on which at some time the House ought to pass judgment. For example, the Committee made a recommendation for the abolition of town meetings and town polls, which are a public scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-22a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "What is the use of the right hon. Gentleman saying that he is prepared to consider any representations which may be made if he has already made up his mind to flout the unanimous opinion of the whole of the farming community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "o long procrastination in negotiations between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Malta? Is it not the case that many months ago the principle of integration was endorsed, including promises which would cover work and the conditions of labour? Will not the right hon. Gentlemen speed a conclusion to these long-delayed negotiations so that we may welcome members from Malta in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "When the question of integration is being considered, will the Colonial Secretary ask some of his hon. Friends to reflect upon the consequences of the alternative to integration before they make up their minds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "CAPITAL MURDER CONVICTION (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I can only give my fiat when a case raises a point of law of exceptional public importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1257.3", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "CAPITAL MURDER CONVICTION (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S FIAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman bear in mind that the trial judge said that he had the greatest difficulty in understanding the Section and that substantially he read the Section to the jury and said, \"You must make up your minds as to what it means.\"? In view of the fact that this is a very substantial alteration of our procedure and one which was welcomed on both sides of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1257.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1261.10", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it not be possible, through you, to suggest to the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1261.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1262.8", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " Speaker. The Leader of the Opposition has put a very serious question to the Leader of the House about the sacrifice by the Opposition of a Supply Day. Would it not be in order for one hon. Member from this side of the House to make a comment on that? It is only that that I wish to do. May I suggest that the sacrifice of a Supply Day means sacrificing the protection of the rights of the taxpayer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1262.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BOROUGH OF ROCHDALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "umstances which surround it. I can only think that it is by inadvertence that the right hon. Gentleman the Patronage Secretary has put down this Motion for this week. The fact is that this poll will be taken on the stalest possible register. The effect of passing this Motion this week will be that only people who were resident in the Borough of Rochdale on 10th October, 1956, will be able to vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "NEW WRIT (BOROUGH OF ROCHDALE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hornsey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "May I say, in reply to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede), that the Government have deliberately moved this Motion for the reason that by the time this by-election will have been held the seat will have been vacant for two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "succeeded in making effective reductions. My right hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth believed, however, that certain further economies ought to be made now which would have involved changes in policy which the rest of us felt would have been unwise, because they would, in our opinion, have been positively damaging to our anti-inflationary policy. I do not propose to specify them today in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "porting our internal measures. In September, we also announced our intention of keeping investment in the public sector for the next two years—1958–59 and 1959–60—within the expected level of such expenditure in the current year. Arrangements to this end are going forward satisfactorily. Unemployment remains at low levels, but the demand for manpower is becoming a little less strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "l certainly do my best, because although I disagree with his point of view I think I understand it. I think the right hon. Gentleman felt that after the crisis in September the situation was so serious that desperate measures were necessary. He looked back on the record of the Government in these past two years, on the record of the last six years, and, indeed, on the whole of the post-war period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "he period 1946–51, import prices doubled, in the second period, 1951–57, import prices fell by just about 9 per cent. What is the significance of that? It is, of course, that despite the appalling difficulty of rising world prices when we were in power, we managed to hold back—to some extent, at any rate—the impact upon our home price level. And the second and inescapable conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "te works are closing down in South Wales. I heard only yesterday that Stewarts and Lloyds' tube works, in Northamptonshire, is going on short time. \"It is quite clear that unemployment and short-time working are likely to spread in Britain this winter.\" These are not my words. They are quoted from the Economist of 18th January. I have no desire to exaggerate the position, and I have never done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "h can possibly be said by an hon. Member on this side of the House. I should have thought that the Motion was utterly meaningless in any context other than that in which I have placed it. The fact is that the vast majority of the nation has no confidence in the Government; many hon. Members opposite have no confidence in the Government and, worst of all, they have no confidence left in themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "Newton, as we heard from the Leader of the Opposition and from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley), that the only thing to do in the present situation is to get back to a controlled and planned economy. I am bound to say that I should have more faith in such a system if I could say that from 1945 to 1951, when we had what I understood to be a Socialist planned economy, it worked well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "em which produced a series of crises in 1947, 1949 and 1951 and eventually led to devaluation of the £ is called a success, then for me words have lost their meaning. We heard from the hon. Member for Newton the same old statement which we have heard a great deal this afternoon, namely, that Tory policy is leading to unemployment. The Labour Party is the last party ever to talk about unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "e words have lost their meaning. We heard from the hon. Member for Newton the same old statement which we have heard a great deal this afternoon, namely, that Tory policy is leading to unemployment. The Labour Party is the last party ever to talk about unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I will explain why. I am old enough to remember the position in 1929 when the Socialist Party came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": " outlined to us today with, if I may say so, a measure of firmness and clarity which pleased all of his hon. Friends on this side of the House. I was very glad to hear him say that nothing has happened since September and in the two months since the House approved the present policy to make it wise or necessary to change that policy. Everything that has happened has shown how right is that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman said in the course of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1354.5", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Full employment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "nomic aim is to pay our way in the world on current and capital account. Our second is to maintain the internal and external value of the £. Our third aim must be to maintain a sufficiently high level of investment to ensure that in an age of rapid technological change British industry remains competitive. Our fourth aim must be to maintain a high level of employment of all our economic resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " does anything at all, this debate marks the end of the legend that Tory freedom works. The resigning Chancellor today spoke of slithering from crisis to crisis, of a nation in full retreat and of the road to ruin. We have just had over six years of Conservative Government, in the easiest conditions that this country has known in world economic affairs at any time since before the First World War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I can always count on the hon. Gentlemen to go on living very happily in the year or two immediately following the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Marshall aid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e war, after six years of Conservative Government, that those problems would be a little easier to solve. I put this to the hon. Gentleman, also: from 1949 to 1951, the last three years of the Labour Government, we did not lose 2,150 million dollars. We actually gained 261 million dollars in those three years. That period included the devaluation year and 1951, about which hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ed time. Another year has gone by and nothing has been done to meet the foreign exchange crisis. What hope does the Conservative Party offer in these circumstances? We have heard two views from the benches opposite today. As to the former Chancellor's resignation, it really is not for us to take sides in what is basically a clash between the Edwardian and Victorian wings of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a bachelor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "the ex-Chancellor's resignation: I regard it as a disaster. It will do irreparable damage to the party … it seems to me indecent for a Government which has quite rightly asked everyone to limit expenditure to say, in effect, 'We are going to have a small, illegitimate baby' and hope that no one will notice. That is what he said about his new colleagues—\"disaster\", \"irreparable\", \"indecent\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " a position in which it will not be a question of what wage claims it makes; it will not be able to get them. The possibility of getting some understanding with the trade union movement, to which my right hon. Friend referred, has become immeasurably more difficult over the last two or three years. I will not refer to the Report of the Tribunal tonight, because we shall be debating that next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ade union leaders? We must make it plain that all this is a dream which the Government are talking about. The real fact is that we had a balance of payments surplus last year of quite reasonable proportions. We should have liked to have seen it still bigger, but it was quite respectable. Yet, at the same time, we had a heavy and almost disastrous run on sterling. It was the result of Tory freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "f over £200 million a year, we lost, according to the Economist estimate, about 1,500 million dollars in capital movements of this kind. The tragedy, both economic and moral, is that because of these things we have been borrowing from the poor countries, mainly in the Commonwealth, and lending to the rich countries, mainly in North America. That is not economic sense and it is not political sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-23", "file": "debates1958-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6dcf03062b0789fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did he resign?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ready, upon the firm base of an honest and trusted currency, the healthy expansion of our economy. It will, therefore, be seen, as was borne out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in opening the debate, that a change of Chancellor does not mean a change of policy. The policy which my right hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth commends is not a different policy from that of Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-23a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-24", "file": "debates1958-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c37ee9c38fd57dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (OMNIBUS SHELTERS AND QUEUE BARRIERS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " within their boundaries to put up bus shelters, there will undoubtedly be pressure put upon the Government by Scottish hon. Members to change the basis of calculation of the block grant system which is now the feature of the Government's proposal for reform of local government finance. If this happens we shall have a bus shelter factor introduced into the whole question of the block grant system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-24", "file": "debates1958-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c37ee9c38fd57dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1475.0", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "OFFICES REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"That is a Committee point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Doughty", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman sits down, would he refer to Clause 17, which he has not mentioned? This excludes Government Departments, but, after all, nowadays an enormous number of workers in the classes he mentioned are employed in Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-24", "file": "debates1958-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c37ee9c38fd57dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "OFFICES REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ould be. There is another point in that connection. The miners and quarrymen demanded attention for the treatment which they obviously merited, but it was left to the Tory Government to bring in the Mines and Quarries Act. Why have we had to wait again for a Tory Government to do what the Labour Government of the time should obviously have done themselves? These points have no bearing on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-24", "file": "debates1958-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c37ee9c38fd57dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "OFFICES REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Would be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am aware that the former Prime Minister, in July, 1955, saw a deputation from the Trades Union Congress and did say that legislation on these lines might be introduced in a future Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-24", "file": "debates1958-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c37ee9c38fd57dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "OFFICES REGULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am aware that the former Prime Minister, in July, 1955, saw a deputation from the Trades Union Congress and did say that legislation on these lines might be introduced in a future Session. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Would be.\"] I am not aware of any specific undertaking being given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-24a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL (CLEARANCE COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "To answer the second part of the supplementary first, as far as I am aware, all fleets pay the same surcharge. I agree with my hon. Friend that this was not an easy decision to take, as it means that British shipowners who have already suffered from the closing of the canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that really arises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.33.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In view of the decision of the Kitchen Committee about the Members' Cafeteria, will the hon. Member now make a recommendation to his colleagues on the Committee that the Members' Smoking Room, otherwise known for many years as the Tory smoking room, should also be made available to strangers so that they might be permitted to listen to the conversation of hon. Members there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS (REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "t one firm was prepared to carry the financial responsibility and brought the others into line in saying that they would do so. So it seems that some good was done in that direction. I recognise that the Treasury and my right hon. Friend have got a weapon in dealing with contracts. But what is the result? There has been squabbling and bickering and, I would go so far as to say, some double-dealing", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS (REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": "emen in Whitehall about the machinery or instruments they should use. That is a vital principle of civil aviation from which this House must never depart. If rumour is true in this case these shotgun weddings are apparently being directed by the Ministry of Supply. In civil and military aviation the Ministry of Supply has been for years the biggest barnacle on the keel of efficiency that ever was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDROELECTRIC BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "sense—and have not permitted the Board to go ahead. For every month's and every year's delay, the costs were rising and everybody was bound to suffer. This House should take power by democratic process in Parliament to dig those heels out. We have allowed this thing for too long while the Board has to pay tribute to every feudal interest, not to mention the nouveaux riches nabobs of the Highlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-27", "file": "debates1958-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "7555c117604be82b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "NORTH OF SCOTLAND HYDROELECTRIC BOARD (REPORT AND ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should there not be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "There is no detail there, but why should there be?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-27a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.191.10", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.191.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.197.7", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Purchase Tax was simplified into three rates and that all the changes which have complicated it since 1951 have been supported in the Division Lobby by the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.197.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " higher rent basis; the landlords have not given them the opportunity even of discussing what might be termed a more adequate rent. The tenants have just been told that, irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the case, out they go in October, 1958. I know that every hon. Member can quote cases of extreme hardship, and that many tragedies have been caused among some of these poor, helpless people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "they had been born and bred. It was the place which recalled happy memories of their childhood; from where they got married and, in some cases, where they brought up their children. Now, through no fault of their own, they are given notice to quit. Some families have lived in the same house for forty or fifty years, and now they are told that they must go. How heartless and wicked and cruel it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "-housed. Therefore, it is particularly difficult, not only for my borough council but for every other London borough; and the same is true of every industrial borough where there is an urgent housing problem. I have had cases referred to me—I have passed some of them on to the Minister—involving old ladies of 70 and 80 years of age. One was even 90. They received notice to quit on their birthdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.213.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hay", "preceding_text": "h to oppose the Motion and I shall be briefer than was the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Lewis). The test is that the House is being asked to consider a Motion of which it has had quite inadequate notice. This Motion appeared on the Order Paper early this morning, it was handed in by the hon. Member last evening. It is, I think, coming rather close to an abuse of the procedure of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.216.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask your guidance? If, as is the case, I give notice in accordance with procedure, and the Clerks at the Table and you, Mr. Speaker, accept that it is in order, is it right for the hon. Member to impute that I am abusing the rules of the House? May I have the protection of the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "re will be many evictions after next October. Even though one may be wrong about that, I consider that the granting of leave to the hon. Member for West Ham, North to introduce this Bill would have a serious effect. During the course of the fifteen months' period, a great many bargains will be struck between landlords and tenants. The evidence available shows that the bargains are reasonably fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": " only the average could be brought up to something approaching their standard, we could make real progress. I should like the Secretary of State to pay particular attention to the situation in St. Lucia, which has this problem, and is probably the most difficult of the islands into which to get capital. There is a particular problem at Fort Vieux because of the de-re-activation of the U.S.A. base.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-28", "file": "debates1958-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab70684f68284678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " be trusted. Nothing has been said tonight that justifies their demand for unanimous confidence of the House of Commons in handling this vast amount of money. What is the purpose for which it is to be borrewd? We can give the Government the right to borrow money only if they tell us the purpose for which it is to be borrowed. Admittedly it has to be borrowed for the development of the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-28a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-29", "file": "debates1958-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "de62404d890a776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-29a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SILICONE FLUIDS (CUSTOMS DUTY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "and of the other manufacturer. There is no doubt that the prices were considerably higher. According to the quantity and the quality, as I understand it, the prices ranged from 2s. to 8s. per lb. above the price at which the same articles were sold in this market. Therefore, we did not make a whole range of duties. We took 4s. as being in the middle of 2s. and 8s., and we think that is about fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-29a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAURITIUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman understand that that blah-blah reply is very far removed from the truth, in so far as the trade unions themselves have made representations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAURITIUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "I should like to deal with the conduct of the Postmaster-General in connection with these revisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAURITIUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Is not it clear from the answers given that there is a very imperfect understanding in the island of how the Whitley machinery ought to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAHAMAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot ride off quite as easily as that. He knows better than anyone else in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I thought that it had already been stated by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—and if not, if I am wrong, I will say so now—that it is not our intention to publish that report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bacon\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "is able to feel that, at some point, the consumer will reap an advantage. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was a little too complacent about retail prices and the consumer's position. He appeared to feel—indeed, he said it—that retail prices had been falling largely because of the help which the Treasury was giving to the industry. I have not noticed it. Just to select one commodity, wheat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "less labour because the efficiency which agriculture has achieved is taken away from it and is not made available to it so that it can offer a competitive wage. We are getting less capital for agriculture because it cannot get the return. It is grinding to a standstill. The Minister says with pride that we had a record production last year. We had an extremely good harvest and it is going forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will wait until I have finished what I have to say, I will give him an opportunity to reply. The fact is that the 1957 Act limits the amount by which any commodities guarantee can be reduced. Further, it limits the total amount by which all commodities can be reduced. The position previously was that any commodity and all commodities could be reduced by any amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-30", "file": "debates1958-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d8cf7f672c2b6e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.592.5", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "They are doing very well, are they not? I thank the hon. Member that is an intelligent explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-30a.592.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-01-31", "file": "debates1958-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "89a634f92a4c5172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PROCEDURE OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Family allowances.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "What was Miss Rathbone's Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-31", "file": "debates1958-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "89a634f92a4c5172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PROCEDURE OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So can we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "e made an enormous contribution through Private Members' Bills. The second point in our Amendment is not such a small one as may at first appear. The fact that we have no agenda is a symbol of the way in which our procedure needs revising. Even in new Parliaments, based on our own, which have recently been set up in Africa, one can look at an Order Paper and find out what the House is about to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-31", "file": "debates1958-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "89a634f92a4c5172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.710.5", "colnum": "710", "heading": "PROCEDURE OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor in journalism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "ading article struck home. Of course there are things in the proceedings of the House which the public can criticise, especially when our proceedings fall to a somewhat fourth-form level. The gibe is always made about the House of Commons being full of little men, and people ask, \"Where are the great men?\" They are certainly not walking about in industry. They are certainly not in the professions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.710.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-31", "file": "debates1958-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "89a634f92a4c5172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "PROCEDURE OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The Admiralty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": " in 1940 in defence of Mr. Neville Chamberlain was made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford. I think it is true that my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford was subject to some degree of isolation by the party, but the party would say, I think, that no more fitting person could have been invited by Mr. Neville Chamberlain on that 3rd September to undertake the Ministry of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-01-31", "file": "debates1958-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "89a634f92a4c5172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "PROCEDURE OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "mmittees in America, and in a different way in France, is largely due to our friend Montesquieu. Their constitution is different from ours. The Executive does not sit, and is not perpetually badgered and bullied, in the Legislature itself. The Executive is not part, as Ministers are here, of the Legislature itself. If these Standing Committees have powers delegated to them in the manner suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-01-31a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "th. I now turn to the question of the Bank of England. The effect of this campaign of rumours on the standing of the City of London and of the Bank of England was clearly very much in the minds of Lord Justice Parker and his colleagues. It must be a source of relief to the whole country that the high reputation which the Bank of England, and the City of London as a whole, have enjoyed for so long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.815.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "d Privy Seal has made a number of personal references to me and I am greatly tempted to reply in kind, but I think it would be more convenient to the House if I speak directly to the Motion, and perhaps reply to the Lord Privy Seal at the end of my remarks. I will give the House this undertaking, that I will deal with every point that the right hon. Gentleman has raised in the course of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ectors of the Bank of England. We did not know they were even involved until we saw the evidence that was produced at the Tribunal. The effect of the Tribunal is to reassure the public, and it is clear from the evidence and statements made to it that there was every need for such reassurance. The pity is that this reassurance did not come earlier. Once rumours had started to circulate in the City—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "iderable sales before the announcement was made, and there is talk of an inquiry into the matter. That was the Manchester Guardian, and we know that the Daily Telegraph, the same morning, claimed to have exclusively forecast a Bank Rate increase. I assume that I now carry hon. Members with me when I say that these statements meant, and could only mean, that there had been a leakage of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ernoon that we should have accepted the Lord Chancellor's report, without even letting us see it. We do not know whom he saw. Did the Prime Minister withhold the letter from the Lord Chancellor, and not show it to him? Did he have the letter and fail to follow it up? Did he, in fact, see the Governor of the Bank of England and be misled? I would not expect that to be the case. Or did he, in fact,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "etary's reply, which came back in 24 hours. It was clear that his inquiry had been perfunctory, and, moreover, by the time he sent his reply, a firm of dealers in the City had published its démarche . We reserved the right to press the matter when the House resumed. Meanwhile, there were other developments. There was the information which reached us about the Pumphrey-Chataway conversation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "phrey-Chataway conversation. [ Laughter. ] I am going to deal with that. Hon. Members should not help me too much on this; they have been very helpful so far, and they look like continuing to be so. A great deal has been said and written about this conversation. The House will realise that it was the duty of the Opposition, once a thing of this kind had reached us, to forward it to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Possible victimisation had been the main concern expressed to us by Mr. Pumphrey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " was nothing to laugh at in that particular point. If there had been, the Lord Chancellor should have offered the reassurance when we asked for it. The Prime Minister insisted that it should be the Lord Chancellor who should look into the matter. Although the Lord Chancellor must already have had the Governor's letter before him, he reported in about ten days that there was no case for an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "wo days after he began his inquiry. I am not suggesting that the Lord Chancellor leaked that; he did not. But, as I have already said, had he taken the Governor's letter seriously there would have been no question but that there would have to be an inquiry. I want to make it clear that the Pumphrey-Chataway case was not one which we pressed on the Tribunal. This is where hon. Members are so wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nnections. What would they have said? Would they have been satisfied with a reply that utterly evaded the issue? But that is not all. The then Chancellor gravely misled the House of Commons. He said, …there was no brief about the Bank Rate\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th November. 1957 Vol 577, c. 765.] But the Tribunal evidence and the Report, which reproduces the brief, shows that there was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I will say right away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ew that I put to the Tribunal in writing and orally, but I recognise that there has been doubt about this, as well as misunderstanding and even misrepresentation. I want, therefore, to repeat to the House this assurance. When I put that question, I did not intend to reflect in any way on the integrity of Mr. Poole; only on the good sense of the Chancellor. I ask the House to accept that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " want, therefore, to repeat to the House this assurance. When I put that question, I did not intend to reflect in any way on the integrity of Mr. Poole; only on the good sense of the Chancellor. I ask the House to accept that assurance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members say that they do not. Very well, let me say this. No hon. Member at the time viewed it in any other way than I have just put it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I recognise the hon. Member as having a close interest in this. He spoke on it on 14th November. If he will allow me to come to the end of this important part of what I am saying, I will gladly give way to him. During the supplementary questions HANSARD showed nine recorded interruptions. There was no interruption recorded at all when I used the phrase which I have just quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Boredom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "me view as Mr. Brand? Although we know beyond doubt that Mr. Poole made no use of any information given to him or any suspicion he may have formed, there is, I think, no doubt that either on leaving the Chancellor, or perhaps on reflecting on these matters afterwards, Mr. Poole did think that the Bank Rate was going up. I notice how silent hon. Members opposite have become in the last few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not by us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": ". I do not rise in the House of Commons to defend my honour in this matter, because, indeed, I do not think that it is at question. The origins of the Tribunal and of this debate will, no doubt be argued by others. Looking back on it, to me the incident is associated with the three words—\"Bank Rate leak.\" Those words were blazoned across the Press of this country and across the Press of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member says that the fact that people were suddenly called to the Chancellor caused some different effects. I am satisfied that my interviews with the Press and their willingness to present this case in the Press overseas had a crucial and satisfactory effect in winning the confidence of people overseas. I want to refer to the bankers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I saw him for exactly the same reason as I saw members of the T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did you see the T.U.C.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I saw him for exactly the same reason as I saw members of the T.U.C. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I saw them in the expectation that they would have presented to them the following morning this policy—which, as I have said, was a controversial and novel policy—and I thought it right and proper that they should be given advance notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "m for exactly the same reason as I saw members of the T.U.C. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I saw them in the expectation that they would have presented to them the following morning this policy—which, as I have said, was a controversial and novel policy—and I thought it right and proper that they should be given advance notice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When did you see the T.U.C.?\"] As regards the Bank of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.8", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "One should not make an accusation of that kind on a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.11", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You have just said, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that I ought not to make a statement of that sort.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.12", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You have just said, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that I ought not to make a statement of that sort.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order.\"]—in raising a point of order with the Chair. The Chair has just said that I ought not to use an expression of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.862.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I said that it was not a point of order. Mr. Thorneycroft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I want to refer to that part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who saw the T.U.C.?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I want to refer to that part of the speech of the right hon. Member for Huyton which dealt with the Bank of England. My point is that the Bank of England is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.10", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did you see the T.U.C.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "What I was trying to do was to make a rather uncontroversal point in regard to the right hon. Gentleman's speech, about the Bank of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.10", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "What I was trying to do was to make a rather uncontroversal point in regard to the right hon. Gentleman's speech, about the Bank of England. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When did you see the T.U.C.?\"] The T.U.C. was seen by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.863.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am speaking to the Motion. I wish to say something about Mr. W. J. Keswick. I feel that acquittals by this Tribunal are probably as lethal as convictions. I believe that Mr. Keswick has suffered very great injustice. He will be known from now on, and nothing can take it off him, as the man who was prepared to sell his country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "k is cross-examined at enormous length as to the basis of his action in advising his Hong Kong clients. In his letter, the matter which he had put almost foremost as the principal reason was that Nigel was so depressing, yet that was totally omitted. I would be intensely interested to know more about it. What business has a right hon. Gentleman holding office in the Treasury to express depression?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "as the cause or one of the causes of the advice that went to Hong Kong which involved doing things which could be injurious and dangerous to sterling and were recognised as such yet not one question was asked about whether the depression was in the right hon. Gentleman's appearance, in what he said, or in what he did. There is another question on page 113. I am just picking these up as I go along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": " to him, and I hope that he will be in his place before long. At any rate, I will defer any reference to him until he has had an opportunity to return. In the meantime, I can refer to the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget). In his case, I do not think that we can accuse him of malice; I think it is sheer irresponsibility. He has, in effect, challenged the finding of this Tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "atter and will consider whether the pressure of opinion, both in this House and outside it—which even he cannot afford to disregard—will show the right hon. Gentleman that it is his duty as a gentleman, indeed as a right hon. Gentleman, to do what the Tribunal plainly hoped he would do, and what this House, I believe, will think he ought to do, and, indeed, might say, if necessary that he must do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman, to do what the Tribunal plainly hoped he would do, and what this House, I believe, will think he ought to do, and, indeed, might say, if necessary that he must do—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] I will be glad to explain why and how—that is, to make a frank and honest apology for the very serious damage he has done, whether wittingly or unwittingly as the Tribunal says, at least to one man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": " very serious damage he has done, whether wittingly or unwittingly as the Tribunal says, at least to one man—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] I know that some hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like this, but they are going to have it. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will decide to apologise to one man, at any rate, who has been abominably treated—Mr. Oliver Poole. I hold no brief for Mr. Oliver Poole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about being priggish when we are dealing with a man's honour which has been impugned. My ideas on this subject are different from those of the hon. Gentleman, and so, I believe, are those of a vast number of people in this country. In this House on 12th November last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.881.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "reditable character to another hon. Member which he has not disclosed. I must ask both sides of the House to keep to that rule. We are not entitled to do that to each other, and it is proper that it should be so. As far as I could hear the speech of the right hon. and learned Member, I thought he was merely saying that the words of the right hon. Member might have landed him in these consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.882.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.883.8", "colnum": "883", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, I could not he in the House on that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.883.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.883.11", "colnum": "883", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "dealing with this question of improper motives and the circumstances in which an hon. Member could attribute improper motives to another hon. Member, surely raised the question, on the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech in relation to my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson), that, quite necessarily, he had been guilty of an improper motive, because it necessarily follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.883.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.887.5", "colnum": "887", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "ecial damage—which I think, might have been a great advantage to Mr. Poole. There is, of course, no doubt at all about what the result would have been. Now that we have gone through this rather rough water, I hope that the House will appreciate the very serious importance of the matter. I have no doubt whatever that the legal answer is what I have given. At any rate, let us assume that I am right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.887.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.888.4", "colnum": "888", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "No; I am sorry. That being the position, what is the result of it? There is no doubt at all that the right hon. Gentleman has abused his Privilege. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was quite right in saying that we cannot allow Privilege to be used as a protection for defamation. That is what has been done here, without any question at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.888.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.888.7", "colnum": "888", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I apologise for using the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.888.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.889.5", "colnum": "889", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "ainst my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). The reason is this. Supposing that my right hon. Friend was not protected by the doctrine of absolute Privilege, it would still be necessary, in order to establish liability for defamation against him in the courts, to show that he was not protected by the ordinary law of qualified privilege. The ordinary law of qualified privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.889.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "irect statement or attack, but by imputation that these men were dishonest. They have been proved, in one of the most rending experiences for a man, to be innocent. The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East (Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas) will agree, I think, that the cross-examination by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General was, quite properly, as brutal as any of Vyshinsky's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.923.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": " a man, to be innocent. The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East (Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas) will agree, I think, that the cross-examination by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General was, quite properly, as brutal as any of Vyshinsky's. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] That is bound to be so in this kind of tribunal. We saw precisely the same thing when Sir Hartley Shawcross had to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.923.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am pointing out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.943.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-03", "file": "debates1958-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3a4ffa04fc1fbee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.943.7", "colnum": "943", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "What about me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-03a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ung children. It might be for the convenience of the House if, at this midway point in what has been a fairly rough debate, and which may yet still be a rough debate, I try to define some of the main issues that have arisen in its course. On one main issue there is, happily, no difference between the two sides of the House. We all unhesitatingly accept the conclusions and findings of the Tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " may not have been individual cases in which dealings were prompted by the improper disclosure for use of confidential information. Those words must have some meaning. I do not know what meaning they bear. They begin, Although we have come to the conclusion … They are quite out of accord with the general tenor of the Report and I raise the matter, because I cannot understand what they mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. If red herrings are to be referred to, surely the right hon. Gentleman should get his facts right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.992.6", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except The Times .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "t bulk of those transactions is now done by the joint stock banks. At least one conclusion emerges with which, I think, there will be little disagreement. It is that part-time directors should be drawn from a very much wider circle than now. Another example of old-fashionedness is this stupid insistence on announcing changes of Bank Rate on Thursdays, so that everybody gets \"het up\" on Wednesdays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.992.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is necessary to go so far back as 1931. In 1950, in my then official capacity, I was given advance Budget information by officials working under Sir Stafford Cripps as Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Agnew", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman failing to recognise that the T.U.C. is affiliated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.997.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member allow me to interrupt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "on to say, \"Let us not have an inquiry.\" One point of some small importance is the position of the unfortunate Mr. Pumphrey. All our common law and much of our case law is based upon the conception of what is a reasonable man—the man on the Clapham bus, the man who does what he ought to do, the man who behaves like a figment of the imagination. Nobody had ever met him until Mr. Pumphrey turned up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "—the man on the Clapham bus, the man who does what he ought to do, the man who behaves like a figment of the imagination. Nobody had ever met him until Mr. Pumphrey turned up. [ Laughter. ] This really is not funny; I am trying to be serious. Here is a man who does everything he ought to do. He hears something which may be relevant. He passes it on to the appropriate quarter, my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Divided loyalty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " relevant. He passes it on to the appropriate quarter, my right hon. Friend. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, my right hon. Friend passed it on to the Prime Minister. Are hon. Gentlemen opposite dissatisfied with that? Why not? After all, it involved' the Conservative Central Office and there was a mild suggestion at the time that it had some interest in the matter. Surely it was the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ttee, moved an Amendment incorporating a reference to the Official Secrets Act which was defeated by the Committee. His sole supporter was the present Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, Mr. Oliver Poole, who was then a Member, having the courage and the decency to vote against it. I do not want to convey the impression that I am trying to suggest anything that I am not trying to suggest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": ". She stood there, surreptitiously scratching herself in various odd quarters, and then found that every scratch was a bid and that she had bought nearly all that was for sale. She came out with a pile of Roman bric-à-brac which included a genuine Horatius and a Spurius Lartius. I do not want to be disrespectful, but supposing Lord Kindersley had suffered from one of those incipient winks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": " think that the last sentence and paragraph of his letter was unwisely drafted, I think that Mr. Keswick was trying to express a perfectly honourable frame of mind. If I may say in my own words what I think he was trying to say—I am doing this without consulting Mr. Keswick—it would be, \"Reluctant as I am to give you this advice which seems to be anti-British, I must on commercial grounds advise\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Although he said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "d that he never thought of postponing the Vickers issue. What I have tried to show from the evidence—there are other passages which give the same answer—is that it is clear that Lord Kindersley's aim in discussing this was to put the point that he felt it wrong for the two to be done together. That is a completely different thing. That is not a picture of a man preferring his own narrow interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1030.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "spot. Will the Opposition agree that Lord Kindersley acted throughout not only in the highest traditions of the City, but wholly patriotically, and there was never any case in which he put personal, firm, or City interests before the national interest? I presume that that is what the right hon. Gentleman is now saying. The last point I want to make refers again to the right hon. Member for Huyton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1030.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "d the Member for Huyton that he should make a statement to this effect: \"After looking at this again and in view of what the right hon. and learned Member for Chertsey said yesterday, I realise that, although I did not mean it, the words used on 14th November about Mr. Oliver Poole could have been taken and were taken as casting a serious imputation against him. I much regret this and I am sorry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1030.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "gilt-edged than they sold. In the case of the Royal Exchange Assurance—I happen to know something about insurance—the need for liquidity was not, as the right hon. Member for Smethwick today and the hon. Member for Lewisham, North last night inferred, anything to do with the financial situation of the country. It was a need for liquidity at a given moment in the perfectly ordinary way of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not allowed to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": " shares, which could quite easily have happened. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It did not.\"' I am not saying that it did. I am asking hon. Members to suppose that it did. It could easily have happened. Trade unions, which hold large funds, as they must do, in the way of reserves, pension funds, benefit funds and so on, must buy and sell on the gilt-edged market and the Stock Exchange the same as everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": " and the truth of the matter is that there is nothing in the least dishonest or dishonourable about it. Again, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North (Sir T. Low) pointed out, Mr. Keswick's company was not even a United Kingdom company. It was a Hong Kong company. To suggest that companies in British Colonies must be ordered what to do from London is the worst kind of colonialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Strachey) wrote an article on this point two or three years ago and said what must surely be in the minds of hon. Gentlemen opposite. If they go on talking the way they have been talking and saying the things they have been saying, a General Election, with a Gallup poll showing them in the lead, will result in the greatest collapse of sterling we have ever had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "point two or three years ago and said what must surely be in the minds of hon. Gentlemen opposite. If they go on talking the way they have been talking and saying the things they have been saying, a General Election, with a Gallup poll showing them in the lead, will result in the greatest collapse of sterling we have ever had. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course it will. It will not be anything to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Sunday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "ial experts or economists is that there was, or appeared to be, intolerable delay before action was taken to stop the outflow of the reserves. My next point which was mentioned by the hon. Member for Somerset, North relates to the time of the announcement. I agree that Friday is a much better day than Thursday, but in my view Saturday would be a better day than Friday to make such an announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "een done. Montagu Norman still runs it, in spite of the change. There may be arguments both ways about part-time directors, but the schizophrenia element is too difficult for most people to cope with. Lord Justice Parker himself came to the conclusion that the dual loyalty was too much to thrust upon any man. He practically said as much in answer to a question; that was the view that he expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "sting thing and I hope that I do not do it. If any of us had tried to get in at that point by raising a point of order, everyone opposite would have howled at us that we were trying to shut down the discussion, and Mr. Speaker would quite properly have rebuked us. All this becomes relevant when we read what happened the following day. On the following day the Prime Minister used a good many words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " most disgraceful act of corruption was committed by Mr. Poole…\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th November, 1957; Vol 577, c. 965–7.] Then it becomes necessary to appoint an inquiry. After a day's reflection, right hon. Gentlemen opposite talked about this, but they did not then say, \"Why did we not stop it? Why not interrupt?\" Nobody said that it was not true. They did not protest against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I hope that, although I have not spoken as clearly as I hope I sometimes do, I have made the point clear enough to everybody here, and I hope that anybody who will read my speech candidly will see what the point is. I do not suppose that it is the NA hole truth, and I do not flatter myself that it is unanswerable, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "preceding_text": "n … That is true enough, and his integrity has not been challenged. The statement by the right hon. Gentleman continued by saying that Mr. Pumphrey's … intelligence and sense of responsibility can be vouched for by a number of well-known persons, including Lord Attlee. … I do not think that many of us would recognise in that the description of Mr. Pumphrey at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The most charitable explanation is that the way in which these inquiries were conducted was extremely slovenly, but most people will say that it was, in fact, a deliberate attempt to cover up the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am not disclosing the proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am not disclosing the proceedings—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—of the Lord Chancellor. As I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the letter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t that part-time directors can be effective advisers if they are not given the information upon which to base their advice. It is really quite unrealistic to say anything of the kind. Without any doubt, the examination of this system by the Radcliffe Committee is the best way to get what the Tribunal referred to, an exhaustive statement of the evidence on this subject. I turn next to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "d now. The only other point raised on the question of the journalists is whether there is a chance of private gain by risk of a leakage of information. I think that people who pitch this risk of a leakage too high, as the hon. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) did on more than one occasion, rather underestimate the extraordinary sense of honour which runs through the whole of the British Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " chance of private gain by risk of a leakage of information. I think that people who pitch this risk of a leakage too high, as the hon. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) did on more than one occasion, rather underestimate the extraordinary sense of honour which runs through the whole of the British Press. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I believe it is true that Ministers have found this so consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "isk of a leakage too high, as the hon. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) did on more than one occasion, rather underestimate the extraordinary sense of honour which runs through the whole of the British Press. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I believe it is true that Ministers have found this so consistently—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is perfectly true, and I am sorry that the Opposition do not think so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) did on more than one occasion, rather underestimate the extraordinary sense of honour which runs through the whole of the British Press. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I believe it is true that Ministers have found this so consistently—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is perfectly true, and I am sorry that the Opposition do not think so—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. I must ask hon. Members to listen to the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. I must ask hon. Members to listen to the reply—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Order. Hon. Members should not interrupt me when I am speaking. The Leader of the Opposition was listened to perfectly quietly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. I must ask hon. Members to listen to the reply—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Order. Hon. Members should not interrupt me when I am speaking. The Leader of the Opposition was listened to perfectly quietly—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Order. At least, as long as I was in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You cannot take it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.5", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t contain any reference to the world-famous companies which were involved, and the well-known Directors of the Bank of England who were connected with those companies. It is those matters together which have to be borne in mind, and also the arrangement of that letter. It is not for me to say, but the Tribunal might take the view that the arrangement of that letter was such as to make it appear,\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.7", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "whether intentionally or accidentally, that really these City transactions were of a very minor character and capable of adequate investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.8", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "He goes on to say that had he known, the Prime Minister might have called for a full inquiry. We want to know whether that letter was given to the Lord Chancellor, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1109.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, This is not the way to conduct a debate. Hon. Members must realise that time is running short. The right hon. Gentleman who has the Floor of the House, the Paymaster-General, has been very much interrupted. In common fairness, he ought to get the chance to say what he has to say. If he does not answer a specific question, that is no reason for holding up the rest of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1110.7", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The Paymaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1110.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1110.11", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I should be grateful if the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1110.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1111.6", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1111.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1111.10", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not the custom of this House, when a right hon. Gentleman is named and misrepresented by another hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1111.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1111.12", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "uestion followed the other and I should have thought that the imputation was as clear as daylight to anyone except the right hon. Gentleman. I accept the right hon. Gentleman's assurance which he gave us yesterday that he did not intend in any way to reflect on the integrity of Mr. Poole. Mr. Poole thought he had and so, I should have thought, would the vast majority of the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1111.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is her", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e, I think connected, and which, I believe, raise a substantial point with regard to the proper conduct of our affairs in this House. After the announcement of the figures in the first Division there were a number of cries from the benches opposite—I do not identify the hon. Members who uttered them, though I know who they are—directed at my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I know who they are—directed at my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is her] They were utterances which, I am quite certain, you would regard in themselves as not being in order. I gather that those shouts and epithets were the direct consequence of the last part of the speech of the Paymaster-General who wound up the debate on behalf of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " does it in proper form and according to the prescriptions of our time-honoured procedure. He said that the vote which we were about to take was not a vote either on the Motion submitted by the Government or on the Amendment submitted by my right hon. Friends, but was really on a quite different question. He said that this was really a vote of censure on my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "BANK RATE TRIBUNAL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "is case. I want to ask you, Sir, whether the right hon. Gentleman who wound up the debate for the Government was in order and was right in what he said, that anything the House has done tonight can, in our practice in the House, properly be described or, could ever have been described, as a debate on a Motion of censure on my right hon. Friend. I think that, for the honour of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-04", "file": "debates1958-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "b55f8ac1aab15ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "CHURCH SCHOOLS (ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ndividual Member of the House, but I should be inclined to vote that way. However, considerable doubts have been cast upon the matter. I have to choose thus: I can go home, and leave this to the Churchmen in the House to vote; or I can exercise my right and vote upon an issue upon which, I regret to say, I am not nearly as fully informed as those who have been reading briefs obviously distributed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-04a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-05", "file": "debates1958-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe0cfac9360dba57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "the Air Transport Advisory Council in favour of the independent operators? Is he aware that in view of this remarkable increase it is quite wrong that the shipping interests, which are the financial backers of the independent operators, should be represented on the boards of the two public Corporations and also on the licensing body, the Air Transport Advisory Council? Does he realise that B.E.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-05", "file": "debates1958-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe0cfac9360dba57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (CONTINUATION OF TENANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "I want to quote only one sentence from the report of the speech made by the hon. Member for Hendon, North (Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing) at a meeting that these tenants held. He said: It was not feasible…that thousands should be turned out of their homes and he added that he would lead a delegation of M.P.s to the landlord's agents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-05", "file": "debates1958-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe0cfac9360dba57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (CONTINUATION OF TENANCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-05", "file": "debates1958-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe0cfac9360dba57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "ories which, according to an hon. Member, would find it awkward after they had emerged to seek help from the Colonial Development Corporation, one ought to remember that it is always open to the C.D.C. if it wishes to conduct its operations in a particular territory or country through a subsidiary company under whatever name is considered appropriate. We know that the Corporation is alive to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-05a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that the Borough of Ilford has been singled out in the way my hon. Friend suggests. The Commissioner of Police tries to enforce the law in a reasonable spirit. Many of the vehicles concerned, not only in the Borough of Ilford but elsewhere, are vehicles that are not in current use. They are either unlicensed or not in running order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "cial of The Suffolk County Fire Brigade is quoted as saying that the Suffolk Fire Service has …had a good deal of experience, unfortunately, of crashed aircraft—only too frequently American\"? Is it not very essential that all necessary steps should be taken and all instructions given to deal with the dangers that arise from aircraft that may be returning from training or special operations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1349.3", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "Did I understand from the Minister that there is still a large number sleeping three in a cell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1355.5", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "ctive people who give wonderful service, quite voluntarily, to assist their union movement and to help those for whom they work to have better conditions. When I listen to lectures given to trade unionists I am led to believe that those who speak to them imagine that the trade union movement is composed entirely of trained economists when, in fact, trade unionists are very ordinary, decent people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "10s. 6d. These are not high rates of pay, and I am bound to say, on behalf of all these people, that if they had exercised their power in a sellers' market, with full employment, the position being as it has been since the war, these rates—if Tory freedom had worked for them would—have been twice what they are today. I say that considerable restraint has been exercised by the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " per cent. and prices by 44 per cent. Why did it happen? How does it come about that if world prices are coming down the consumer at home pays more? The answer is because the Government, in following their slogan of \"Tory freedom works\", decided to shift the incidence of taxation from the shoulders of those who could bear it most easily to the great mass of workers about whom we are talking today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Member for Monmouth. It may well be that he does not interpret his own words as they have been interpreted outside, but I assure him that the words which he used—and which I have with me, if anyone wishes them to be quoted—seemed to serve notice on the trade union movement that arbitrators, in cases of arbitration, should not give increases in pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " consulted his senior colleagues. This was political interference with the free negotiating machinery that has been painfully built up. In rather different circumstances, the right hon. Member for Monmouth resigned from the Government when he felt that the Cabinet was letting him down, whereas the Minister of Labour preferred to stay in, probably because he valued his future political advancement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "interest\" or \"consumer interest\" which seems to me formidable if not actually decisive. If we say that the national interest should be represented at the tribunal we come straight into the question, \"National interest as defined by whom?\" That, presumably, can only mean by Ministers, and Ministers change and Governments change, and perhaps the conception of the national interest changes with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Health Service?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "er, the situation would have deteriorated rapidly and we might very well by now have seen the beginning of real unemployment. The Government are not deliberately—this accusation has been made by certain hon. Members—restricting production in order to create unemployment. This is a very unworthy suggestion, from whatever quarter it comes. Nor are the Government committed to a policy of wage-freeze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that correction, but I did realise that. Too often in the public mind it appears that all that arbitrators do after days or weeks spent in deliberation, is to take the figure asked for by the unions and the figure offered by the employers, divide it roughly by two and award the resulting figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "rade unions are now accepted by the general public as part of society. The trend of feeling is that they must be welded into society. Their future standing in the community and the respect in which they are held will depend upon the vigour which they exert in keeping their own house in order. This brings me to my own backdoor—the E.T.U., of which I am a member. The badge of my union, which I wear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "hich any trade unionist will agree. The rules of a union should always conform to minimum standards consistent with individual freedom. I know that some of the older hands with whom I have worked have said to me that we have gone through very difficult periods during which we had employers who would not have a trade unionist within the gates. They have said that we fought for years for that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "They must have very little confidence as it stands if all that the Minister is doing is to draw the attention of the arbitrator to one of his duties which he will perform, anyhow. The truth of the matter is that arbitrators, on the whole, I suspect—although it cannot be more than a suspicion— do not do this at present, and that seems to be the best opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "them out to save the time of the debate, but do not let us forget that they were made and repeated. Let us not forget the view that was expressed that the trade unions were to be singled out for attack. I have a whole host of cuttings about what has been said. Let us turn to what was said by Lord Mills, the Minister of Power; and I understand that I must not quote from a Minister in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "chen belonging to the Postmaster-General: The kitchen which Ernest had perfected before the couple married…is U-shaped. It has the latest of everything. There is a deepfreeze, a refrigerator big enough to walk into, and a deep fry like a fish shop's. There is a double-size gas cooker and an electric oven, two sinks, a washing machine—the lot. Who is being paid too much for doing too little?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Include Shawcross.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " whilst builders are getting around £7 a week. Yet there are all over London at this moment people who occupy permanent suites in the Grosvenor, in the Dorchester and elsewhere, all of them being paid for by somebody, all of them inflationary, and they are not our people. My point about this article, which millions have read, is that it is no use telling people who are getting £7, £8 or £9 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "order of £85–£100 million, means a redistribution from one group in the community—by and large, the poorer group—to another group. All this is evidence to show that the people whose standards have increased are the rentiers, those who live on rents, interest and profits. It is these which, by and large, are the inflationary increases. Most of this has come from deliberate Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nment want the worker to be prepared to pull harder against the collar, they must convince him that the rewards will flow, that if he does it we can all live together because there will be more to share out and that the aim is to have an expansionist policy. None of these things have the Government done; they have provided exactly the opposite pull. I want to say one more thing about productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "cannot do it. Look at Government policy. At 7 per cent. it cannot be done. With restricted credit we cannot do it. We cannot get the money to do it. With the whole pressure in the direction of withholding effort we cannot do it.\" The Government must set the economic and industrial pattern within which management can work and within which we can play our part. None of that are the Government doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "believe are serious matters affecting the future of industrial relations. I want to keep the more controversial part to a minimum, and to get it over first. I think the House ought to look at the terms of the Motion which we are debating. It blames the Government's policy for …producing growing economic difficulties. In January, the gold and dollar reserves increased by 130 million dollars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "erately shifted the burden of food subsidy. He went on to say that the Labour Government meant to shift the burden back again. Only ten days ago, the Leader of the Opposition was asked a direct question in a television interview and he gave an equally direct answer. He said that he would not restore the food subsidies. If it is wrong to restore them, how could it have been so wrong to remove them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Health Service workers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "arbitration. My right hon. Friend dealt with that charge fully and faithfully in his speech. He pointed out that, on the giving of instructions to negotiating bodies, the Labour Government went a great deal further than anything the present Government have done. Let me reaffirm most sincerely that the Government believe in the value of arbitration. As employers, we will respect arbitration awards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I cannot think that following the right hon. Member for Belper down his dangerous and violent path would contribute anything to the good of anybody in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-06", "file": "debates1958-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46fe2f74fd6ea23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "owers to command the fixing of wages and the movement of labour which would be intolerable in a free society. Nevertheless, while believing in our system of free collective bargaining, I am equally certain that we cannot be complacent about how our present system works at the moment nor, I am sure, should the House be complacent. There are a number of questions to which we ought to seek an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-06a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-10", "file": "debates1958-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "33d8e69b46051263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND POWERS (DEFENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "is. As to the acquisition of land for oil installations, for which provision is made in Clause 13, we must be sure that this is done only as a last resort. The Government must examine every possibility of using disused railway lines and canals which would not necessitate new and expensive works. There are even areas where pipelines could be laid at the side of railway lines which are still in use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-10", "file": "debates1958-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "33d8e69b46051263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "FOOD HYGIENE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "t special, horrible places where dirty tricks are played. The hon. Member for Greenock, or the hon. Member for Birmingham, All Saints (Mr. D. Howell), who interrupted him, said that he would be opposed to all preparation in food in the home. Where do hon. Members expect the ordinary, average housewife to prepare her food if not in a home? Must homes he denied to future generations under Socialism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-10", "file": "debates1958-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "33d8e69b46051263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "FOOD HYGIENE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " café proprietors operate. It is the experience of local authorities that this standard is inadequate. If it is a wash-hand basin specifically reserved for the person preparing the food, that is one thing, but if it is a wash-hand basin used for personal hygiene in the morning, for cleaning napkins in the afternoon and for cleaning onions in the evening, that is an entirely different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-10", "file": "debates1958-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "33d8e69b46051263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "FOOD HYGIENE", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I thought I heard my hon. Friend say that his right hon. Friend, meaning the Minister, had accepted the view that outworking must be brought to an end. Did he say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-10", "file": "debates1958-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "33d8e69b46051263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "FOOD HYGIENE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "What I was endeavouring to make clear was that my right hon. Friend accepts that outworking as a practice is far from ideal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-10", "file": "debates1958-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "33d8e69b46051263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.148.4", "colnum": "148", "heading": "FOOD HYGIENE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sterilising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": " Incidentally, the onions return to the factory in the manufacturer's own transport—to answer the hon. Member for All Saints. The usual drill is for the manufacturer to send his transport to collect them from the outworkers. They are then immersed in vinegar, a process which, to a great extent, has the effect of immobilising or negativing—I do not know whether those are the correct clinical terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-10a.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "That may be so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.184.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend has said that many local authorities take the view that caravans provide sub-standard accommodation, will he make it clear that that is not the view of his Department, but that it takes the view that caravan accommodation is often superior to accommodation in private houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.189.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Orbach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Orbach", "preceding_text": "hich any hon. Member may make in the House, whether they be directors of 20, 30, or 40 property companies, will all be made in the public interest and not because of any special interest which hon. Members may serve outside the Chamber. I hope that it will be recognised that in speaking to the Motion I am charged with motives directed purely to serving the common weal. My direct personal interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "tting tenants were paying £190 and £180 respectively. Having bought the property for £950, the landlord took the best of the three flats. As soon as the monstrous Rent Act was passed he offered new leases to the two other tenants. He said: \"You can stay for a period of three or seven years provided you are prepared to pay £450 each per annum exclusive of rates, and be responsible for all repairs.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.211.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "We must face the position frankly. I do not doubt the sincerity of the hon. Gentleman's concern for all old people who may be evicted under the Act, but I am convinced that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends are doing a very grave disservice to the people they seek to help by their speeches in this House and outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.216.4", "colnum": "216", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "d person alternative accommodation. I believe that many people would be willing to come forward and offer that accommodation but for the fact that the Opposition treat anyone who lets accommodation as a villain. The best service which hon. Members opposite could render to tenants would be to withdraw their threats to repeal the Rent Act and to withdraw their lunatic proposals for municipalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "My whole argument is directed to the point that the Opposition are encouraging the evictions which they now seek to delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes, but a general argument against altering the Act at all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-11", "file": "debates1958-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "08d0c03152453d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (RELIEF IN CASES OF OLD AGE AND LONG OCCUPATION OR OF GRAVE HARDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "—so that others will become available for letting. Some unfurnished accommodation is already coming into the market in some areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-11a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not think it desirable that I should discuss what the arrangements within N.A.T.O. are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister of Defence aware that that reply is far from satisfactory? Will he bear in mind that there are many people of moderate views in this country who feel that it would be a suicidal policy to have missile bases anywhere in Britain, particularly if the Americans have the last word? In view of the revelations about the slackness of our Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Of course the hon. Member will get an answer. The answer is that the terms of the agreement will be fully published.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Of course the hon. Member will get an answer. The answer is that the terms of the agreement will be fully published.—[ Interruption. ]—I dare say that I could give reassuring Answers to lots of the Questions put to me, but it is a thoroughly improper thing when negotiations between two Governments are not completed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand from that that the matter is still fluid? Is my right hon. Friend aware that I think that all Governments have treated these widows absolutely scandalously, and is he aware further that, if I could find a way of voting against the Government on this issue I would gladly do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Since 19th December, however, there have been developments. Whilst admittedly our own record is tarnished by what has happened in Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The nationalisation of steel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "rical terms of the Amendment on the Order Paper. The proposals to which both sides were ready to give further consideration, as set out in that Command Paper, certainly do not give the impression that anyone thought of an Upper House which would frustrate and obstruct the will of the elected representatives of the people. Nor does the record of the Upper House in recent times bear this out at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " There is, first, the question whether or not there should be a second Chamber. There may be differences of opinion on that subject; do not imagine that they need necessarily be all on one side of the House. There is one distinguished member of the Conservative Party who had rather definite views on this matter some years ago. The right hon. Member for Wood-ford, speaking in 1909, had this to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. and gallant Member's electors in the Isle of Ely will realise that one of the persons who has behaved badly and thrown money about this place and disgraced the honourable position of a Member of Parliament is the hon. and gallant Member himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ous, and disingenuous expedient of giving the House of Lords a new look without altering its character, its power, or its function. This Bill is the result. No doubt the recruitment of eminent men and women from various spheres of activity will strengthen the other place Every recruit of distinction will help to make it more respectable and, therefore, more dangerous and less vulnerable to attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "y that there is no more need to reform it; that a little Measure of this kind will do, that there is no need to reform the House of Lords because it has reformed itself. It is not that the House of Lords has changed: it is the instinct of self-preservation that has made it cautious, canny, careful. Hon. Gentlemen opposite know that that is true. They have had some very rude shocks in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "is silly, futile experiment at the end of an era? I hope that the House will cogitate in Committee and on Report, and see if it cannot amend the Bill. But if we cannot make a satisfactory Bill of it, for heaven's sake, let us drop it. There was an occasion when, in Charles II's time, a Measure of this sort introduced by Cromwell was done away with, for reasons which are very difficult to find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "the people who are likely candidates for life peerages. The donkey work in Committee is done by the people who are willing to regard Parliament and Parliamentary work as their first call. If a lot of nominated people are to be put into the House of Lords, why need the hereditary peers be there at all? There is no need for them. It is not for me to suggest what should be done with hereditary peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Should that apply here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "s out-of-pocket expenses. The peers should perhaps get £1,000, or that sort of figure, as pay, plus three guineas a day out-of-pocket expenses on the days they attend, but I think they should get the £1,000 only for maximum attendance. If they attended only on 50 per cent. of the sittings, they should be paid £500. If they attended on only 25 per cent. of the sitting days they should be paid £250.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-12", "file": "debates1958-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d0846bf5a490f314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "r of Members who have no party allegiance. Some people may take the view that that is a good thing, and others may say that it is not, but it is clear that in the House of Lords party ties are not nearly so strong. There are a great many more Members in the House of Lords who are entirely independent. I have heard it said that in the House of Lords the Conservatives cannot issue a three-line Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-12a.518.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.565.7", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Is the President of the Board of Trade saying that a merger of the Commonwealth, the United States and Europe is not a matter of policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.565.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gaitskell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.575.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.575.6", "colnum": "575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.576.7", "colnum": "576", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, I am glad to say, will be back tomorrow morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.576.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary returns today from Athens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary returns today from Athens. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] We are just as keen as hon. Members opposite that progress should be made in this intractable and difficult problem. We should all applaud the efforts and courage of my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary in his recent endeavours to find a solution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": ", if not this, year. They are asking us to do that without even giving us any kind of indication of their purpose in numbers and composition. It is too preposterous of the Government to expect us to view with any degree of content a proposal of that sort. It is a proposal made to us on the morrow of Rochdale and on the eve of a General Election which will almost certainly sweep us back into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Find what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "t a Labour Government were bound to meet the constant and bitter opposition of the House of Lords. The truth is that the reason the Parliament Act of 1949 was passed in the terms it was, and the reason our debate today is proceeding in a relatively minor key compared with debates on the House of Lords in times gone by, is that when it came to the point a Labour Government did not find that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "no good purpose would be served by any formal consultation with right hon. Gentlemen opposite about this Bill. I would like to say a word about the comments of the Leader of the Opposition concerning the possibility of further talks. He threw it out as a possibility. The most informal method possible would, I think, be found to be the most fruitful if it is desired to make progress on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Certainly not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Patronising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ulties of an Opposition in carrying out their duties when they are very severely reduced in numbers. I can well remember at that time the strict instructions given—I was his Parliamentary Private Secretary then—by the late Mr. Stanley Baldwin, that our party was to observe the strictest courtesy towards the Opposition to help them in carrying out their duties under these considerable difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "rrying out their duties under these considerable difficulties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Patronising.\"] It is not being patronising; it is simply being straightforward. In the House of Lords, also, the numbers of the Opposition are very small. I would therefore like to make our position plain. We have not brought forward this Bill to assist the Opposition. That view was corrected by the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "d this Bill to assist the Opposition. That view was corrected by the Leader of the House. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry; have got the reference here. Our position is that we want to help to bring forward a Measure which will assist in the work of the House of Lords. It happens that this Measure is likely to be of considerable assistance to the Opposition in carrying out their constitutional duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "than that we should depend upon heredity for the appointment of legislators. The system is out-of-date. Last night the argument was put forward that the antiquity of the House of Lords was a strong point for its retention, because it was established in 1295. On that argument we would have retained slavery, feudalism and poverty. Antiquity is not an argument for the retention of the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": " number of Ministers in the House of Lords. That should go, whether or not we reform the House of Lords in the near future. I should have thought that opinion had crystallised well enough upon some such solution as I have put forward for the Government to come forward with something better than this miserable Bill. Why have they not? It is because of the snobbery on the other side of this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "the other side of this Chamber. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, it is. The real reason is that Members opposite want to see hereditary peers still created. They believe in the peerage. What hon. Members opposite fear is that, if we take away from them the right to sit in the House of Lords the peers will become a social anachronism, looking very silly, merely an outpost of snobbery in the modern world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Richard Pilkington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Richard Pilkington", "preceding_text": "ion. Today, there are something over 800 peers in a population of about 50 million. It has been rightly said that the majority of noble Lords do not attend the other place, but I do not think that it can be denied that this bloc of hereditary peers at least forms, if I may use the term again, a great reservoir of experience and knowledge such as is equalled by no other second Chamber in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. For many years, we who now sit on this side of the House thought that it was not the hon. Member's party but the Whigs that kept us out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " reasonable to Government supporters when it delays Socialist legislation. That is what has happened in the past. We would be wise to consider the existing powers of the House of Lords, no matter what may happen to the Bill. We had to amend the Parliament Act on the last occasion because the Lords used their powers. It may be necessary, in an emergency, for legislation to go through quite quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not try to wriggle out of his own difficulties like that. I put the question to him twice today and on the second occasion he said that he would consult HANSARD. I hope that HANSARD has taken it down properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman really cannot get away with chang- ing the question. I am trying to discover what position the Opposition is taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Rent Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "esponsible people. Let me briefly run over them. To summarise, we need a second Chamber to examine and revise Bills brought from this House; to initiate comparatively non-controversial Measures; to interpose so much delay—and no more—in the passage of Bills which affect the Constitution, introduce new principles of legislation or raise issues on which the opinion of the country is equally divided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " the question of delay, on which a considerable number of hon. Members have spoken, let me give the reason why I say that hon. Members opposite have got themselves into a contradictory position. They, or most of them, seem to agree that the powers of revision are desirable and useful in a second Chamber. They certainly have been in the years since the war. I will not go over all the figures again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " humility that the party opposite takes the advice of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Bristol, South-East and does some serious thinking as to what it means. It is clear from the last two debates that the party opposite has no idea what it means. The fact is that, however lacking it may be in logic for these modern days, the House of Lords is, and has been for years, an extremely effective body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Bristol, South-East and does some serious thinking as to what it means. It is clear from the last two debates that the party opposite has no idea what it means. The fact is that, however lacking it may be in logic for these modern days, the House of Lords is, and has been for years, an extremely effective body. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, effective in every way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ed Gentleman the Member for Newport (Sir F. Soskice). He asked these questions: Does the Bill leave the other House overwhelmingly hereditary? How many life peers will be created? What will the composition be at any given moment? I respect the right hon. and learned Gentleman too much to believe that these really represent the questions he had in mind. He knows quite well that they are irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "How many life peers will be created? What will the composition be at any given moment? I respect the right hon. and learned Gentleman too much to believe that these really represent the questions he had in mind. He knows quite well that they are irrelevant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The answer is that this Bill is not designed in anybody's mind to get a precise balance of party in the other House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "the right hon. and learned Gentleman it would be extraordinary, Of course that is not the object of the Bill. The object of the Bill is to make it possible to get a wider representation in the conditions of today of people in different walks of life and the professions, since there is general agreement that they are needed in the House of Lords. That deals with those three questions straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "uestions. That would rest in the decision of the Prime Minister of the day, working in the light of circumstances and in the availability of suitable individuals to go into the House of Lords. The next point which the right hon. and learned Gentleman raised was, will it be easier to get life peers than hereditary ones? I should have thought the answer was quite simple. Of course it will be easier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I have not said anything about what it will be. I have said that it is not in the Bill and that the comments and statements made about salaries have been among the outstanding features of the debate and will be very carefully and duly noted. I have spent much time dealing with the general and not enough with the particular, but I have answered the questions which the right hon. Gentleman asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-13", "file": "debates1958-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "b6265d13866cabcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "that, because I think that there is no hope. Are we now dealing with a Labour Party which is completely split on the issue of a second Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-13a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.850.8", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "Certainly, we hope, in the long years which lie before the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.850.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman should await the composition of the committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is admitted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can usefully add at this stage to what I have said. That may or may not be the outcome of the inquiry, but it would be unfair, to put it on no other ground, to the boards of these nationalised undertakings for the House now to assume that they have not done what they ought to have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aubrey Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aubrey Jones", "preceding_text": "strengthening of units in the aircraft industry, partly so as to enhance their competitive ability overseas, partly so as to relieve their dependence on Government finance for projects beyond the present. The ideal unit would possess considerable financial, technical and production resources, and, by being part of a diversified industrial structure, would command readier access to private capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "—to landlords in respect of increased rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Board does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "seful public duty in bringing these matters to the notice of the public authority. That sort of thing is bound to happen. The point is: should the Assistance Board have an absolute obligation to check the legality of rent demands and, if it comes to that, every other kind of expenditure indulged in out of the funds paid to the recipients of assistance? I cannot see that that is their primary duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "inister because of non-provision of certain information which everybody knows in his heart cannot be provided in great detail. The suggestion is put across by hon. Members opposite that the National Assistance Board is fiddling the accounts in order to see that the Minister does not disclose information which hon. Members would like to have. That is the inference which we on this side must assume.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-17", "file": "debates1958-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "d2b150ab87d54891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1957–58", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No misfortune.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Not right honourable? No doubt the hon. and learned Gentleman will be if the party opposite wins the next General Election, because he works so hard for the Opposition. While listening to the hon. and learned Gentleman I was filled with apprehension, because it seemed to me that if, through any misfortune, the Opposition were to win the next General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-17a.909.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1004.6", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH SOMALILAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Within the Commonwealth?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "replies were eighteen months ago, and there have been happenings since. In view of the very close identity between the Somali peoples and the sense of frustration that there will be in 1960 if some of them have independence and others do not, will the right hon. Gentleman take steps to have discussions with those people for the purpose of achieving an agreed advance towards unity and independence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1004.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "at in a multi-racial society there must be some safeguard for minorities against discriminatory legislation, is it not a fact that Her Majesty's Government have undermined the confidence in the sort of safeguard which the Council of State was intended to be, by their treatment of the African Affairs Board in the Federation? Has not the time come to consider setting up an entirely independent body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ities against discriminatory legislation, is it not a fact that Her Majesty's Government have undermined the confidence in the sort of safeguard which the Council of State was intended to be, by their treatment of the African Affairs Board in the Federation? Has not the time come to consider setting up an entirely independent body—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—probably for the Commonwealth as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "t not a fact that Her Majesty's Government have undermined the confidence in the sort of safeguard which the Council of State was intended to be, by their treatment of the African Affairs Board in the Federation? Has not the time come to consider setting up an entirely independent body—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—probably for the Commonwealth as a whole—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—which would discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I had almost finished, Mr. Speaker. Has not the time come to consider setting up an independent body for the Commonwealth as a whole which could decide these matters of discriminatory legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1008.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TANGANYIKA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "There is no evidence that these arrangements are deterring children from being sent to school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1023.6", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "ch states in one part that any people going on strike in future will have their paid leave entitlement reduced, that in the case of established men their position will be examined and that in the case of un-established men their records will be examined with a view to their suitability for establishment, reflects a very high-handed attitude indeed? In view of the delicacy of the position of Malta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1023.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINGAPORE AND HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irving", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irving", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in Singapore, while great progress is being made in organising industry, not so much progress is being made in agriculture and fisheries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINGAPORE AND HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Just a little domestic affair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irving", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in Singapore, while great progress is being made in organising industry, not so much progress is being made in agriculture and fisheries—[ Interruption .] After that very minor local diversion, caused by the entrance of the Prime Minister, may I repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FAR EAST (DEFENCE POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "oll at Rochdale? May I further ask him if he agrees that, in view of the fact that our defence policy in the Far East is now centred on Singapore, the political foundations for that military setup ought to be on secure ground? Does he not realise that, within a year, perhaps at the next General Election, the People's Action Party will have swept the present Government of Singapore out of the road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS, NAVAL AIR ESTABLISHMENTS AND HOME COMMANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "grave importance to the livelihood of the many men concerned. We are rather suspicious that on many of these matters the Ministry of Defence is much more concerned with cuts in numbers than the efficiency of the Services. I have been looking at the Navy Estimates for last year and I found that practically no new naval construction was taking place in naval dockyards. It seems to me that at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1050.2", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman. I am sure, is aware of the facts. The new Governor was appointed early in December. He spent some time in the island, and then came back to report. Since that time, we have been engaged in the discussions with the two Governments concerned. As I have said, I would ask the tolerance of the House on this matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1050.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND ELECTORAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "ry occupant of the place knowing that he has come into a protected territory. What is the good of talking about this wonderful privilege of allowing protected persons to vote? It just makes nonsense. We are accused of perpetuating the communal principle. This is very odd. The leader writer of The Times, in a somewhat pontifical way, says that the Bill makes for integration rather than segregation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND ELECTORAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": " Central Africa to inquire into the possibilities of Federation and amalgamation. That Royal Commission recommended that no such steps should be taken. In any case, the question was terribly alive back in the thirties and the Royal Commission reported, I think in 1939, against it. So it has nothing to do with this. The seed of Federation was planted long before the Labour Government came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-18", "file": "debates1958-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb16ad0baed5b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND ELECTORAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": " the wide street, so he pulled in towards a pavement where an African in his Sunday best was enjoying himself on his precious new bicycle. The European drove straight at him until he wobbled almost under the jeep's wheels and the European then leaned out of the window and in my hearing said, \"Get out of the way, you black bastard.\" I am not pretending that that is representative of every European.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-18a.1137.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-19", "file": "debates1958-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b561ca849038350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that, in spite of the source from which the suggestion comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-19", "file": "debates1958-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b561ca849038350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — H.M. AMBASSADOR, BONN (UNITED KINGDOM VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"When.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This is the second time the right hon. Gentleman has evaded the Question on the Order Paper. The Question asks the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-19", "file": "debates1958-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b561ca849038350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n the last eighteen months, Her Majesty's Government should go back to that. It is, of course, out of the question for Israel to accept this proposal. What, then, is the purpose of raising the hopes of Arab nations that they will, nevertheless, get this sort of settlement? It can only do harm. There is, no doubt, room for mutually agreed adjustments between Israel and the neighbouring Arab States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-19", "file": "debates1958-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b561ca849038350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before reunification?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " and should have done long ago, is to put forward our own proposals for disengagement. I must briefly spell them out, because experience has led me to realise that if one does not spell them out one is open to grave misunderstanding. Here is what we should like to see done. First, there should be a gradual withdrawal of foreign forces from East and West Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-19a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1396.8", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COFFINITE DISCOVERY, CORNWALL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is coffinite?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Specimens of coffinite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1396.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1405.2", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "oduce it in sufficient numbers. If we are to accept the White Paper as a truthful description of the present balance of power, it rests with the Western Powers and not with the Soviet Union. In other words, if positions of strength are necessary to get international negotiations going, such a position exists at present, and has existed for the last two months. Why, then, has there been this delay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "id by others, \"Why is it that we should accept only the Russian proposals for the Summit Conference and not put proposals forward on our own?\" I understand that the Russians have not refused that. The Russians have agreed to look at our proposals, but is this a conference aimed at agreement or is it a conference aimed at disagreement? I am afraid that the accusation is against the Government here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nt? I am afraid that the accusation is against the Government here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Let us see. At least, I should like to modify that. It is on the American side that there is an apparent attempt at disagreement—because President Eisenhower put forward as his alternative agenda the liberation of Eastern European States. He knows very well that in present circumstances that is impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " in the Middle East. It is easy to say what we would like to happen. What is much more difficult is to see that it does happen. One matter which the right hon. Gentleman suggested was that we should guarantee the existing frontiers between Israel and her Arab neighbours. I think that a guarantee of the existing frontiers would be bitterly resented and resisted by all the Arab neighbours of Israel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "o I believe in the possibility of a so-called third force or new power bloc. … Nor do we favour unilateral disarmament.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th February, 1958; Vol. 582, c. 1233.] Therefore, I think that on these matters we have a bi-partisan position, and I am glad, because some doubts were caused by some of the remarks made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale at Brighton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hungary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "mber for Leeds, East, because it was really endorsed by the Leader of the Opposition and, therefore, binds hon. Members opposite, I suppose. I should have thought that this question of disengagement is sufficiently important to merit the kind of consideration which the hon. Gentleman did try to give it in his pamphlet. The hon. Member's idea is a neutral belt in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this an Oxford Union debate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "e nor anyone else expected that type of explosion until it in fact occurred. Secondly, because of the failure of the Western Powers to provide an alternative to massive retaliation, as I recommended that they should seek to do in my article three years ago, so long as the two sides confront one another directly with atomic weapons, a Hungarian-type explosion could produce an unnecessary world war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1433.5", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "of missiles until the summit talks had taken place with the Soviet Union. I do not think that that suggestion is a good one, because there is no difference in principle between these missile bases and the bomber airfields or the development of bombers themselves. To hold up work on one or the other would be a fundamental mistake. In any case, the missiles themselves will not be here for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " place of participation and with regard, as the Prime Minister put it, to disentangling the points of disagreement, and revealing, perhaps, the most prominent areas of a possible agreement.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th February, 1958; Vol. 582, c. 1227.] As to the fixing of the date, there are two arguments. If the date is fixed, it might be said that there is no incentive to do any preparation at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " do any preparation at all—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]. There are two arguments. The first argument is that if the date is fixed, and where the meeting is to take place, there need not be this genuine endeavour beforehand to disentangle the issues. The second argument is that if you do not fix the date you can delay preparations indefinitely. I think that it is six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "f-a-dozen of the other. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members opposite have to realise that the sanction for genuine preparation may be not to fix the date—the only way in which you are going to get genuine preparation, without which I believe the meeting would not be the most useful, is not to fix the date. Our view is that this is a matter which must be discussed with our allies before a decision is taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-20", "file": "debates1958-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "f784d364f3aa5594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "preceding_text": " can draw. This fully justifies Mr. George Kennan's forecast in his third lecture when he pointed out that if nothing is done about Europe there will be eventually on the part of the people of Eastern Europe … general despair, apathy, demoralisation and the deepest sort of disillusionment with the West. I must allow the Prime Minister, who, I believe, is to wind up, to start his speech now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-20a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1541.7", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain F. V. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain F. V. Corfield", "preceding_text": " is actually acquired. We have endeavoured to ensure that the right will be kept alive in the original owner. In some cases a practice has come to our notice whereby a purchaser, after insulting an owner whose land has been compulsorily acquired under a clearance order by offering him £1 or a few shillings for the site, injury is added by charging him for the privilege of demolishing the building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1541.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "that land to less lucrative use even though good planning so requires. In many cases good planning will be thwarted because the best use of land will be that which will make the land less valuable in financial terms than the use for which the authority originally acquired it. The Measure is put forward to deal with admitted hardships and difficulties, but it has not put forward the correct remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "m scratch and have a comprehensive review of the whole position. It may well be that we shall have to have another Uthwatt Report. Having missed the opportunity of letting the 1947 Act mature and develop, we have lost ten years of valuable time which might have led to a settling down of the position. That is the pitiable fact. I think that Lord Silkin's name will always be honoured in the future.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1599.5", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. Is it not absolutely scandalous for a right hon. Gentleman on the Front Bench opposite, whose standards we on this side of the House do not regard as very high, to make such an offensive remark about my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1599.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1599.6", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I will withdraw if I am given an opportunity to do so. I spoke in the heat of the moment. I certainly think that the hon. Gentleman should have allowed my hon. Friend to speak. He did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1599.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1605.12", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "f something which he has not created. The present rate of compensation, by and large, is fair and just. Where land is acquired by a local authority through a compulsory purchase order, it is based upon the existing use value plus the development value as at 1st January, 1948, plus one-seventh. In many cases, that value is very little different from what is commonly called the current market value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1605.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ve these difficulties in mind. Column after column of his speech deals with them. They were brought before him not from Government benches but from this side of the House. His answer was what Government supporters would use the Socialist solution of the compulsory purchase order in order to keep down the market price of land to within a reasonable distance of the compulsory purchase price of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "another thing, Section 19 deals with cases where there is no reasonably beneficial use, and to apply the machinery of that Section to cases where there is reasonably beneficial use, but the trouble is that there is no market, simply would not achieve the purpose. However, we are working to try to find a better way than that. I now want to come to the heart of the Bill, which is in Clauses 1 and 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1630.3", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "This tries to deal with cases where land is scheduled in a development plan for a use for which there is no market value—say, where there are plans for a new road, an oven space, or a sewage works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "y representations from hon. Members—namely, the sometimes negligible compensation payable for the small site which by itself has little or no market value. I certainly have sympathy in this matter, but, again, the Clause as it is drafted will not do. In the Bill the assumption is to be made, as I understand it, that the small site is to be deemed to form part of a larger site. But how much larger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1637.4", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPENSATION (ACQUISITION AND PLANNING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that supporters of the Government have defeated the Government, may we ask what are the Government's intentions in the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "AFRICAN TERRITORIES (MR. BASIL DAVIDSON)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. John Profumo)", "preceding_text": "t perfectly clear the other day that, in accordance with well-established principles, he is not prepared to make public the reasons why any individual has been or, indeed, is declared a prohibited immigrant into a Colonial Territory. I do, however, detect behind the speeches which have been made something considerably deeper than a protest over one or other individual case which has come to light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-21", "file": "debates1958-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c651f2921969633b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "AFRICAN TERRITORIES (MR. BASIL DAVIDSON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but I think I ought to explain the principles in this case. I am not pleased, because I have gone into the background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-21a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " the future is as bleak as the figures alone would suggest. New projects are coming forward and they will provide substantial, even if temporary, work on construction; and then, after that, of course, permanent labour forces will be recruited. I am referring especially to the factories, financed by the Development Commission, being built in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, at Penygroes—is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It is hoped that work will start on these soon. There is another problem here that is pushing itself a little into the forefront, and that concerns some of the remoter parts of England. I often think that more notice would be taken of England if it had a Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "people liable to lose their jobs will not exceed 6,000 and the discharges will be spread over some three years. Here I am saying a word about both my responsibilities and the responsibilities of the President of the Board of Trade: it is by announcing such a decision well in advance and spreading the action over a period of time that the Government machine is given the best opportunity to operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Sir David Eccles)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which means un-employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Sir David Eccles)", "preceding_text": "national unemployment problem today. By no stretch of the gloomiest or most political imagination could the present figure of 1·9 per cent. be called either dangerous to the progress of the economy or dangerous to our social wellbeing. It is the Government's deliberate policy to reduce the excess demand for goods and services at home in order to lessen the strain on the balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.147.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman started off by saying that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.153.6", "colnum": "153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "situation has changed completely, yet here we are with Development Areas covering 18 per cent. of the insured population, and in many of those areas there is now a high level of industry. Indeed, the North-East coast, for instance, is probably the busiest area in the kingdom. I ask hon. Members what they would say if we proposed to de-schedule some of these areas and to add others to the schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.153.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I am putting a suggestion to the House, which needs careful thought, that unless we de-schedule some areas there is no point in adding any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-24", "file": "debates1958-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "b4360af377b8fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "NEW £5 NOTE (DESIGN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Economy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "gned the banknote. If that is so, I should be glad if my hon. and learned Friend would confirm it. At a time that we are urging industry generally to improve design, we turn out this £5 note and, for that matter, the postal order. How can the Government justify urging business men to improve their standards of design and to improve their exports when the Treasury turn out things like this £5 note?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-24a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "COMPULSORY PURCHASE (TO PREVENT EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julius Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julius Silverman", "preceding_text": "se is in a state of dilapidation and the tenant can incur an obligation to the extent of hundreds of pounds or be turned out. As many of us know, this is not an exceptional case. When the tenant made a reasonable request to the landlord that before he consented to the lease the landlord should put the house in a proper condition of repair, the landlord's response was simply to give notice to quit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "COMPULSORY PURCHASE (TO PREVENT EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": " personal attack. I hope that it will not be considered unreasonable to ask what leads the Opposition, for the fourth time, to bring a Motion of this kind before the House. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite know that even if it were passed this afternoon, by accident, they would not be able to see either the Bill on the Statute Book or to achieve in this Parliament the repeal of the Rent Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "COMPULSORY PURCHASE (TO PREVENT EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "RS: \"Why?\"] I advise hon. Gentlemen opposite to delve into the depths of their own Parliamentary experience for the answer. I ask them to consider most carefully what will be the results of this campaign. May I say, first, that we on this side of the House would find it easier to take it more seriously if they had put up some constructive alternative. I say on behalf of those who sit on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "COMPULSORY PURCHASE (TO PREVENT EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The small landlord is being driven by the conduct of the party opposite to sell his property with vacant possession as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "COMPULSORY PURCHASE (TO PREVENT EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So does the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it might also be reasonable to think what is the reaction of public opinion upon the House of Commons. The public now see the House of Commons seeking to frustrate its own procedures. A major Act of Parliament has been passed. We all know that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite disagree with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "COMPULSORY PURCHASE (TO PREVENT EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another one next week\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "May I conclude by saying to the hon. Members opposite that if they continue this campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.216.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": " and he said that they added up to slightly more than £5,000 million. He went on to say that that was £45 million more than the Government were spending in the current year and that the increase was entirely due to higher prices. He added: The real volume of Government expenditure has once again fallen.…The State has, in fact, been taking a steadily diminishing share of the national income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-25", "file": "debates1958-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "d8e520492a31e974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. G. R. H. Nugent)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. G. R. H. Nugent)", "preceding_text": "e shall want about half the number of motive power units for our railway system, and therefore inevitably it will be necessary to close down a certain number of the railway shops. As far as it is humanly possible, however, the Commission is doing this in a reasonable way. I hope that will reassure my hon. Friend. Turning to the difficult problem of the level crossing on the Newcastle-Emlyn branch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-25a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend tell me whether he thinks it advisable that this sort of Question should be put down on the Order Paper at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At least.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ier? He will recollect that it has always been a criticism of the DH110 and the N113 and now the NA39 that they were much too heavy for the carrier. Secondly, when did the right hon. Gentleman discover that the Russian submarines had become a menace? I would remind him that the present Prime Minister, as long ago as the memorable debate in February, 1951, said that the Russians had 500 submarines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.389.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Mr. S. Silverman rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "y, Russia's overwhelming superiority in conventional forces and the reliance of the West on the nuclear deterrent. I have had a number of talks with Mr. Khrushchev on various occasions, here and in Moscow, and the thing that most struck me about his colourful personality was his complete outspokenness. I am sure that he is the last person in the world to resent, or to be put off by plain speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Herald.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "paragraph 12 and the strategic nuclear deterrent, the right hon. Gentleman quoted the News Chronicle , which happened to suit his purpose—I suppose because of the candidate his party is putting up at Torrington. He did not quote the Manchester Guardian , which did not suit his purpose. Then I asked him whether he would quote this morning's Times , to which he replied that he did not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ny times before. We may have to share the guilt of 1939—and I will say a word about that in a minute—but it was the fact that the Government of that day talked big in the 'thirties. They talked about rearmament, they talked about their intentions, when in fact they were not doing anything sensible to carry out those things. That got us into a situation where the Germans thought we would not fight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman that the louder we shout that in any circumstances we will reply with a weapon of mass suicide—which means obliterating London—the more unlikely is it that we shall be believed about anything short of a real, complete disaster. The would-be aggressor would say to himself, \"I do not believe they would do that. I do not believe they could do it.\" Look at the Daily Herald this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " It is equally foolish to suggest that these weapons will only be used if an aggressor uses them first. It is the knowledge that in the last resort\"— we should mark those words \"in the last last resort\"— these terrible weapons will be used that makes them an effective deterrent, but they constitute only an ultimate sanction to prevent war. They could not be used in the event of minor disturbances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ", but we do not bind ourselves so to arrange our defence forces that this has to be used early on in the chain reaction. My complaint about the Government, paragraph 12 of the White Paper and its whole presentation is that they suggest that unless there is a border incident—and the Prime Minister took upon himself the responsibility of defining the sort of occasion upon which it would not be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "is border case, that rules out from the list all possibilities between, and there are lots of possibilities between. We in the Labour Party are not running away from our acceptance of the deterrent in an all-out global war or in a major affair, but the Government have produced a White Paper which everybody has taken to indicate the ultimate deterrent will be used in anything but a border incident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I apologise for interrupting him, but this is a matter on which clarity is obviously essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " much less risk for the inhabitants of an area near missile stations than for those living near H-bomber stations, when it is remembered that the missiles cannot be tested and cannot be practised, whereas H-bombers can be tested and practised. However, as I said to the Minister last year about another matter, because a thing is logical, it does not follow that it is either necessary or inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the installation of these weapons on the grounds that politically it is a mistake of the first order to instal them before the summit talks, that defencewise there is no case for having them, that they are extremely questionable objects themselves, and that we should lose nothing and gain a good deal by waiting a little longer. Perhaps I might conclude what has been, again, much too long a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If it were a majority I would believe it wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "chances of peace being maintained. Now, having congratulated right hon. Gentlemen opposite, may I ask: Would it not have been absolute nonsense not to have arrived at this conclusion? If we take into account the colossal forces which the Russians are capable of deploying against us, and the White Paper speaks of 200 divisions mobilised, we must ask what we or N.A.T.O. have got to set against that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ian (Sir W. Anstruther-Gray) also did. The right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill), who used to sit where the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight (Sir P. Macdonald) is now sitting, was constantly attacking his own Government, and being supported by the Labour and Liberal Oppositions because of the Conservative Government's lack of effort and purpose in making this country safe from Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Almost indefinitely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "preceding_text": "ay the right road. Today, we move a step further in the intensification of fear. Paragraph 5 of the White Paper states: There is thus no military reason why a world conflagration should not be prevented for another generation or more through the balancing fears of mutual annihilation. The White Paper goes on to say: In fact, there is no reason why all this should not go on … indefinitely.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "er about the Liberal Party's Amendment. It is typically woolly and obnoxious, as one would expect. Frankly, I cannot understand the Labour Party's Amendment because we have had speeches by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) at the Labour Party Conference, very important speeches in which he carried with him not only his party conference but the redoubtable Frank Cousins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.445.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "nces I am not a bit surprised that those who support the extreme Left should be advocating the dismemberment of N.A.T.O. and the destruction of regional military pacts. I can imagine nothing more in Russian interest. What disturbs me very greatly is to see how widely this view is held by the Opposition, though I admit that the Leader of the Opposition has in the House paid lip-service to N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.475.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the hon. Member says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.478.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-26", "file": "debates1958-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bb0fb10fe6843fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.497.12", "colnum": "497", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am trying to deal with it in a broad way. It is an accepted fact that, granted the conception of a small number of troops made mobile, there will be sufficient troop-carrying aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-26a.497.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "This is a pretty sharp point, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.529.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.530.7", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear. Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "It is, of course, as the hon. Gentleman rightly says, part of the Government's policy to reduce the standard of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.530.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "As this Council has called for more unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.537.5", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "When this matter is sub judice —when, in fact, this House has asked a Committee to look into the future of the Board of the Bank of England—is it not injudicious, to say the least, for the Governor to make this sort of partisan speech in public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that in answering a similar Question to No. 45 a week or two ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.539.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "POLICE (USE OF DOGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Agnew", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend replies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.547.5", "colnum": "547", "heading": "TUMBLE COLLIERY, CARMARTHENSHIRE (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, this particularly tragic type of danger in coalmining is peculiar to this area of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.547.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "THE RIGHT HON. MEMBER FOR WOODFORD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "and hon. Friends a message to my right hon. Friend at an earlier stage and I was happy to get from him a very robust reply. I think it will give him a very great deal of pleasure to know that the whole House joins in good wishes to him—the greatest of our House of Commons men, and one who loves the House. I am sure that it will give him great satisfaction to know the affection we all have for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.552.5", "colnum": "552", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that we have such a project in mind at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "hese good relations continue if the public, who have been upset by the implications of paragraph 12 of he White Paper, believe that there is a chance of instant devastation because of the missile bases being set up to deploy American missiles, which, in the words of the Manchester Guardian, can add little to the deterrent, and may make it more of a target.\"? I regret to have to pose this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " military man in a job like that. It is all right to appoint a second-lieutenant or a brigadier, but to put somebody in that office who is the equivalent of the chiefs-of-staff is no good at all. He must be able to talk to them. Sometimes one has to speak to them in language they understand—language that I could not use here, for obvious reasons. The Minister of Defence is regarded as a tough guy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "the military sphere, because, in the long run, it makes its impact upon our civilian life. That is my first suggestion. I should like to elaborate upon it, but I must stop. My second suggestion is a more difficult one. I have spoken about the official policy of the Labour Party. If anybody doubts it, for the purposes of accuracy, I have the composite resolution of the Labour Party Conference here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.579.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Oh, Manny!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I will have to see about it. Obviously, if there was not a decision about the construction of missile bases, if the Labour Party Conference did not say, \"You must not construct missile bases\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.583.6", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry, but that will not wash at all. I have the appropriate reference here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.583.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e on weapons which can conceivably be used. What is a nuclear weapon? It is, by definition, an unusable weapon—something that we cannot use, because nobody commits national suicide. It is very nice to make speeches in the House saying that it is better to commit national suicide than to live under Communism, but the evidence is that when the politicians come to the point the surrender takes place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that the conventional forces are already there. My hon. Friend did not know that. The Western garrison in Berlin is quite considerable. Suppose that a Russian attack on that garrison takes place. Of course, if it is resisted with conventional forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.654.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "an could not spell it out as I have done, speaking on the Floor of the House from the opposition side, but he could have said simply that any Russian aggression must be met by the appropriate degree of resistance, sufficient to resist it when it takes place. But he should not have gone further than that in the White Paper today, and then he could have explained in his speech what he meant by that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "I never said that it was a United States bomber, and I never said that it had crashed. I said I was told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-02-27", "file": "debates1958-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "40b607a4a4788867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.688.5", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — B.B.C. TELEVISION (MEDICAL PROGRAMMES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": " upon the viewers. This matter was brought to the attention of the B.B.C. Its defence was to say that its viewers have a healthy interest in disease which it feels it is legitimate on its part to satisfy. My contention is that to have an interest in disease is not healthy unless one is a public health worker. A lay person has only a morbid interest in disease, which these T.V. films are fostering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-02-27a.688.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.836.8", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RENT ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "While agreeing with the right hon. Gentleman that the Prime Minister is not ashamed to admit anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.836.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "THE RIGHT HON. MEMBER FOR WOODFORD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "d that a message of congratulations should be sent to you on your recovery, conveying the warm good wishes of us all The House will wish to know that it has received, in reply, the following message from my right hon. Friend: I am deeply honoured that the House of Commons should send me a message as you have done. I hope soon to be once more in my seat. Meanwhile, please accept my grateful thanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I really cannot help tenants who are so foolish as all that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister say how he reconciles his figures with the fact that the Labour Party has distributed 300,000 forms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell for certain whether the figures are right or wrong, although I think that, broadly speaking, they are well based—and, broadly, they bear out precisely what I have been saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "st see whether we can overcome them, as the Amendment says, in a fair and reasonable manner. The second point I want to make is that so far as I can judge it is very largely a problem not of the young and able-bodied, but the elderly. That is why I sent a special circular about the old people to local authorities in November. It is much easier for the younger people to make a move if they have to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "re people than were in it before, so the Act all the time will be increasing, and not diminishing, available accommodation. It is not easy for old people to move: I know it is not. Those are the people we all want to see helped, although I really cannot find it in my heart to encourage old people to stay on in houses which are so big that they have become a burden if something better can be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "us and there will be trouble in the country before October unless something is done about landlords who are not prepared to discuss alternative terms, but who want to get vacant possession in order to sell the property. If Governments put on the Statute Book Acts which put upon the community heavy burdens which sections of the community cannot stand, then they are inciting people to break the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They might switch off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": "b of hope whatsoever to those suffering in their thousands outside. The Minister said that the Labour Party was callous and unconcerned about housing. \"Callous and unconcerned\"—what words to come from the right hon. Gentleman. As I listened to his speech, I wished that we had reached the stage of having our proceedings televised so that people outside could see and hear the kind of speech he made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.884.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " about a certain Mr. Pilgrim. Hon. Members will remember the fate of Mr. Pilgrim, because the local council was taking his house. How many Mr. Pilgrims have there to be under the Rent Act before the Secretary of State and the Minister will take action? In fact, I wonder how many Mr. Pilgrims there have been already. I wonder how many of those gassing tragedies have not, in fact, been Mr. Pilgrims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-03", "file": "debates1958-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b035484bf7ce01e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At what interest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "ing and Local Government has asked me to make perfectly clear the position about loans for house purchase by local authorities in England and Wales. Far from there being any Government restriction on the policy of local authorities in this respect, my right hon. Friend sent a circular to local authorities in November reminding them afresh of their powers to lend money to would-be house purchasers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-03a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "That is a very good Answer, but can my right hon. Friend say what further contribution he hopes to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.960.4", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "This matter was fully debated yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.960.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "Having had this Question before him, surely the Minister has found out that time and time again over the years complaints have been made about smoke and damp nuisances and that, in spite of attempts to get improvements, those improvements have not been made? Why should these people be asked to pay higher rents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.972.3", "colnum": "972", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "It is with some hesitation that I cross swords with the Minister's legal advisers upon this exceedingly complicated question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.972.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.978.8", "colnum": "978", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Robert Allan)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Robert Allan)", "preceding_text": "ion. We have no reason to expect the same setbacks with receipts that we experienced this year. We put these receipts at £71 million and so our net Estimates come to £339 million. The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, West remarked last week that the plan for the Navy appeared to have been changed since last year. In fact, it has only been more closely defined. No one can really complain about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.978.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1050.4", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": " rather our ships were used for better purposes than that. I did not intend to join in the general debate, but to introduce a personal case with which I have been dealing. The Parliamentary Secretary said, in opening the debate, that service in the Navy was something to be proud of and to enjoy. I appreciate that, because, strange as it may sound, I was very anxious to join the Navy when I was 17.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "arters now would only impede the speed and efficiency of the run-down and would mean that we should not get as big savings as are possible and necessary. In fact, only a small proportion of our civilian employees are civil servants, as that term is normally used. The great bulk of them are technical and professional men—skilled workmen engaged in productive business, making torpedoes, maintaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "MEETING, TRAFALGAR SQUARE (GOOD FRIDAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "n. Yet here he allows a meeting by an organisation which has a very Left-wing influence, I would think, and at which there will be present thousands of Communists. I am not afraid of the meeting, because their case is so bad that it will not do people any harm to hear what they have to say, but I am against holding meetings in Trafalgar Square on Good Friday, and so are many people in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-04", "file": "debates1958-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6e160c75761f9b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "MEETING, TRAFALGAR SQUARE (GOOD FRIDAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works (Mr. Harmar Nicholls)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works (Mr. Harmar Nicholls)", "preceding_text": "cond has always been the advice of the police on the maintenance of public order. That relates to the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Wall). Those are the only criteria, and my right hon. Friend thinks that they should remain the real basis of all decisions. It certainly never was intended that permission should depend on either religious or political considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-04a.1132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1140.2", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "When the Government are wielding the economy axe so viciously in respect of many essential and desirable social services, how is it that this costly toy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has asked a number of supplementary questions. I do not resent that, but merely hope that I shall remember them. In the first place, I think that the Navy and the country largely would resent the implication that this is a costly toy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that I was not grudging in my recognition of the concession, but is not it advisable that Welsh should be treated in this country with even greater tolerance than, for example, French is treated in non-French parts of Canada?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (SCOTLAND) AND VACATED HOUSES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "continue rent control on such dwelling-houses in Scotland; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. I feel, Sir, like the widow who was getting married for the fourth time and who said that this represented the triumph of hope over experience. I noticed in my newspaper this morning the latest statement on the iniquitous Rent Act. It came from the Tory lady who represents Kelvingrove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " on the Health Service due to the reduction of illness and disease. That would be the ideal position, but it follows that the attainment of that position would result in a declining percentage of the gross national product devoted to the Service. If that percentage were taken as a ready reckoner, the result would be taken as showing an unsatisfactory position for expenditure on the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "idence was given on behalf of some of the drug houses. Yet, despite the questioning by the Guillebaud Committee, the profits were not revealed. Indeed, the investigation into the cost of the pharmaceutical products was the most unsatisfactory part of the Report. Now I come to another point, and this deals with what I would call the postcript to the Minister's speech when he spoke for over an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "tuency. I have seen hospitals all over the country, and have seen the damage done by the bombing, and the amount of damage which has not been repaired. There was no acceleration of the hospital building programme in the first six years of the Health Service, and the Guillebaud Report recommended that at least we should get back to an increase of 200 per cent. to bring us up to the prewar position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "If we had not had the take-over by the State of the hospitals, let us try to think of what would have been done. As a memorial to the miracles of surgery and of nursing that were performed during the war, and as a tribute to those who had sacrificed their lives, I am quite certain that this country, both local authorities and private hospitals, would have set out upon a great rebuilding programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1218.3", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Taking notes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "hirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton), I want to make a few observations about the circumstances in which the Bill has been introduced. From the benign appearance and urbane manner of the Minister this afternoon, one would never assume that the Bill is the result of a Cabinet row. During the debate, I have been wondering what the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is doing here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Epsom salts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "ent was treated with penicillin for a sore throat, the doctor may not be able to cure his pneumonia. The hon. Member anticipated what I was about to say. My suggestion is that when every young doctor qualifies he might well be presented with an illuminated address containing the famous words used by the late Lord Horder, that sodium bicarbonate is the most valuable drug in the pharmacopœia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " the latest wages—the latest wages are higher than these—but these are good enough for my purpose. The ordinary station porter who is, I suppose, the lowest paid man on the railway, receives £9 6s. 5d. a week. A ticket collector, whom one does not imagine to be the highest grade of employee on British Railways, receives £11 1s. 1d. a week if he is at a barrier and £11 16s. 2d. if he is on a train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1288.11", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Oh.'", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "A beautiful picture of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale coyly, cosily cajoling his colleagues up the garden path. I must add, in fairness to him, that he went on to say The prescription charge I knew would never be made, because it was impracticable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1288.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-05", "file": "debates1958-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "b222d031e7e22ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1288.11", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " year 1951–52, ignoring the income from the charges which were imposed, which came to £10 million, the figure was, in fact, less by £1 million than the £400 million ceiling. All I can say is that if that had been known ahead the right hon. Gentleman might not have resigned, and Heaven knows what might have happened. I suppose that that resignation was the beginning of the Bevanite movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-05a.1288.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1317.7", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Have we not established a constitutional tradition that committees like this shall represent both sides in the controversial matters affecting the community and both views about such things as the degree of laissez faire and the use of subsidies and as these eminent gentlemen frankly admit their one-sided standpoint in this basic field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1317.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sing it.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed a Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper on the subject of subsidising opera? As this is a very urgent matter, as far as public money and employment are concerned, can he find time for a debate on this subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1345.2", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite different.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I think that the Home Secretary realises that hon. Members on both sides of the House are very sensitive to this question of the hospitality which is afforded to aliens escaping from foreign dictatorship countries. That has been evidenced, for instance, in recent weeks by the decision of the Home Secretary in regard to the Hungarian stowaways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1345.4", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "et away with the excuse—which is quite unworthy of him—that he cannot review his decision because it would cause confusion in the mind of this man. I ask him to reconsider the matter. Is he really saying that he will send this man back to the Government of Spain, knowing perfectly well what kind of fate awaits him when he gets there? Does he want to get that sort of reputation as a Home Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1348.6", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us get the facts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not know the facts about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1348.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not know the facts about this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us get the facts.\"] The House should listen to me. I have just heard about this man being deported tomorrow. Is that so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "According to my information, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1365.3", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "preceding_text": "ly fact that my lieutenant in these affairs, Wilfred Fienburgh, is dead, and will no longer be taking part in our debates. I am grateful to the Minister of Defence for the words that he used last week, and I know that the Committee, and the House, echo them. On the other hand, I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish) whom we welcome to this Front Bench for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Does it also occur to my hon. Friend that the cap might fit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "I deliberately did answer that point, saying that the treatment was exactly the same. As the right hon. Gentleman has now misrepresented me in two respects, namely, saying that I disclaimed responsibility and that the treatment would not have been the same. I want to say quite clearly that I accepted responsibility and that I did say that the treatment was the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think I will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "itude of the hon. Member for Eton and Slough in this matter is coloured by that wider consideration. My point is that this case has to be considered from a narrower standpoint. Although all of us in the House may sympathise very sincerely with the basic emotion which the hon. Member for Eton and Slough has put across, nevertheless we must reject that from our minds in considering individual cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1448.2", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "That was a special case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "I have no knowledge of this case, but I am saying that mere dislike of a régime, accompanied by desertion, does not to my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1460.3", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker) in saying that if a man endeavours to escape from national service that, in itself, makes him a political refugee, if it is from a dictatorship country. To look at the régime behind the incident, to see whether there is a dictatorship behind it, surely cannot be the sole test. We must see what is to happen to the man if he goes back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-06", "file": "debates1958-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0c98e10f21107238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "JOAQUIM PEREZ-SELLES (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Wait and see. During the recitation of the facts by the hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Brockway) I put to him the question: What happened to this man after he went back on the Rouen occasion, and after he went back on the New York occasion? On the first occasion he was imprisoned for two years, and, on the second, for two years and six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-06a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-07", "file": "debates1958-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f7555a4a2ddb0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-07a.1579.3", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE ACT, 1839 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": "tial work; and possibly the family home was bombed. The childhood of these young people of today —some of their formative years—was spent in very difficult conditions indeed. During those years they lacked the guidance, the sympathy and the discipline of their parents. I myself am old-fashioned in some ways. Perhaps that is why I sit on these benches and not on the benches opposite. I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-07a.1579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-07", "file": "debates1958-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f7555a4a2ddb0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-07a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METROPOLITAN POLICE ACT, 1839 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or go down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "ing but taking the numbers of the cars of harmless people who, for business and other reasons, have to park their vehicles. If this is really a very heinous crime, let us increase the penalty. I know that I shall be penalised in a few days, and, perhaps, it would be a bad thing, just at this moment, to suggest that the penalty should be increased; but the Bill will not go through before I come up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-07a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "here. That is understandable. The Government, however, have allowed the idea to grow in many of these areas that anything concerning a missile base is highly dangerous. There was even confusion, which they recognised, about what was to be done in South Uist. Confusion is one of the reasons for the real alarm—that is the only word to describe it—among the people in the countryside of Lincoln-shire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "ay that every recruit has \"scrambled egg\" in his knapsack? I know that the Secretary of State is worried about women's recruiting and that the Grigg Committee is sitting. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned uniforms. If he wants to get women recruits, surely there is much greater scope for a change here. Why dress up women to look like men? Surely that discourages women from going into the Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Of course they have not. They have got the bolt action rifle with which I was armed in the First World War, and we talk about being a thermonuclear power and about impressing the Americans and adopting nuclear atomic weapons while the troops in Berlin have not an automatic rifle and no one says a word. I do not want to go on too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " seems to me that there is an unfortunate difference between the Departments, and I should have thought that the object of the Government should be to ensure that a rather higher proportion of the Army who move abroad should move by air. I had understood that one of the lessons we had learned from the campaign at Suez was that we needed a strategic reserve and that we needed great mobility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you expect us to know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Committee will expect me to answer for my right hon. Friends. Neither do I think that in the ordinary conduct of public business the Foreign Secretary would be the Minister normally expected to answer more or less \"off the cuff\" on technical questions like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "d not exaggerate because only £10 million has been spent on the bases. It is not we who are exaggerating. It is the Prime Minister who went on TV and said that it was not the case that the missile would be used if a major conventional attack were made and that before the missile could be used, he said, there must be 200 Russian divisions marching across Europe and ordinary bombs falling on London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ional product of this country. That is the kind of financial climate in which we find ourselves. Obviously, from the Government's repeated statements in the defence debate in the Navy debate, in the Army debate and today, that is a pace of spending which we cannot match. Therefore, either we shall become hopelessly outpaced or helplessly dependent upon the United States of America. In either case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.137.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-10", "file": "debates1958-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1b2b5a80eb621a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": "But cannot we ask the Minister to say something about the over-riding question that is troubling the Committee tonight—namely, the nuclear bomber patrols which are quite unnecessary, and on which the whole of this side of the Committee is completely united?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-10a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-11", "file": "debates1958-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d76badd908988e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-11a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Clause 1.—(HIGHER RATES OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "e Committee until nearly the end, but was in no way restrained from making a very long contribution, raising points which most of us thought had already been disposed of. On this occasion he has certainly been here all the time, and he has spoken at great length. However, I must say that the merit and persuasiveness of his argument was in inverse ratio to the length of time taken in expressing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-11a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-11", "file": "debates1958-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2d76badd908988e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-11a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Schedule.—(PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTI TUTED IN FIRST SCHEDULE TO NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRI BUTIONS ACT, 1957.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And her rent has gone up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "I will deal with the 10s. widow, if I may, in due time. I would like to look at the position of the working widow. Let us ask ourselves whether she is so much less able to pay than spinsters and other working women that she needs special treatment. Consider the position of this widow. She usually has a home. She usually has her family allowances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-11a.369.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.407.9", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister realise that other nations in the Commonwealth have introduced the heads of famous figures on stamps, without in any way interfering with the Sovereign's head? Why stick to antediluvian methods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.407.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible for stamps issued in the Commonwealth. Secondly, I must reiterate that the principle on which stamps are issued in this country is that the Monarch's head should be the principal feature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.407.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.422.8", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "I think that the Minister said that tolls would be charged for the use of this tunnel. This is a departure from the present policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.422.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (REPAIRS AND RENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Vickers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "f the landlord gives an undertaking he can do the work in less than that time. I suggest that it is only fair to the landlord and the tenant to allow to both of them the period stated in the Act. First, there is the pressure of the demand on the building trade, and, secondly, the builders cannot do roof repairs, for instance, of which the hon. Lady spoke, in the kind of weather that we are having.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (REPAIRS AND RENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Vickers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: In Devonport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": " building. There are some quite frivolous requests from some people. Perhaps they make them for fun. Perhaps they make them because, as the hon. Lady said, they do not understand. There have been requests for a new doorknocker and the mending of an electric clock, and a complaint that the grass needed mowing. I think that some people are filling up some of these 300,000 forms a little frivolously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (REPAIRS AND RENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Vickers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Vickers", "preceding_text": "o make it an offence for a landlord to charge more than the permitted rent. It is already an offence for a landlord to make a false statement in a rent book about entitlement to rent. Therefore, I suggest that as no further legislation on that matter was passed even by the Labour Government, it is unnecessary now to have it. Of the 15 million dwellings, the Rent Act applies to fewer than 5 million", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " We are worried that this is so short an extension, and we suspect that it is intended that this should be looked at again in the Budget, and the hon. and learned Gentleman has gone so far as to say that his right hon. Friend the Chancellor will actually deal with this in his Budget. The hon. and learned Gentleman used the word review\", which I find an alarming word, which fills me with suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker) was so acid this afternoon. Of course, the Socialist Party is absolutely terrified of seeing finance being provided direct from the working classes into private industry, because that will make the realisation of a nationalisation policy very much more difficult. The working man will say, Why should I vote for Mr. Gaitskell and his friends\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.470.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.522.6", "colnum": "522", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.522.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "What I intended to do, out of courtesy to the House and because I think I am the senior Minister present on the Treasury Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "t on the Treasury Bench—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—was to reply to the points made by the Leader of the Opposition. I need not waste any time on his third choice; we reject it, of course. The position about the consideration of the Bill now before the House is that, after a fairly close-run race, the status quo is preserved. In that case, we suggest to the House that we continue with the consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ould be made by the Prime Minister tomorrow about the Government's intentions and the future of the Bill. It is not in accordance with the traditions of the House of Commons that a defeat of the Government should be treated in this light manner. In any case, the Minister of Labour is not a particular authority on the Bill. We have in charge a Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "at of the Government should be treated in this light manner. In any case, the Minister of Labour is not a particular authority on the Bill. We have in charge a Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. [ Interruption .] It is no good Government supporters becoming troublesome because they have been defeated. We have a Joint Under-Secretary who is not particularly bright or competent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How did the right hon. Member get up there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " of State for the Home Department. [ Interruption .] It is no good Government supporters becoming troublesome because they have been defeated. We have a Joint Under-Secretary who is not particularly bright or competent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I am not withdrawing. It is true. I used to watch him when he was up there on the back benches; how he ever got down on to the Front Bench I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.524.6", "colnum": "524", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "s who was not present in the House when these proceedings started, I feel as well qualified as any hon. Member opposite to discuss the matter. In the last Division the two sides of the House tied with 153 votes each. That being so. it is perfectly plain that a very large number of Opposition hon. Members were also absent. I think there was a fall of no less than 32 votes between the two Divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.524.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.525.7", "colnum": "525", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams (Exeter)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams (Exeter)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I am a little obscure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.525.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.525.7", "colnum": "525", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams (Exeter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams (Exeter)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I am a little obscure—[ Laughter .] If I may say so, I thought that remark would get a good laugh from the other side of the House, but I am not quite clear in my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.525.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": " should be invited to give further discussion to the Bill before we know the Government's intentions. There are several precedents for this. The Government have various alternatives open to them. They are in the undignified position of not only having been humiliated in the Division Lobbies but of having no responsible spokesman on the Treasury Bench who can tell us what is the Cabinet's decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " four replies, as he is entitled to on the Report stage of a Bill. On each occasion, the House became more hostile to him. Then we proceeded to a Division. The declaration of the result of the Division was held up for at least three minutes while the Government Whips fetched out of the Lobby the cards on which the votes are recorded, and everybody who was here saw the two Whips and the two Clerks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "n spite of any promise that may have been given, there will be a Supplementary Estimate for the services to the House to pay for the telephone calls made since the Government defeat was announced. Hon. Members are coming in from the east and from the west—mainly from the west. They are coming in from the north and the south, and anywhere else where it is suspected they may be—in the heavens above—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": ". Further, let the Government take warning from what has happened. It is well known that they find some reluctance on the part of their honourable supporters in going into the Lobby in their support on certain occasions. I cannot imagine why they should have had any doubt on this occasion for, after all, this is a Bill which, so far as I know, is one of the apples of the eye of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Start all over again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "pporters in going into the Lobby in their support on certain occasions. I cannot imagine why they should have had any doubt on this occasion for, after all, this is a Bill which, so far as I know, is one of the apples of the eye of the Home Secretary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] The Under-Secretary did his best. I am glad to see that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House is here now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "speech was far more powerful than anything he could have done by vote. It was the one thing which convinced me that I was right. After the hon. and learned Gentleman the Under-Secretary of State had made three or four efforts to reply to the case which was put up, the House proceeded to a Division. When the Tellers for the \"Ayes\" came to the Table, that is to say, those in favour of the new Clause", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "earned Friend about the way in which a response should be made to the evident feeling of the House as it has been expressed on both sides. I make that appeal to the right hon. Gentleman with confidence. There was a time when I was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of which he was the head. No more happy time have I ever had in Parliament than when I was working with the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "preceding_text": "I can well understand the Opposition's elation at finding themselves in a majority in a Division—a snap Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.536.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "I withdraw the \"right hon.\" and stick to \"hon.\" If the hon. Gentleman would care to look at the record, he will see that I did not manage to speak on the Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman). In fact, I spoke on the Bill which became law. Before the hon. Gentleman makes such witty remarks I think that he should check his facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "se is, \"That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be adjourned.\" That is why I considered that I ought to mention the merits of the Clause in the name of the hon. Member for Rossendale. I will not go into it in detail because the arguments about the Clause were put absolutely clearly by the Joint Under-Secretary. I entirely support every word my hon. and learned Friend said this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "de of the Government on this Clause. If hon. Members do not wish to hear that, or if they think it is out of order, I will restrict my remarks to the absolute minimum and add only one sentence on the subject of this Clause. If a magistrates' court were to have the power to discharge the committal of a maintenance order defaulter, it must have the power to discharge the committal of a civil debtor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "New Clause.—(DISCHARGE OF COMMITTAL ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES' COURTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And yours\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "preceding_text": "n Mr. Speaker, but the point which I want to put is that the House is clearly now in a most unsatisfactory position. In the course of two hours, there have been three Divisions. In the first, the Opposition defeated the Government by three votes. In the next, the votes were exactly equal and now, although two hours have elapsed and there has been great activity on the part of the Government Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Clause 6.—(POWERS OF COURTS TO MAKE ORDERS ATTACHING THE EARNINGS OF PERSONS WHOSE PAYMENTS UNDER MAINTENANCE ORDERS ARE IN ARREAR.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Privilege?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "nglish law. I should have thought it was perfectly proper in this case that the onus to satisfy the court should be put upon the defendant. I appreciate what has been said about using \"appears to\" in place of the words taken from the Magistrates' Courts Act, but I think that this privilege—and it is a privilege which is being given to defendants—should be matched by putting a burden on defendants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-12", "file": "debates1958-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "2662c618b73d7107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Clause 6.—(POWERS OF COURTS TO MAKE ORDERS ATTACHING THE EARNINGS OF PERSONS WHOSE PAYMENTS UNDER MAINTENANCE ORDERS ARE IN ARREAR.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "court should be put upon the defendant. I appreciate what has been said about using \"appears to\" in place of the words taken from the Magistrates' Courts Act, but I think that this privilege—and it is a privilege which is being given to defendants—should be matched by putting a burden on defendants. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Privilege?\"] It is a privilege which people will get in not being sent to prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-12a.573.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-13", "file": "debates1958-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6060d85972565fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.588.5", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "As the Government are in principle opposed to subsidising private industry, will the Minister see that there is a limit to these subsidies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.588.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-13", "file": "debates1958-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6060d85972565fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "While we are glad to see the Prime Minister in the House today, may I ask him whether he will acknowledge that this is the third time in less than a fortnight that he has evaded a direct reply—he and the Lord Privy Seal—to Questions on this point? Surely when a large number of his supporters have made representations to him on a matter of great public importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-13", "file": "debates1958-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6060d85972565fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " gave me in a speech. I do not wish to offend against the conventions, but I shall finish in five minutes although, after all, a few seconds either way does not matter very much when we are spending £500 million. I wish to ask the Minister about the old-fashioned recruiting campaigns which used to be conducted in the time of my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-13", "file": "debates1958-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6060d85972565fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ake a grant to the universities so that young men could be taught not only flying and navigation, but all the necessary technical grounding while they are at university so that in that way the very valuable work done at universities could be preserved. I say all this quite seriously. I did not intend to say it seriously when I got to my feet, but it suddenly occurred to me that it was a good idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-13a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-14", "file": "debates1958-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6c415afd8815cdb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-14a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "SUNDAY OBSERVANCE LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Sunday which we respect in these islands is followed in many other parts of the world. We are no different in this respect from many other proud peoples. Many of the States in the U.S.A. have the same sort of Sunday as we have, with its restrictions and inhibitions. The same is true of Scandinavia and parts of Germany. I happen to believe that Sunday is one of our remaining bulwarks for democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-14a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-14", "file": "debates1958-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6c415afd8815cdb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-14a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "SUNDAY OBSERVANCE LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was not quite right, for there was a play which followed the variety show on I.T.V. It was a play which I watched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-14a.795.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-14", "file": "debates1958-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6c415afd8815cdb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-14a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "SUNDAY OBSERVANCE LAWS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " read Monday papers which were prepared on Sunday. He was also prepared to run the tap, use the gas, and allow his housekeeper to cook him meals on Sundays. It is difficult for anybody to be wholly consistent on matters of this kind. Only a few months ago I spent a very pleasant Sunday in the train with the hon. Member for Wimbledon, travelling to Birmingham to take part in a television programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-14a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-17", "file": "debates1958-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f069b018298502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-17a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARAB REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I have not got that information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-17a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-17", "file": "debates1958-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f069b018298502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-17a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "PARTY MEETINGS (PALACE OF WESTMINSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " the Whips furious about this, but that Ministers are now getting to the stage where they cannot give any confidential information to the 1922 Committee. I know that you have previously ruled on the question of party meetings upstairs not being subject to Privilege, but this is a different question, because statements are made in this newspaper that Committee rooms have been wired for microphones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-17a.924.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "On a point of explanation, Mr. Speaker——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES (INFORMATION OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this broadcast, while being largely factual, was nevertheless tendentious and seemed to me to be liable to help the Government politically?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "iplinary action. They would then act as prosecutors before the tribunals. These committees are not organised to act as detectives and they can hardly be expected to relish the role of prosecutor of their neighbour. They have done an extremely difficult job with great tact and patience, but this would have been trying them far too much. I know that there is opposition to the repeal of these powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "that it was our intention to repeal the 1947 Act. I am sorry not to help the hon. and learned Gentleman's argument. I think that it is not unreasonable for me to suggest that we will argue less about this part of the Bill than about others. In view of what has been said, I want to make it perfectly clear that while the N.F.U. did not accept the view that legislation was needed to put things right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1115.6", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "t that view for one moment. As the House knows, I have arranged for a thorough review of the future of the county committees, and I am hoping very shortly to have full and detailed discussions with all the chairmen of the county committees. But I can say without hesitation that in my opinion the committees have as valuable and as constructive a job to do in the future as they have had in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1115.6", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "e farmer today has great opportunities, but the State does not guarantee him a living. He has got to earn it in a highly competitive world. Our policy is to give farmers a chance to take advantage of their opportunities The price guarantees established by Part I of the 1947 Act, buttressed and placed on a firm long-term basis by the 1957 Act, give the farmer real assurances for long-term planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Williams", "preceding_text": "oblivious to and cynical of agriculture's contribution to our national economy when it said on 5th March: Once the submarine menace was overcome in the last war maximum agricultural production ceased to be a matter of life and death. It was implying, of course, that agriculture did its job during and since the war, but that we should now send it back to the doghouse of the 'twenties and 'thirties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1152.5", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "d. My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North, who is the distinguished president of that union, has certainly made his point, and I hope that in future hon. Members who are responsible for agricultural administration will not be so cavalier in their treatment of a very responsible section of the agricultural workers. Today is a black day for British agriculture, because this is a wrecking Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "It was a strange explanation to say that the industry was the \"lowest form of life\". The hon. Member was criticising the place of agriculture under the present Government and that was not unusual. Right to this day, agriculture has been let down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Groundnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have never said we should grow bananas or grapes on Ben Nevis. I believe our production must be economic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ernment by any previous action or by reason of this Bill undermines the guarantees or the guarantee system. This is a bogey which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are raising to bolster themselves in agricultural areas where they have never had much support and are unlikely to get it. I do not believe the average Labour Member of Parliament knows the difference between a plough and a heifer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have made my point. It will be recorded in HANSARD. I could add, perhaps, that brewers, property owners and investment companies are taking more than their share under the Rent Act. That fact could have been mentioned by the hon. Member, in which case it would have been fair for him to mention miners. But that is finished with. I shall not argue about it any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "eses— the holding might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord. What about a willing tenant? What is a willing landlord? I want the Minister to tell the House, in crystal-clear language, what the phrase \"a willing landlord\" means. What we are doing is setting land free for the \"boys\" of the City to have a hunting, shooting and fishing place to go to at weekends.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " power, agriculture is sacrificed to the City of London. How beautifully the Minister put it this afternoon. He said that he was going to give agriculture a shot in the arm; that we want to encourage young and enthusiastic people to come into British agriculture. Who is it that the right hon. Gentleman is encouraging? It is the tired business men who have made a lot of money on the Stock Exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " standard of living. If, after the foreign and defence policies of this Government, there is anyone living in twenty-five years time, I am willing to bet that far from the standard of life in this country being doubled, because of the unplanned policies of this Government our standard of life will be lower than it is now. I wish to refer now to a subject about which I admit I am not well-informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "es of this Government, there is anyone living in twenty-five years time, I am willing to bet that far from the standard of life in this country being doubled, because of the unplanned policies of this Government our standard of life will be lower than it is now. I wish to refer now to a subject about which I admit I am not well-informed—[ Laughter. ] Well, that is an honest confession, is it not?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "preceding_text": "ulture will carry a full report of what my right hon. Friend said today, because he made an excellent speech. I have not always spoken in those terms about my right hon. Friend, but I can do so today. It would be as well if copies of my right hon. Friend's speech were made available for distribution by my own party, not necessarily at the Torrington by-election, but for future agricultural policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "preceding_text": "ered Surveyors' Institute, the Land Agents' Association and the Land Settlement Association. Those are bodies which I should say represent every interest on the production side of this industry. I should like to ask the Minister this question. How many of these organisations have written to him or approached him or his predecessors asking for repeal of Part II of the Act of 1947? How many of them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "preceding_text": "nts are to be fixed in accordance with a new set of words. If they mean anything at all, rents will go up. The Government think that this will make it easier for landlords who come before an arbitrator. If it does not mean that, this Clause of the Bill is meaningless. The Daily Express has pronounced upon this. I need not quote what it said, but it has written pretty good sense in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-18", "file": "debates1958-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "fb71d88762d43ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1220.5", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "manners. The hon. Member for Derbyshire, South-East asked if I stood for it, and of course I do. But a code of good manners is not imposed from Whitehall. Good manners are not imposed on anyone. They are innate, something which people feel to be right. That is just what farmers and landowners are feeling today. Indeed, in this Bill we preserve the sections of the 1947 Act which lay down the rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-18a.1220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not realise that if better postal facilities are not afforded two results will follow: my constituents there will not be able to send me suggestions for supplementary questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1251.6", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No stamps on them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "If it were true that there were serious repercussions on trade and industry in Aberdeen, we should have heard much more about it. I assure the hon. and learned Member that there is no system of selection of letters coming to the Post Office from Aberdeen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1251.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (UNFIT HOUSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ore, condemns these tenants to live in houses which the landlord is given no inducement to keep in repair. Thirdly, the proposals which give the total number of unfit houses are based merely on a preliminary survey. If the houses are subsequently put in an area for compulsory purchase or made subject to a clearance order, the landlord has a right of appeal against the condemnation of his property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Adorn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Don Valley, was praised for having taken agriculture out of politics, or taken the politics out of agriculture. They could not say too much in praise of my right hon. Friend and the then agricultural policy. In recent years, on the other hand, agriculture has been thrust back into the cockpit of party politics by the doctrinaire politicians who now adorn the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Clause 6 takes away the security of the tenant farmer and his family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "es away the security of the tenant farmer and his family. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Why says \"Nonsense\"? What is the purpose of Clause 6? I hope that the Secretary of State will tell us what its purpose is and what its effect will be. I say that its effect will be to take from the tenant farmer and his family the security which he has enjoyed until now. There is no tribunal which could protect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has got it right at last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "griculture, who was so ready to come to the defence of the Secretary of State, is now informing himself of the effect of Clause 6. He was advised by the noble Lord, the Joint Under-Secretary, that Clause 6 dealt with deaths. In fact, it deals with tenancies—although many tenants will die in consequence of Clause 6. The purpose of Clause 6 is to change the law of succession to holdings in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-one year leases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "aths. In fact, it deals with tenancies—although many tenants will die in consequence of Clause 6. The purpose of Clause 6 is to change the law of succession to holdings in Scotland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He has got it right at last.\"] I had it right before I started. It may be that hon. Members opposite are not aware that the principal reason for the high standard of husbandry in Scotland over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) has ranged very widely in his speech. I do not blame him for doing that. He was bound to do so, but it is difficult to decide how most effectively to deal with the different points which he raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The brief.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "ech. I do not blame him for doing that. He was bound to do so, but it is difficult to decide how most effectively to deal with the different points which he raised. [ Laughter .] I can deal with them effectively all right. It is a question of how most conveniently to deal with them, because the hon. Member jumped about a good deal. I think that the best thing to do is to stick more or less to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1295.10", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. With great respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that is not the same question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1295.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1296.5", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "lt with Part II of the Bill at considerable length, and the only conclusion that I could reach from listening to him was that his view was that the excellent production and the excellent records achieved by farmers in the United Kingdom as a whole, and by farmers in Scotland in particular, in recent years were the result of fear of the use of the disciplinary powers which are available in Part II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend made it absolutely clear yesterday that they are not imperatively needed today. I will finish what I have to say on Part II of the Act. I want to pay a very sincere tribute to the way in which the agricultural executive committees in Scotland and their sub-committees have carried out—as I know they have in England and Wales—what must have been to them at times a very invidious task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ch, 1958, was at fault. I wish to draw the attention of the House and of farmers in all parts of the country, including Scotland, to the simple fact that the position has completely changed during recent years, even since the day when the right hon. Member for Don Valley left the Ministry of Agriculture in 1951. What has happened? A very great deal, as the result of seven years of good Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Duncan", "preceding_text": " He can leave the farm to anyone he likes, inside or outside the family, and through the generations ad infinitum . I believe that to be an injustice that we should put right, and I congratulate the Government on having gone so far to put it right. Much has been made about the abolition of Part II of the Agriculture Act, 1947. Honestly, I do not think that this will raise any interest in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the hon. Member be on the Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Duncan", "preceding_text": "s are inheritors of their own titles. In this case, the tenant will be inheriting the landlord's property. That is the difference. I do not see how one can compromise on that, if one is to break fixity of tenure, unless one does what the Government are doing, which I believe is the fairest compromise, taking everything into account. We shall, no doubt, have to argue many points in Committee later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "so that the trees may be grown which are so urgently needed by the nation. I do not think much of such landlords. There may not be many of them. I think that most landlords are very good indeed. But there are some such men who own areas as great as that of a highland parish—thousands of acres. I feel that the Government would be failing in their duty, and the Opposition, too, if they did not help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Deal with the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I know that there are certain words in the Labour Party's rules which make it somewhat embarrassing for hon. Members to say anything more definite about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Deal with the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "t there are certain words in the Labour Party's rules which make it somewhat embarrassing for hon. Members to say anything more definite about it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Deal with the Bill.\"] I will deal with the Bill, but after the earlier exchanges I thought it only fair to bring these points out. Before I deal with the Bill, I want to take up another point made by the right hon. Member for Don Valley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is, of course, quoting actual, and not adjusted figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A year.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "n arrived at over the years, and I have merely tried to put the matter in its proper perspective. The right hon. Gentleman went on to something else. Referring to what my right hon. Friend had said, that, in fact, the 1957 Act gave security, he said: There never was a more bogus claim. He went on to say that In the nine preceding years the average under-recoupment per annum was about 15 million \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I have already said that, but I have tried to put them in their proper perspective. However, I would say that I interrupted the right hon. Gentleman only once, but he tries to take up every single one of my points. To come to the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "A certain Mr. John Mackie, who was a Labour candidate at the last Election, said on the subject of security of tenure—I will not develop the nationalisation point— Farmers have got too secure a tenure, and the landlords' powers have been too drastically curtailed, The machinery that was to fill this blank has been found wanting. We have a substantial support for our point of view from this source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-19", "file": "debates1958-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "215273a555c20bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ocialists get in again? \"The opposition to the repeal of Part II is, therefore, due to fear of the right hon. Member for Don Valley and his colleagues. The right hon. Gentleman can clear it away, though, if he is willing to give as unequivocal a promise of the continuation of the guarantees as my right hon. Friend has given. Would he like to give that promise now and so set farmers' minds at rest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-19a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "While not pressing the Minister to make a statement now, may I ask him whether he is aware that many of us are tremendously conscious of the service which the people of Malta have given to this country? Further, is he aware that our desire is that in these negotiations there shall be generosity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1409.6", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think that constitutionally this is rather a difficult problem? If the Prime Minister of a Colony comes here, possibly on Government funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1409.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1413.9", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I assure the right hon. and learned Gentleman that I am anxious to be able to do so, and that I will do so as soon as it is possible to make a worth-while statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1413.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "is the Minister aware that this visit is being construed as an exercise in feet dragging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1426.2", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the replies he has given indicate that he is treating this matter too lightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not want to mislead the House. That is generally accepted as the figure. I think that I am being very conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not realise that when he was in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1441.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I have the figures, but I do not want to bore the House. When this country is facing financial difficulties——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": " to old schools started during the financial year 1951–52 must still be restricted to about three-fifths of the figure for the calendar year 1949. These are examples of economies by the very people who, in their Motion today, are condemning a Government who have a splendid record of progression, but who have had, for the moment, to call a halt to, or a slight deceleration of, the programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are more children.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "ar of the party opposite. During the time of the present Government, annual education expenditure from central and local funds has been at an average rate of £435 million a year, as against an average of £255 million when the party opposite was in office. Even if we make a generous allowance for the changed value of money, this substantial increase must be conceded by any reasonable-minded person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "bling planning to be done by the local authorities, who at the moment do not know where they are. The hon. and gallant Member for Horncastle (Commander Maitland) said in his speech today that education was far better out of the prejudice of high-powered party politics, and I believe that to be true. Nevertheless, over the last few years the party opposite has used education for political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "d Progress\" the party opposite was able to put the following in its election manifesto: In the next five years…we intend to complete the reorganisation of all-age classes in the rural areas and make good progress with reorganisation in the towns. We shall also tackle the problem of the slum schools…Grants will continue to be given for playing fields, community centres and youth clubs", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-20", "file": "debates1958-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "de513e15dcacf655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "oyment for teachers in the 1960's is dangerous and is absolutely beside the point. Now a very brief word on the question of the organisation of secondary education. This is, I know, a very well-worn theme. I feel that the time is not far distant, if it has not come already, when no one will be able to mention in this House the comprehensive school without a low moan being heard around the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-20a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "That point does not alter my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": " party will be able to take credit or incur blame. As the promoter of the Bill, I have received massive and overwhelming support, especially from the Churches. I have mentioned the five letters against the Bill. My letters of approval have passed the century mark. They have come from Churches, social workers, police court missionaries, individuals, trade unions, and from the licensed trade itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was Oscar Wilde.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Medlicott", "preceding_text": "awyers and Members of Parliament tend to look at legislation from two rather different points of view, but in one respect they are agreed. They agree that the law, if it is to be respected, must be consistent. This Bill seeks to remove a glaring inconsistency in our legislation relating to the sale of alcohol. The late Mr. Bernard Shaw used to say that he could resist everything except temptation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": ", and they will keep out of the clubs to which the hon. Member for Brierley Hill and I object. This is a family activity. Here I must declare an interest. I have four children, all of them under 14 years of age, and they accompany me when I sail. We do it as a family activity, and we all enjoy it. There are not many sports in which the whole family, whether they are five or fifty, can participate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I, for one, should very much dislike it to go out from this House that any of us are attacking clubs. All we are trying to do is to deal with this question of whether young children from the age of five onwards can get double whiskies in clubs or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I, for one, should very much dislike it to go out from this House that any of us are attacking clubs. All we are trying to do is to deal with this question of whether young children from the age of five onwards can get double whiskies in clubs or not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is what it is about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-21", "file": "debates1958-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "816db27006685873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1648.7", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (REGISTERED CLUBS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Double whiskies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "ich contains a bar at one end. By the provisions of this Clause children would be excluded from any room containing a bar. I am all for preventing the sale of liquor to youngsters, but I thought that my right hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Glenvil Hall) was below the usual high level of his speeches when he suggested that the was about whether we should sell whisky to young children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-21a.1648.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that there is a great deal of concern about this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ll enable the development of the National Health Service to continue. That would not have been the case had we refused to spend the necessary additional money on it, nor would it have been the case if we had adopted some of the alternatives to which I alluded earlier in my remarks. The view has been expressed that the increase in the contribution will cause hardship to those least able to bear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Before the present Government came into power the contribution stamp was only 5s. 1d.; today it is 9s. 11d. That is a 95 per cent. increase. If that is not inflationary, I do not know the meaning of the term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ns they have taken from time to time, the abolition of subsidies and increases in contributions which the industrial worker has to pay, have constantly led to the worker being compelled, through his trade union, to seek to maintain living standards by demands for increased wages. These are the fundamental causes of inflation. The root cause is the fiscal political policy of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " in cost is because we are doing our duty to the nurses and doctors by paying them proper salaries. When the Minister of Health is asked to make a percentage cut on the Health Service, he cannot touch the bulk of the expenditure, which is for salaries. This money has to be saved by tackling the cost of Services to the patient. What are the economies that the hon. Gentleman suggested? Cuts in food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor in England.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Gentleman can mislead other people, but he cannot mislead anyone who has had this experience. There is no support for this Bill in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": " in industry, as no doubt have many other hon. Members, and we all know that by means of research and work study it is possible to lighten the burden of work on people and thereby cut down the number of people required. In a department of six, for example, it is quite feasible to make such economies in manpower through work studies as to reduce the number in the department by two—from six to four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "rse, hon. Members opposite might not think that it is a good thing that I am here today, annoying them—if I am —because of the skill of those who both prescribed for and used the knife on a tuberculous patient, who was not very much more than a hulk, washed up with the tide. However, whatever hon. Gentlemen opposite may think of me and my conduct, they certainly cannot decry my physical condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.127.3", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ave said at the same time is that they are paid about double as much as cadets in the Air Force who risk their lives in aeroplanes. I do not think that the apprentice has anything whatever to grumble about. He is well looked after and can well afford to pay the extra 6d. for the facilities that he will get from the National Health Service. I want to take up a few minutes in considering which ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "of the increase, let me put before the House the amount of the increase in the context and pattern of the trend of consumer spending. There has been a great change in consumer spending in the years since the Labour Party went out of office. There is far more consumer spending, illustrating the higher standard of life which the people of this country have attained under the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "f they do, they do not pay very much. I think that that is not an unfair précis of the case as put by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite. Then, of course, the question immediately arises: why do not the lower-paid workers pay any tax, or why do they pay so little? The answer, of course, is that they have been exempted from tax by the actions of Conservative Chancellors of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "he does not come into tax liability until somewhere between £10 17s. 7d. and £13 7s. a week, according to the ages of his children. Finally, a married man with three children—an especially deserving class in the community—came into tax liability at £9 12s. 4d. under the Labour Budget, and, as the result of Conservative Budgets, does not come into liability now until between £13 7s. and £17 Is. 2d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.148.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "I was hoping that the right hon. and learned Gentleman would go on. We do not want to stop him. I was hoping that he would give us also figures for the Surtax payers, to round off the picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will not be there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "pitals. Today we have fourteen major hospitals in progress or approved. New wards, new out-patient departments, new casualty departments, new operating, theatres, have come and continue to come into being. In money terms, in 1949 £91 million only were spent. This year we are spending £20 million on hospital construction, next year £23 million, and in the year after that we shall spend £25 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-24", "file": "debates1958-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "458942dff1c25568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Korean war\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I gave him the chance. If they do not accept that principle then they should not be opposing this Bill. If they accept the principle of unlimited Exchequer liability then perhaps in the closing minutes of this long debate somebody will answer the question, which has not yet been answered by the Opposition, why it was necessary to impose the ceiling on Exchequer liability in 1950 and again in 1951?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-24a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that no doubt Mr. Mintoff will want to present his account of what has passed between him and the Colonial Secretary and that it would have been far better if an attempt had been made to get an agreed statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that there will be deep resentment on this side of the House about his reference to degrees of irresponsibility in our approach to this problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " which he has now made about the five years' arrangement is one that goes back on a promise of integration, and that it will be so received in Malta? Is it not true that integration, as we have understood it, means that we shall have three constituencies of Malta represented in this House? If three constituencies do not exist there cannot be integration. Therefore, is it not unwise, at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e relationship between ourselves and Malta will be poisoned because in these discussions there have been differences? We have suggested to the Government that we might find a media by which this dispute between Malta and ourselves on financial matters could be settled. We have now arrived at a position in which the Secretary of State has made this statement, which is bound to be resented in Malta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "entleman think it necessary to make his statement to the House of Commons about a five-year interregnum before returning the whole question to the House of Commons, where it belongs? The House of Commons decided—perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will keep his face under control—on the recommendation of the right hon. Gentleman and the Opposition in the House, to accept the principle of integration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ommons about a five-year interregnum before returning the whole question to the House of Commons, where it belongs? The House of Commons decided—perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will keep his face under control—on the recommendation of the right hon. Gentleman and the Opposition in the House, to accept the principle of integration—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—as put forward at the Round Table conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask your help, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Can you guide me, Mr. Speaker, whether it is proper to adduce an argument to try to make you change your mind in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "As usual, when the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) puts down an Amendment to a Bill in this House, every possible aspect of the Amendment and its implications has been given the most serious and careful consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is a very good idea. I could not, even after the most careful study of the merits of the proposal, recommend that the Committee should accept the Amendment. Those of us who have moved at all about the world know that one of the great things about Scots is that they have managed to get themselves into the most astonishing positions in the most astonishing places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They always agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) is so irrepressible that I sometimes feel that the only solution to the problem of his family is for him to be kicked upstairs at once so that he and his father can fight it out in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Renton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Renton)", "preceding_text": "th those senses. In so far as it was a probing Amendment, he was asking what were the Government's intentions respecting the number of peers to be created and when they would be, and so on. That question reveals a misunderstanding of the purpose of the Bill. The purpose of the Bill is to aid recruitment to the House of Lords, but not to make a fundamental readjustment in its numerical composition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "t I have heard of what was said by the hon. Member for Surbiton (Mr. Fisher). I did not hear the private conversation between the hon. Member and the Attorney-General at all. We shall have to have circulating microphones when these conversations take place. I do not feel that this is very fair. I think that these chaps have had a raw deal. They have to go to this place, which is not very exciting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "ne would still call him earl while he was there, and I cannot see that it would make much difference to him. Alternatively, there might be conferred on him an hereditary earldom. In that case he would certainly be enabled by virtue of the hereditary earldom to sit and vote in the House of Lords, but I presume he would not at the same time continue to hold a life peerage and the hereditary earldom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": " but I should like to comment first on a remark made by the hon. Lady. She seemed to think, illogically, that the Upper House would be much strengthened if women were included. Surely, she does not claim that the addition of a few women to the Upper House will make all that difference. The real fact, and the hon. Lady says it quite candidly, is that she wants to abolish the Upper House altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " we look among the ranks of her own leaders we find that they are in favour of sex equality and the principle enshrined in the Bill. I now come to her real companions-in-arms, to whom reference was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Lady Tweedsmuir), namely, Lord Airlie and Lord Glasgow. Lord Airlie said—and since he is not a Member of the Government I am entitled to quote him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.364.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Tweedsmuir), namely, Lord Airlie and Lord Glasgow. Lord Airlie said—and since he is not a Member of the Government I am entitled to quote him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]: I am not going to give an analogy at the moment but if you put a cat in the bag and it does not want to come out, it is not an easy matter to deal with. …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords. 3rd December. 1957: Vol. 206, c. 662.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.366.4", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am glad to be able to adjust my expression to suit the right hon. Member. As a matter of fact, I put it the wrong way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-25", "file": "debates1958-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2f8e469bc4593c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Clause 1.—(POWER TO CREATE LIFE PEERAGES CARRYING RIGHT TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "of my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison). It is remarkable that so many women Members should object to this provision which at first glance one might suppose they would welcome. But we who object are agreed that it is because we feel that the Government are not sincere in this matter. We believe that we are being used as a \"front organisation\" as it might be called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-25a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-26", "file": "debates1958-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "1816a72739db0ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-26a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (EXCHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman will agree with me that there are some local authorities not as enlightened as the Sheffield local authority. The hon. Gentleman, by his modest Measure, is seeking to introduce a very large principle; no less than that, for the first time other than by requisitioning, a landlord shall he required to accept a particular tenant and without any compensating benefit to the landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-26a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-26", "file": "debates1958-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "1816a72739db0ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-26a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (EXCHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": " benefit to the landlord—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If the hon. Gentleman denies this, he should follow the consequences of his own proposal. A tenant suggests to his landlord that an exchange should take place with another particular tenant. If the landlord refuses, his tenant can take him to the county court. If the landlord's refusal is held to be unreasonable, he has to accept the nominated tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-26a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-26", "file": "debates1958-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "1816a72739db0ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-26a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957 (AMENDMENT) (EXCHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "for exchanges where the landlord is either the same landlord or two private landlords. There is a vast range of tenancies where one or both landlords are local authorities and this proposed Bill makes no provision for the compulsory recourse to the county court in the case of tenants of a local authority who think that the local authority is unreasonably withholding consent to a change of tenancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-26a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-27", "file": "debates1958-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b8620d963cefadd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the anomaly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "an recognise that there is no anomaly at all? In the case of the Metropolitan Police, he is responsible for them and runs them and, therefore, is responsible to this House, although London pays the same amount towards the cost of the force as the provinces do for theirs; but, in the case of the provinces, he does not run them, though he has a considerable influence. Therefore, there is no anomaly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-27", "file": "debates1958-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b8620d963cefadd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t towards the cost of the force as the provinces do for theirs; but, in the case of the provinces, he does not run them, though he has a considerable influence. Therefore, there is no anomaly. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the anomaly.\"] Then may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the logic of this argument would not be that the entire police forces of this country should become a national affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-27", "file": "debates1958-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b8620d963cefadd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moody", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moody", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that this is the third time this Question has come before the House, that he has added nothing to nothing and that the result is still nothing? Does this mean that this is the policy of the Government and that they intend to do nothing, or will the right hon. Gentleman, having expressed his sympathy on many occasions, go a step further and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-27", "file": "debates1958-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b8620d963cefadd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.589.8", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill). Is my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister not aware that many millions of people are growing increasingly worried about the extraordinary propaganda battle that has developed over the Summit Conference, that they have little faith either in the ability of Mr. Dulles to answer the propaganda effectively, or of our own Foreign Office to deal with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.589.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-27", "file": "debates1958-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b8620d963cefadd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This is the answer that the Leader of the House has given now on two or three occasions when he has been asked about it at Question Time. Will he please take note of the growing impatience on both sides of the House at the failure of the Government to make their position clear on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-27a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-31", "file": "debates1958-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "bfbefc60bd239090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MIS- CELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And read the Tory speeches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " other matters in relation to the House of Commons. Is the Leader of the House proud of this? Does he want to know why the Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill occupied 10 Committee sittings? If he reads the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Committee stage, he will find once again that same confusion, that same conflicting attitude to Amendments and to the meaning of the statute on the part of the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-31", "file": "debates1958-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "bfbefc60bd239090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MIS- CELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Torrington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "art) made far more and much more coherent speeches as a back bencher than he ever made when on the Front Bench. We have just had another one. I suggest to the Secretary of State that he should think again and withdraw not only this Motion but also the Bill. On May Day—or Maclay Day, whatever he likes to call it—the right hon. Gentleman probably has an important engagement. He is probably going to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-31", "file": "debates1958-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "bfbefc60bd239090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MIS- CELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hannan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"National Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hannan", "preceding_text": " Motions in the past. The more the Government lose their authority in the country, the more they rely on measures like this to force through legislation. Speaking on the Guillotine Motion on the Iron and Steel Bill in 1948, the present Secretary of State said that he had two excuses for speaking in the debate. One was that he was the only representative of the Liberal Party present that afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-31", "file": "debates1958-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "bfbefc60bd239090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MIS- CELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very unlikely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Then I need not carry the point further. We must distinguish between the strength of arguments across the Floor of the House and the fact that because one feels something strongly and it is not accepted by the Government, it does not necessarily mean that the Government are cockeyed and wrong. The Government may very well be right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-03-31", "file": "debates1958-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "bfbefc60bd239090", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MIS- CELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "s heard the discussion, one worries over to see if there is any way of meeting the argument and accepting the Amendment. If one decides there is not, it is only proper not to mislead hon. Members by saying one will reconsider the matter. I will give briefly one example of what went on between 1945 and 1950, when I claim that we in opposition were extremely constructive and reasonable in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-03-31a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.997.7", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "That is a hypothetical question. Local authorities have power to acquire houses by agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.997.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I have been forced to table this Question owing to the absence of the Minister to receive the deputation. I am addressing the right hon. Gentleman, not his Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister saying, when he refers to what he said last July, that the statement made yesterday by the Russian Foreign Minister makes no difference to the present position? Will he not agree that if the Russians are genuinely sincere in this offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister saying, when he refers to what he said last July, that the statement made yesterday by the Russian Foreign Minister makes no difference to the present position? Will he not agree that if the Russians are genuinely sincere in this offer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]—which goes a long way forward with their proposals", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I will do what I can about that. This is not a British Government document, but a particular document sent to a number of Members of the House by the Prime Minister of Malta. Naturally, a copy was sent to me and was also given to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In that case, I must proceed on the assumption that what I have said is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ere such provision is urgently necessary\"— I ask the House to note the next few words— and for a limited period, in order to modify or adapt the law of Malta in those fields. It continues: There would be provision … for consultative machinery … That does not matter in this context. The responsible Secretary of State\"— that would be the Secretary of State for the Colonies, presumably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend wants to be absolutely fair to Mr. Mintoff. Is he not aware that, under the terms of the Malta Constitution, there has to be a General Election in Malta before many months in any case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Is not the basic difference between the Channel Islands and Malta the fact that in the Channel Islands self-government is a reality, because the defence of those islands is neither here nor there from our point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Sowerby.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I would agree with the last sentences of my hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ioned the only solution was integration. We accepted it. Some people have said that we have since become romatic about it. I would say that the history of the Commonwealth in the last twelve years has been such that we can take pride in it. We can take pride in its previous history, too, but I speak particularly of the last twelve years, because fundamental changes have taken place in that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "connections between the two countries, so long as the Resolution of 30th December stands on the books and so long as the Maltese Government are trying to attach a unilateral condition of independence to the integration plan. The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South, whose speech was one of the most interesting I have ever heard him make, and he has made an awful lot to which I have had to listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "FIDUCIARY NOTE ISSUE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "xtend to the hon. Gentleman a courtesy which he was not prepared to extend to my hon. Friend. He must learn that if he starts throwing insults about in the House he will get something back. He is not qualified to refer to my hon. Friends in the manner in which he did. Knowing both my hon. Friends very well, I can say that their knowledge in these matters is just as good as that of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-01", "file": "debates1958-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "b79298f3a9314903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "FIDUCIARY NOTE ISSUE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Swindle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "edge in these matters is just as good as that of the hon. Member. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] In my view, it would not have to be all that brilliant to be equal to the hon. Gentleman's knowledge. He may be well-known in the City, and as a financier, but that does not mean that he has all the experience. Other people can study this matter and learn about it without actually being involved in the swindle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-01a.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that last week a delegation from the Russian Minister of Civil Aviation visited Prestwick and expressed itself as satisfied with the arrangements at Prestwick? Is he also aware that this announcement will be welcomed in Ayrshire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1214.5", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Concentration camps.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "If the Minister went by air, did he not also see that there was considerable construction on the Eastern side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1218.3", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Disengagement is a geographical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Hamp-stead?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "object of preserving the houses and preventing future slums. Over the country at large the decontrol provisions of the Act are also operating without serious difficulty, and even in a few areas which are more difficult, such as London, very large numbers of tenants have already been able to enter into new agreements on reasonable terms or have succeeded for themselves in making other arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": " the Act has been accomplished, and the Government do not intend to repeal or amend it. Measures imperative in the national interest to combat inflation have, I know, made it harder for some decontrolled tenants wishing to buy a house for themselves. It is also beyond doubt that there would have been nowhere near so many notices to quit served but for the Labour Party's threat of municipalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "w the county court is powerless to hold up an order for possession for more than four weeks or so, even though the tenant may have nowhere to go. The Government propose an amendment of the law of landlord and tenant so that in appropriate cases of decontrolled tenants the court may grant a rather longer delay before the landlord can regain possession, if the tenant can satisfy it on three matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country as a most humane statement?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country as a most humane statement?—[ Laughter. ] I can wait. Is he aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country as a most humane statement?—[ Laughter. ] I can wait. Is he aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"]—as a great humane statement and, further, that the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country as a most humane statement?—[ Laughter. ] I can wait. Is he aware that his statement will be acclaimed throughout the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"]—as a great humane statement and, further, that the Labour Party—[ Interruption. ]—will be stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.6", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement that he has made today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.6", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement that he has made today—[HON.MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"]—is in accordance with the character that he has achieved in London in the last twenty or thirty years as a local government expert? Further, may I say this to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "RENT ACT, 1957", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "y court always had discretion to suspend an order for possession when a controlled house has become decontrolled, and was not there some doubt about it under the Act? Has not my right hon. Friend resolved that doubt in favour of the tenant? May I ask my right hon. Friend to take the opportunity to remind local authorities that, to a great extent, the solution of these hard cases is in their hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-02", "file": "debates1958-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d5e17c58204cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIFE PEERAGES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "t a bit tired at about eight o'clock in the evening and translate them to a place where, at 5.30, Members talk about \"this late hour\". I hope it will be clearly understood that that idea of the Daily Mail's is no way to reform a second Chamber. I sincerely hope that a maximum age will be fixed above which no one will be recommended for a life peerage. I suggest somewhere about 60 or, possibly, 55—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-02a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-03", "file": "debates1958-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba4ba7473bbdc3fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-03a.1383.3", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "Owing to the very unsatisfactory Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-03a.1383.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-03", "file": "debates1958-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba4ba7473bbdc3fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-03a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A little local difficulty?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s duty as the Member for his constituency, and perhaps he showed the proper fervour that such Members do. However, I am sure that this is of very minor importance. I am informed that this matter was one in which the Chancellor of the Duchy was acting in what he believed to be ordinary constituency work at a private meeting. Therefore, if there is any difficulty it is one of a very minor character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-03a.1385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-15", "file": "debates1958-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "1eae75793aa67eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Whilst we are glad to learn the Colonial Secretary acknowledges that the situation is deteriorating in Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.18.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-15", "file": "debates1958-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "1eae75793aa67eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Florence Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend suggest in what way it is thought that a Hungarian bath is better than a British bath?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-15", "file": "debates1958-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "1eae75793aa67eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "don and Professor Leo Szilard, have reported recently that radioactive fall-out has already reached danger point and any more tests would be certain to cause agonising deaths to many thousands by leukaemia and bone cancer? Further, will he remind the President that the Soviet Government have offered control posts in connection with an agreement abolishing tests? Finally, will he give an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-15", "file": "debates1958-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "1eae75793aa67eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "earted support of Her Majesty's Government. I will now outline the policies that I think we should follow. At home our first priority must continue to be to win the battle against inflation and our success or failure there will largely determine our fortunes in the months and years ahead. I think that the past six months or more have seen quite a significant change in the temper of public opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-15a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "As the British Government are always outsmarted by Dr. Adenauer's Government in these matters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "depleting our gold and dollar reserves for the purpose of helping Western Germany, which has 50 per cent. more gold and dollar reserves than we have? Will the Minister look at a very interesting article in the Evening Standard of two days ago by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton), which gave some very wise information and sound advice to the Government in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "our sincerity or determination to make sterling the first priority in all our calculations and actions. I trust that when the time comes, as soon it will, whatever disagreements there may be on methods, when the strength of sterling is at stake hon. Members opposite will give the same national support to sterling that we have given, even at the moments of acutest party controversy on other issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t support to the Government in the methods needed to save sterling. Last September, had we followed the practice of 1948 and 1949, right hon. Friends of mine would have been cashing in on the weakness of sterling. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, at a most difficult time for the country, came right out against devaluation in the speech he made at the American Chamber of Commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "lower, rate on undistributed. I am sorry that the present Chancellor has been reactionary not only in relation to the merits of the thing but in relation to the relatively enlightened conduct of his predecessors. I think I am right in saying that the right hon. Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) did not modify the tax at all. However, the two other distinguished conservative financiers did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two and a half.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "preceding_text": "e may disagree with his views—and we generally do—they are always supported by substantial arguments. I can never remember him trying to make a purely debating point. I cannot say quite the same for his right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson), who told us today that he thought that our economy under this Government had been stagnating for many years. I think he said for four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were accurate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": " followed the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Sir A. Spearman). It is the first occasion on which I have found that there is a large part of his speech with which I agree. I hope to make reference to some of the things that he said in my remarks. I could not, however, agree with his statistics, which seem to me to suffer from the accusation of being more politically inspired than accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "d say anything of that sort. This is a privileged place, and therefore the very distinguished members of the Royal Commission have no course of action against the right hon. Gentleman, but the Minority Report in point of fact does accept the desirability, indeed the logic, of a single rate of Profits Tax. The reservation which the Report makes is that it should be coupled with a capital gains tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-16", "file": "debates1958-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a242ff2792c969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": " and one which I should have thought no intelligent person could possibly support. This is a major change and a very good one indeed. I want to turn now to another good feature, though a relatively minor feature. of this Budget, and that is the further reduction of Stamp Duty on the purchase of small houses. This is in entire keeping with the Conservative philosophy of a property-owning democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-16a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.360.7", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Industry likes it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend, save on the single point about the unification of Profits Tax. On the question of Profits Tax, the reform that my right hon. Friend has introduced was recommended by the Royal Commission on Taxation and has the general support of industry as a whole. We are convinced that it will be of considerable benefit to industry because it will remove many distortions in company finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.360.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.360.7", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "t, as I understand it, is the official statement of the Opposition policy. This is very important. I think the country should know that that would be the policy of hon. Members opposite, to have an above the line surplus hundreds of millions of pounds greater than what my right hon. Friend is now budgeting for; because that must mean—it cannot mean anything else—a substantial increase in taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.360.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " been periods when we have had it. Between 1952 and 1955 there was a substantial improvement in our balance of payments position coincident with a substantial increase in industrial production, but that followed a period of restriction which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to introduce to deal with a balance of payments problem left to us by the Opposition when they went out of office in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sound?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, I think that the right hon. Gentleman is, for once, slightly off the beam. It is perfectly clear that our policy is that, where there are unused resources, that is, where there is substantial local unemployment, the Government will give assistance to sound projects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There we are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, I think that the right hon. Gentleman is, for once, slightly off the beam. It is perfectly clear that our policy is that, where there are unused resources, that is, where there is substantial local unemployment, the Government will give assistance to sound projects. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sound?\"] A sound project is one which will produce a useful economic return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Conservatives were in power before the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": " to me to be an increase in productive investment, because it is the lack of productive investment in the past from which we are suffering to a considerable extent in this country today. This applies to the 'thirties as well as to the 'forties, when we might have put both the rail and road systems of this country right, with the aid of 2 million unemployed. But, of course, investment means saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-17", "file": "debates1958-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "f20ea858bed47d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "o quotations. One is from the Cohen Committee Report, and again I say that for a Tory Member of Parliament to submit anything from the Cohen Committee Report is asking for trouble. I often try to work out exactly what it is that hon. Members opposite object to in that Report. I used to think it was what they said that they objected to, the policy, but I have come to the conclusion it is the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-17a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-18", "file": "debates1958-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "00ada69ae9015280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-18a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPTICIANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ally, but must take into account the fact that if a person knows that he cannot buy a pair of spectacles at short notice, a person who is suffering only from the defect of lengthening vision, he will not risk the danger of losing his spectacles and being unable to replace them straight away. He will, therefore, be compelled to buy a number of pairs of spectacles and plant them in different places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-18a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Politics are not a matter taken into account in this context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Politics are not a matter taken into account in this context. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Certainly not. Surely not even the hon. Gentleman could suggest that the politics of the party to which he belongs are underrepresented on this board. He well knows that both the Labour Party and the trade unions are strongly represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Certainly I could, if I had a copy of the Report here. I could easily point to the paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "courage those who undertake it. We must foster them; we must reward them. It is no use villifying them, smearing them, harrying them, threatening them and, finally, expropriating them. Do not let us make any mistake. To tax capital appreciation without making allowances for any inflationary element, amounts to capital confiscation. To depress market prices of shares by threatening nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " hon. and learned Gentleman's most gracious reference to the homely and practical speech we heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Kelvingrove (Mrs. McAlister). We had an excellent speech from my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson), followed by one not less excellent in character and in substance from my right hon. Friend the Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.645.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "discussions upon it. If one looks at that plan, one can see that it means that the Socialists believe that prices will go on rising indefinitely. It meant, \"As far as we are concerned, we intend to tolerate that and we intend to tolerate the spoliation which continual rising prices means. What we Socialists intend to do is to take a cut of the spoils for ourselves.\" That is what the plan comes to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-21", "file": "debates1958-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a833ea704c7bc281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ass.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "been declared redundant, and we prefer the risk of inflation if unemployment is the alternative. I say to the Chancellor that he is on the wrong mark with this Budget. He is still chasing this bogy of inflation where none exists. He is the Don Quixote of Chancellors. He is tilting his lance at targets which do not exist, and his lieutenant, the Financial Secretary, mounted on his old Treasury nag—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-21a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "I can understand that the White Paper on the level of rents revealed may be embarrassing to the hon. Gentle man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " been declining to a very serious extent. One of the main reasons for that decline in the Commission's traffic is the denationalisation of road haulage, for which the Government are responsible. The effects of denationalisation have been far greater than the actual sale of 16,000 vehicles. The atomisation of the industry which followed denationalisation has brought chaotic conditions to the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "s speech, deals with other aspects, I shall certainly look at them and give a reply. The hon. Member for Enfield, East made a strong attack on my right hon. Friend, myself and the Government generally. He charged us with interfering with and handicapping the affairs of the Commission and, therefore, with having a responsibility for its difficulties today. The facts really do not stand that charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "to the man, the garage proprietor will let him get on with it and support him in any difficulties. We know only too well that complaints are made against local garages, and no doubt they will be made in these cases in the future, but the general complaint by the public is that the garages try to persuade them to spend more money on their cars than they wish. That is a fault in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "nt we shall prevent by the procedure which the Minister proposes? I am not saying this by way of criticism, because I am certain that some sort of testing is necessary, but because the public is mystified about the matter. I suggest that when the 15s. has been paid by the owner of a ten-year-old vehicle which has been tested the insurance premium exacted from him should be reduced by at least 15s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Frank Markham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Frank Markham", "preceding_text": "y after the most acute argument with the Minister of Transport and the pressure brought by the Ministry on the British Transport Commission at the time that I was allowed to visit these great railway workshops in my own constituency. Even then it was laid down that I must not go round the works on a working day, but must go one Sunday morning, when nobody else was there. Those were the conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Deprive the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "Three main matters have been raised in the debate. I understand that the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) wants to deprive my Department of a small amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-22", "file": "debates1958-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8096d9053eb7f86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Member for that intervention, because I am glad to say that the Government take the view—as I hope the Opposition do—that to apply a subsidy to the railways would be utter and complete disaster, and that all discipline and hope would be lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-22a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.940.12", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMED FORCES (OVERSEAS STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Suez and Cyprus?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is not the Soviet Union constantly asking for the liquidation of foreign military bases, and is not it clear from that reply that where British Armed Forces are stationed in foreign countries it is invariably at the request of the independent Governments of those countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.940.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL EUROPE (ARMS LIMITATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I think I should be wiser to confine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.946.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMIT CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I was not objecting to the right hon. Gentleman's agreeing with the Soviet Union; I was only expressing my surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.948.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMIT CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bcvan", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and gallant Member he good enough to indicate to whom he is referring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.949.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.949.5", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMIT CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry that this matter has degenerated into a personal dispute. I think that the information which the House wants could be elicited without making injurious reflections upon other hon. Members. If the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford (Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport) meant anything injurious by his reference to the right hon. Gentleman, he ought to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMIT CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am not too thin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.951.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMIT CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We must get on. The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) took the remark as referring to himself. That is why, when the subject was still possibly identifiable, I intervened. But the hon. and gallant Member has made it quite clear that he was not referring to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-23", "file": "debates1958-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "48180da845545fa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The trouble we are in is that again we do not know what we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-23a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this seems to have been going on for a very long time? Is he further aware, with reference to the first two Questions, that the chief shop stewards of all machine tool factories in Coventry had a meeting and, after consideration, decided that the tools mentioned could be removed from the list?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "Would there not be a much bigger saving if the tax were abolished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1159.8", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the Lord Privy Seal give an assurance that if his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, after the reconsideration that he said he was to give to the question of dividend stripping, decides to alter his Budget proposal, he will make a statement to the House before the Finance Bill is introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1159.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "DEFENCE (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I put a further question to the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "the court of the landlord's application for an order for possession. Hon. Members will there see set out the matters on which the occupier must satisfy the court if the order for possession is to be suspended. The first condition, to be found in subsection (I, a ), is that the occupier must have made all reasonable efforts to reach agreement with the owner on a new tenancy for three years or more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "will have to satisfy the court, again on the appropriate conditions. During whatever period he may be allowed to stay on, the tenant will stay on the same terms as before the court hearing, except in the one matter of rent. If the court grants postponement, the rent will be the amount asked by the landlord, as it should be, unless the occupier says that it is beyond his means and the court agrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The L.C.C. elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": ", makes the life of the Bill three years. The Government do not think that the number of cases coming into court at any time will be excessive and before the end of the three years, as people, one after another, solve their problems, I believe that the number will dwindle and vanish. The Bill is a fair one and since its publication it has had a very general and encouraging welcome in all quarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "nd of the three years, as people, one after another, solve their problems, I believe that the number will dwindle and vanish. The Bill is a fair one and since its publication it has had a very general and encouraging welcome in all quarters—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The L.C.C. elections.\"]—a very general and encouraging welcome in all quarters, except, oddly enough, the Financial Times and the Daily Herald.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The moment that the Bill becomes law, the Government intend to do everything in their power to make its provisions known and to bring them home to all concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "completed and the tenant gets an order for three to nine months. At the end of it, if things are still the same, it is not the landlord, but the tenant, who returns to the court to show that the burden is still upon him and that his is still an exceptionally hard case. I know that the junior Bar is a little short of work nowadays and that one should never discourage the law; and I shall not do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "o can find nowhere to live, and who have been driven into harsh bargains, and talks about a free market and the principles of this, that and the other, blind to what he has done in human terms, and then says it was not his but our fault, then we can only say that that will not wash. It is nonsense, and silly nonsense. We shall not oppose the Bill. Even this snack is worth something to some people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I was, of course, speaking of the 800,000, and the majority of those tenants have undoubtedly entered into new agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "n problems are arising we are having the courage to deal with them. I regret bitterly that this type of problem is inevitably party political. I agree with the hon. Member opposite who said that in opposition one perhaps does these things, but this is one of those human problems where, if it is tackled safely and wisely and without making use of it for election purposes, we might get much quicker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Weitzman rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1277.6", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why quote him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": " doubted the lofty motives of the post-war Labour Government; it was only their performance which made me wonder. Perhaps I might be allowed to say that when in 1950 my party committed itself to cut adrift from certain post-war inhibitions in this matter we were rather ridiculed by certain right hon. and hon. Members opposite. For example, there was the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-24", "file": "debates1958-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "f15c9f76f8735d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1277.6", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": " better conditions and to bring about a more economical use of existing accommodation. Many people, some of whom support the rest of the Rent Act and some of whom do not, take the view that Section 11 (1) of the Rent Act was a mistake. That is a point of view which I understand, but it does not happen to be the view of Her Majesty's Government. Let us be perfectly frank with each other about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-24a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-04-28", "file": "debates1958-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bfba11f152c7aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who ordered them?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "at extent it is inferior compared with when it was bought? Secondly, in view of the adverse publicity that this matter has received, is it not quite clear that there must have been some re-emergence of the 1956 muddle in the Ministry of Supply—with 1¼ million pairs of boots surplus to requirements, tarpaulin covers rotting, and surplus machine tools now being sold at a loss to the taxpayer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-28", "file": "debates1958-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bfba11f152c7aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that there has been any failure. There have been certain interruptions in anticipated supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-28", "file": "debates1958-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bfba11f152c7aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman is not wholly cognisant with the history and facts of this position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-28", "file": "debates1958-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bfba11f152c7aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send for Lipton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Does that not leave the situation rather vague, which is all the more disquieting in view of the lack of public confidence in the ability of the Minister to cope with this problem at all?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-28a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-29", "file": "debates1958-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "03c4872f2474b261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-29a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "NUCLEAR DEVICE (EXPLOSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " do my best to answer. This test is one of a series of tests which is not yet completed. I am not prepared at present to make any further statement than that. With regard to the timing of the test, it has not escaped the House that the Soviet Government made the announcement of their proposal to suspend tests immediately after the completion of one of the largest series of tests in the history of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-29a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-29", "file": "debates1958-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "03c4872f2474b261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-29a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS (CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ied on a small group of goods from which the Chancellor is now removing the tax. I am referring, of course, to the miners' helmets and boots, and so on. As a result of his statement today, it is now clear that that tax is to be withdrawn, but people have paid tax on those goods in the shops, because prices have been raised as a result of our decision. What steps will the Chancellor take to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-29a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.367.5", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RBRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "We are, naturally, bound to recover public funds which have been paid out improperly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.367.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "May I join my right hon. Friend in asking the Minister to reconsider the request made to him to call the two parties together? I am not satisfied at all with the statement of the Minister to the effect that he would be taking sides. It is the duty of the Minister of Labour to be impartial in all these matters, and I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "e unionists concerned could help by sharing this amount of money, and I put it to the Minister that this is a hopeful indication of the good will of the trade unionists concerned, and that they are desperately anxious to avoid this conflict by going through all available machinery. I am sorry that this may appear to be a party political point, but may I put it to the Minister that one thing which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "It must be stated at this stage, because, after all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The eating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s equally. That is our present view, but my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade will return to this point in his winding-up speech, when he has heard what hon. Members have to say. I now come to the question of what will be done under the Bill. As it stands, the Bill is only a recipe. It may be the right one, but the proof of the particular pudding will be in the cooking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ribution of industry is designed for the same purpose, and that it is the word \"industry\" to which the Government do not wish to be bound in future. I have always thought that it was perhaps rather a pity, incidentally, that the phrase \"financial assistance\" ever got used in this Act. It rather suggests to ignorant people—the noble Lord's Amendment shows that there still are ignorant people about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " same purpose, and that it is the word \"industry\" to which the Government do not wish to be bound in future. I have always thought that it was perhaps rather a pity, incidentally, that the phrase \"financial assistance\" ever got used in this Act. It rather suggests to ignorant people—the noble Lord's Amendment shows that there still are ignorant people about. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, it suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "thought was foolish, I believe that the one thing which has given him most lasting pleasure is that which he was able to do for production in the areas which suffered so bitterly in the 1930s. Had he been here I should have liked to say that to him. On the other hand, I rather regret what was said by the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay), who played party politics with unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " thinking and the action was immature and probably ineffective, but I want to put on record the fact that, however hard we may fight for what we think is the right action to take, or whatever may be the differences in our political philosophies, in the 1930s we were not sitting back without thinking what could be done to assist the unemployed It is only right that that should be put on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.468.3", "colnum": "468", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " must keep old-age pensions out of politics; we must keep poverty out of politics; we must keep national health out of politics; we must keep housing and slum clearance out of politics; we must keep foreign affairs out of politics; and we must keep national defence out of politics. What in the world will be left in politics if we keep out all the things that hon. Members opposite wish to keep out,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.468.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "e known as special areas before the war unemployment is raising its ugly head to a height which is making everybody in those areas take due notice of it, and is concerning them very much indeed. Hon. Members on all sides of the House have expressed their alarm and their fears. The very fact that the Government have had to introduce the Bill is an indication of the failure of their economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Will these provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL FINANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no time limit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I must go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-04-30", "file": "debates1958-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "51f05eb4288c5725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "New Clause.—(TRAFFIC REGULATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "and 19 ft. wide at the bottleneck, so that, in the narrow part of Knightsbridge, there is a carriageway which is 35 ft. wide and pavements as much as 24 ft. 6 ins. wide. That is a ridiculous proportion, having regard to the great weight of traffic in that area. My positive suggestion, therefore, to cure the problem at Knightbridge, is to bring the pavements down to a width of 7 ft. on either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-04-30a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "But does the Prime Minister not agree that the use of the term \"insignificant\" in relation to genetic hazards is misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.566.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "se: the Gonad dose of radiation attributable to the fallout from nuclear weapon explosions is less than 1 per cent. of the natural background radiation. That is less than 1 per cent. of what we cannot avoid being subject to by being born and living on this earth. It is interesting also to note that medical diagnostic radiology is at least 22 per cent. of the natural background radiation per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.566.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. That is a great travesty of the story of last year. The right hon. Gentleman is one of those men who always thinks his own country wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.570.6", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir but I would also remind the right hon. Gentleman that the proposals put up by the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.570.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.570.7", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir but I would also remind the right hon. Gentleman that the proposals put up by the—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I would remind the right hon. Gentleman——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.570.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, under the \"instant alert\" system in the United States, the President has to be in constant contact with the Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Omaha and we have been assured that, even when he is playing golf, Mr. Eisenhower is in constant contact by means of a portable radio? Is it not important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I was not criticising the President of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "HOUSING (LOCAL AUTHORITY BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my right hon. Friend is in possession of any later figures, but I am sure that it is within the knowledge of hon. Members on both sides of the Committee that there is very considerable under-occupation at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.603.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "HOUSING (LOCAL AUTHORITY BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I think that if the income of the family goes up, then they should be thrown out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "HOUSING (LOCAL AUTHORITY BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the Socialists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "If those figures show that the Government are not allowing sufficient houses to be built, I can only say that between 1945 and 1950 there was even more Government interference, on that argument. It is obvious to those of us who know Birmingham that the problem of clearing the slums is being tackled to a major extent for the first time in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.621.5", "colnum": "621", "heading": "HOUSING (LOCAL AUTHORITY BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Local people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "rcrowded cities is the influx of coloured people. I know that they are entitled to come here, and that most of them are British people. Nevertheless, they seriously aggravate the situation. It may well be that they are not in the majority on the waiting lists and that an examination of the housing waiting lists will show that only a small proportion of the applicants are coloured and Irish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.621.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "HOUSING (LOCAL AUTHORITY BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": ", the Government's special concern, is to make sure that the country is doing enough to meet the needs of the old people. In the years immediately after the war, it was felt, and naturally felt, that we must build primarily family houses. There were so many married couples with children who urgently needed housing accommodation. Over a large part of the country—not all—that need has now been met——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "tain sections of the population against poliomyelitis. I have no need to remind the Committee of the serious nature of this disease, which can have fatal consequences, but probably the attention of the ordinary person is drawn to the fact that it can cause permanent paralysis of a most crippling nature. No one, I think, will charge me or hon. Members on this side with trying to make party capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "ould be a temporary measure only, to bridge the gap until adequate supplies of British vaccine became available, and then should stop. Secondly, there was no reason to foresee at that time the almost total interruption of British supplies that has occurred. Thirdly, parents were given a right of refusal of Salk vaccine and so no estimate could be made of the degree to which it would be acceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was at least honest when he said that he was speaking for Burroughs Wellcome and Company who work in his constituency. Surely he should be logical in this matter. There was no importation of this vaccine until last September, although we are informed tonight that it will be imported immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.686.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.687.4", "colnum": "687", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member realise that he is giving me my case? He is saying that the Minister has left the production of this most important vaccine simply to a firm which is unfitted in all ways to produce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "very simple question. The question at issue is: did the Minister, or his predecessor, have sufficient acumen to be able to provide for the contingencies which must needs arise in respect of this serious disease? He knew that precautions had to be taken against poliomyelitis. He knew that there was a vaccine, or vaccines, available. It is no use dithering whether one vaccine is better than another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member must withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ounds of Government money been spent on them on the recommendation of the Medical Research Council? The answers are these. No undertakings whatsoever have been given to Glaxo and Burroughs Wellcome. The Medical Research Council prefers British vaccine on purely medical grounds. So far as money goes, no money whatever, apart from the purchase price of the vaccine, has been given to those companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "rroughs Wellcome. The Medical Research Council prefers British vaccine on purely medical grounds. So far as money goes, no money whatever, apart from the purchase price of the vaccine, has been given to those companies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member must withdraw.\"] The Committee may wish to know what sort of inquiries the hon. Gentleman made before making that sort of slander in this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.702.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-01", "file": "debates1958-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "9d402289a8ad5595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Edelman rose——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-01a.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-02", "file": "debates1958-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a19c8e86fbd43114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-02a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the principle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I agree with very much of what the hon. Gentleman has said. I do not mind in the least being accused of being rigid where, in my view, a point of principle is at stake, as it is in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-02a.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-02", "file": "debates1958-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a19c8e86fbd43114", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-02a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 11.—(REPORTS AS TO ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUTURE CARE AND UP- BRINGING OF CHILDREN.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "t the Third Reading of the Bill. We have had an opportunity of congratulating the hon. Member for Oldbury and Halesowen (Mr. Moyle), the promoter of the Bill, on his good fortune, but since he has said so many kind things about all of us, it is only fair that we should take the opportunity to say something kind about him. I now do that on behalf, I hope, of both sides of the House in this context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-02a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman made it quite clear last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.840.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Surely the position is quite clear, which is that the Russians are perfectly able and free to speak for themselves and the Poles and the Czechs, but that each of the Western countries must speak for itself. Does my right hon. and gallant Friend agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.840.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the working-class people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that comes within the Standing Order. The matter is not urgent to that extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.854.6", "colnum": "854", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "f Londoners are grossly inconvenienced by the strike. As to whether the matter is urgent or not, it would seem to us that it is urgent, because matters of this character, if left, turn into rather bitter antagonism. No one can say at this moment how far this strike can spread. When tempers are roused, and feelings run high, and there is a refusal by a Minister, obviously for purely party purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.854.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Member is thinking of is the strike. That is a matter for which the Minister, strictly speaking, is not responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "On the one hand, there is a strike which, as I have explained, is not the direct responsibility of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.903.2", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ciated that the lack of uniformity which they deplore and have used to illustrate their point has itself come into existence under specific percentage grants. They are falling into the logical mistake of seeking to press the Committee to restore the possibility of using percentage grant in order to remedy a situation which has already come into existence through the operation of percentage grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.903.2", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "dividual authorities. My hon. Friend the Member for Tyne-mouth (Dame Irene Ward) asked particularly about Northumberland. She, too, said there had been a lack of uniformity in the past. I hope, therefore, that she will not support this Amendment, the practical effect of which would be to make it possible to bring back the type of grant which produced the lack of uniformity of which she complains.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend says she is not interested in the old percentage grant, but in her earlier speech she said she was not sure whether to vote against the Amendment, the effect of which would bring back in part the old percentage grant. This is a free country and a free Parliament, and she can vote as she wishes, but if she does vote against this Government she will have to explain to her constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.906.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d by a percentage grant, increased by 18 per cent.; and yet on the services which were not aided by specific grants, services which the local authorities had to finance entirely out of their own resources, the expenditure increased, not by 16 per cent., not by 18 per cent., but by 24 per cent. The reason for it was that public opinion operated strongly in the direction of operating those services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "I thought I made that clear at the beginning, that it was not the Government, it was the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government should produce concrete figures which would indicate the likely financial effect of this Bill. My right hon. Friend did so. He produced the document referred to, the hypothetical illustration. From that moment onwards we heard not one single word from the opposite side about the contents of the document for which they had pressed so strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "there was something strange, even something faintly comic, in the idea that places like Bournemouth, Blackpool, Brighton or Eastbourne could be hard up. They thought of such places in terms of the amenities they found when they went there on holiday. They assumed that such places were rich. They forgot that in a seaside resort it is our duty to conceal our troubles behind a fixed smile of welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "serious debate on National Assistance Regulations. I must not develop this argument, because it would be out of order, Sir Charles, but I very well remember being sent for by, as he was then, Mr. Hudson, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. He explained to me that the northern group of Conservative M.P.s must not publish their views on the new National Assistance Regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " of order, Sir Charles, but I very well remember being sent for by, as he was then, Mr. Hudson, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. He explained to me that the northern group of Conservative M.P.s must not publish their views on the new National Assistance Regulations—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and, when I protested, Mr. Hudson said to me that he would create hell in my division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blackpool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "and I am sorry that the hon. Member for East Bournemouth and Christchurch (Mr. N. Nicolson) is not in his place, because I am sure he must be highly gratified tonight by the way in which Member after Member on the opposite side of the Committee has received this straying lamb back into the fold. It will be a great surprise to me, after this, if the hon. Gentleman is not the official candidate for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.965.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "y that I know that he has studied this case very carefully and has been applying his mind to try to solve the problem. He said, first of all, that, despite all the attempts which he had put to his advisers he had been unable to get from his advisers or to devise himself a way of achieving the objects which we had in mind, except for the Clause on transitional provisions which we have yet to reach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-05", "file": "debates1958-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "f5471bd94e1f975b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take a vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "ite all the attempts which he had put to his advisers he had been unable to get from his advisers or to devise himself a way of achieving the objects which we had in mind, except for the Clause on transitional provisions which we have yet to reach. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] What I was not clear about, nor were other hon. Members, was exactly what he has in mind about these transitional provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-05a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, I have three Questions on the Order Paper on this matter. May I ask the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1037.7", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(GENERAL GRANTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Toby Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Toby Low", "preceding_text": "In view of what my right hon. Friend the Minister said yesterday, and after further consideration of the matter and seeing his words in HANSARD, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1037.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 9.—(RATING OF INDUSTRIAL AND FREIGHT-TRANSPORT HEREDITAMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ve been told that industry is not paying it fair share of the burden of local expenditure and that it receives a lot of services for which, financially, it makes no contribution. To an extent that is true, but I think it also fair to point out that the majority of the larger firms provide their own internal fire services, their own internal first-aid and, in many cases, doctor and medical service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 9.—(RATING OF INDUSTRIAL AND FREIGHT-TRANSPORT HEREDITAMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A minority Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "Under a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 15.—(ADJUSTMENTS TRANSITIONAL ON COMING INTO EFFECT OF PART I.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has said, which is, of course, in line with the spirit in which he has approached this difficult problem throughout. But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 15.—(ADJUSTMENTS TRANSITIONAL ON COMING INTO EFFECT OF PART I.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Low", "preceding_text": "—but this is what we on this side regard as a very serious problem for our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-06", "file": "debates1958-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "030e2e67f1909cc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(LIABILITY TO CHARGE (RECOVERABLE AS A RATE) OF OWNER OF UNOCCUPIED HEREDITAMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": " Many thousands of people will still not have the opportunity of protection under that Bill. The question is: where are they to go? The councils cannot take them. They cannot buy the houses. There will be empty houses which it will be possible to occupy, but the Minister merely turns his head and says that it does not matter—I nearly said something which might not have been Parliamentary language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-06a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-07", "file": "debates1958-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "569469aef92f7a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "eavy baggage? How long is this situation to continue? Is it Government policy to reinforce the area and, if so, will it be done with units posted to the area in reasonable and normal conditions, because, as the hon. Gentleman knows, it is not a pleasant climate in Aden? Is the hon. Gentleman satisfied that reasonable amenities are being provided for these men? Is their post arriving, for example?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-07", "file": "debates1958-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "569469aef92f7a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE ACT, 1770 (JUDICIAL COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the decision of the Judicial Committee will be greeted with some consternation by the general public as being a dangerous extension of the privileges of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-07", "file": "debates1958-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "569469aef92f7a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(TEACHERS, &C., NOT TO BE DISQUALIFIED FOR MEMBERSHIP OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I do not want to hear another teacher. I want to develop an argument of my own. The trouble with teachers is that they want to talk to the class and never to listen. If the argument is that the teacher has always been the man among the boys, it is better for him occasionally to listen to men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-07", "file": "debates1958-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "569469aef92f7a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(TEACHERS, &C., NOT TO BE DISQUALIFIED FOR MEMBERSHIP OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "epresenting the consumer in a way. We have to reconcile these difficulties which my hon. Friend has put by this special pleading on behalf of only some people who are employed in local government service, but my hon. Friends always burke the final question. If we are to say that municipal employees have no right to serve on their county council, on their local council and on their parish council —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-07", "file": "debates1958-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "569469aef92f7a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1340.13", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 33.—(CONSTITUTION OF COUNTY BOROUGHS: PRESUMPTION AS TO SIZE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "of my argument is to try to persuade the House that a county borough can undertake effective and convenient local government services with a population of 75,000. There was no Amendment on these lines in the Standing Committee and there was very little discussion about the matter. I can only assume that that was because there was no representative of a non-county borough in the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-07a.1340.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": "But does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that it is the continuing and inept delay of Her Majesty's Government which has contributed to the increasing danger of the situation in Cyprus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "As we are within a fortnight of the Christmas Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1422.2", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "dgets which have the general effect of redistributing the national wealth in favour of the better off—these policies cannot be pursued without them having a serious and deleterious effect on the workers. These policies are the reason why there is an increase in the cost of living in the United Kingdom, far higher than in Western European countries and, indeed, far higher than in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1422.2", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "tries and, indeed, far higher than in the United States—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Those hon. Members who say \"Nonsense\" need only turn up the statistics produced by the European organisation, O.E.E.C., and available to them in the Library, and they will see what is the position. Up to February of this year, the cost of living in the United Kingdom has risen by 31 per cent. from 1950. In Austria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1422.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ings in Western Germany is 59 per cent. In Britain, it is 61 per cent. The rise in earnings in this country is higher by 2 per cent. than in Western Germany. But the rise in prices in Western Germany is 14 per cent. and in the United Kingdom it is 43 per cent., so that the real increase in the standard of living of the Germans is 45 per cent. compared with our 18 per cent. The natural consequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ng the reception of their policies in the country, and I can appreciate that they may get some comfort in a debate of this character by grimacing as the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Mr. D. Price) is able to do so well. But at least I have this advantage that, in opening the debate, I have all the time before me until ten o'clock; and I do not believe that anyone in the House would want to bear that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "he Government to be prepared to deny the extra cash whatever other painful consequence. I have no doubt that his American audience cheered him at that stage. Not content with that, next day the right hon. Gentleman moved to Atlantic City and, repeating the same thought, he said to another American audience: The consequences may be painful but are much preferable to a decline in the value of the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is back again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "iamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power. He said, in the House: This present inflation is caused by unreasonable wage claims. The cost of living today is the cost of Cousins.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th July, 1957; Vol. 574, c. 705.] Of course, I leave to the last our oldest ally, who seems to be missing from his normal place, the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "nt intended it or not, certainly among those who have to negotiate there had been an undermining of the principle of arbitration. This feeling was increased, with the decision of the Minister of Health on the Whitley Council recommendation. While it is true that this was not an arbitration award, it is always regarded in a way as a technicality for the Minister to subscribe to the recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "gard as the two main problems facing our industrial life in the second half of the twentieth century. First, how is it possible in a modern society like ours, pledged to the maintenance of full employment and the Welfare State, to adjust personal incomes so as to provide an ever-increasing standard of living for all without inflation and without weakening the £? That is the 64,000 dollar question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister does not want to settle it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "t no one in the House cannot be conscious of the inconvenience that the bus strike has caused. One should record one's admiration for those who work in and near London for the remarkable way in which they have responded, as they always do, to a very difficult situation. The mere wish of the Minister of Labour to settle a dispute does not settle it. If it did, he would have a very easy life indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "ks, and a few months. In all these cases, timing simply must be everything. It must be of the first importance, surely, in this particular case. I genuinely believe that, in the particular circumstances of the bus dispute and the strike which we had on Monday, any of my predecessors would have done exactly the same. I do not, with respect to them, believe that they would have intervened on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1447.5", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1447.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1447.8", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Mr. Macleod rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1447.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say 'Thank you'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman understand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "se proposes to put forward only one side of the dispute, we ought to reflect for a moment on where we are going, because we are coming to the position when it is not possible for half the House to criticise an official strike, whatever the merits of it may be; we are coming to the position when it is not possible for half the House even to admit that restrictive labour practices exist in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty-five shillings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow the hon. Member's reasoning. What I find difficult to follow is this. I feel sure that the hon. Member must know that, because of the action of the Government which he is supporting, the rents of London busmen have been put up by 8s., 10s., 12s. 6d. or 15s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1472.4", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has just as much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "n have some measure of agreement on my next point. The trade union movement is a great and important part of the country. It has great and important rights. For many years, nobody has questioned that or attempted to deny it. The corollary follows, however, that the trade union section of the country is no more important than any other section. It has no more inherent rights than any other section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1472.4", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "two major principles which the party opposite is trying to state and which, I think, are wrong and against its own interests and which, I repeat, the party opposite certainly did not practise when it was in power. The corollary of what the right hon. Member for Blyth said is that the moment there is any kind of an industrial dispute, the Minister of Labour has to leap into the centre of the arena.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "ies. It might be urged that the Minister of Labour should step in to persuade the union to back down. Is that what they are after? Is that how they want the strike stopped? Is the Minister of Labour to come in to bully, bulldoze or persuade the union to back down? There is only one other alternative left. That is that they want the Minister of Labour to step in to force the employers to back down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "I have put forward every possible alternative, and the party opposite does not like any of them. That does not surprise me, either, but I think the charge has struck, and I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for proving it. Of course, we can always avoid strikes and all industrial disputes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1475.4", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "No, I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1475.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Find the money.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ay that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"] The hon. Gentleman is putting up his own Aunt Sallies and knocking them down by means of his own alternatives. He said that there were only three alternatives for the Minister of Labour, and I said that there was another, and that was that the Minister of Labour could ask his Government to tell the Executive that they should pay the increase, and that the cost——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1475.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1476.3", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "say quite frankly, as a member for a country district—and any other Member from a country district knows it too—that if we want to name a group of workers unfairly paid in relation to the rest of industry, then the group par excellence in this country is that of the farm workers. But who are the people who kept the farm-workers at the bottom of the scale? The trade union movement, and nobody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "d the retired on small incomes who have been the victims of inflation. Surely there can be no denial of that. I ask hon. Members opposite in all fairness to face this issue if they are serious. If they state that an increase in the cost of living every year must be made up to the trade unionists, they will have to explain to the rest of the community why the trade unionists are a privileged class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member's party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "r economic problems today are at their doorstep. Anybody would think that they had just been returned to power and had accepted all this as a legacy of the past. For six years they have been governing the country. The right hon. Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) said, with tears in his eyes, \"We are now in the grip of inflation, but we shall get out of it together\". Who put us in the grip?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1491.2", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the bus strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "I was suggesting that the glee was not, perhaps, so much at the prospect of the unemployment, but because it would happen under a Tory Government and bring that Government down. It did not happen; it certainly has not happened since, and it will not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1491.2", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "of the strike. A lot of Aunt Sallies having been put up ahead of them, the last two questions ask: Do you agree that to bring this about\"— that is, some new Utopia— a change of Government is necessary? The last question asks: Do you agree that we should, as organised workers, campaign for an early General Election and for the return of a Labour Government pledged to carry out a progressive policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1491.2", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "u agree that … Government cuts in house-building, schools and hospitals retard consumer demand for furniture and furnishings? What a misrepresentation of the facts. When we consider the number of new school places provided under this Government over the last few years, when we consider the immense output in housing under this Government over the last few years, when we consider the overall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1493.5", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not even the Tory Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "d to one of the duties of the trade unions as seeing that their members are not slipping back in the race, he hit on one of the great difficulties we face if today we try to tackle this problem seriously. There are thousands of people who do not have the advantage of being represented by any trade union who feel they have been constantly slipping back in a race with no one to champion their cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Popplewell", "preceding_text": " thing to do. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to feel that it was sacrilege that my right hon. Friend the Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) should put forward a case now that the country was in trouble. The right hon. Gentleman taunted my right hon. Friend with attempting to put the trade union case. What utter nonsense that was. There is no question of a trade union case being put from these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1500.3", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "ng cost of living. Events have shown that in foreign affairs this country is playing a secondary rôle. Our influence in the world is very low. In colonial affairs it is difficult to find a bright spot anywhere; there is trouble wherever we turn. On the home front we find the Rent Act; the falling value of the £; a constantly soaring cost of living, and a gross neglect of old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did you write yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "We have listened to a lot of speeches from right hon. and hon. Members opposite, most of which, I suspect, were written yesterday, before they heard the speech of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1503.6", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "d out their policies virtually unhindered. They brought the nation's industry to a standstill for three weeks. They devalued the £, which put up the cost of living by 30 per cent. They neglected the interests of the old-age pensioners. They had the most appalling housing record that any Government have ever had. The Socialist Party's record in education is the most disgraceful for a hundred years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1503.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1503.6", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": " I have one question to put to the right hon. Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) in connection with his speech. He talked about the award, which was not accepted by the Transport and General Workers' Union but was accepted by the London Transport Executive. What would have been the attitude of the Labour Party if the union had accepted this award and the London Transport Executive had refused to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1503.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1507.4", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady ought not to be frivolous about this very serious matter. I want now to come to the immediate question of the strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1507.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentlemen opposite to deplore— the refusal of the Minister of Labour in pursuance of the economic and industrial policy of Her Majesty's Government to attempt to bring about a settlement of the London bus dispute which is causing great inconvenience and hardship to the general public. I submit that every strike, if it is to be worth while, must inevitably cause inconvenience and hardship.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "rit in the trade union movement, so for myself I hope very sincerely that the impression of industrial action for political ends that some people have gained, I hope mistakenly, from the T.U.C. statement will be dispelled by the future conduct of the T.U.C. I beg right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite not to call industrial strike into being to restore the balance of power within the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "eader of the Opposition, any in than there is anything surprising n an attack upon the Minister of Labour. What I did find strange were the grounds of this attack. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to be very upset that I had announced last Monday that we would put a Motion upon the Order Paper. He seems to have forgotten that it was at the suggestion of Mr. Speaker that a Motion should be put down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " claim, but we were arguing about the behaviour of the right hon. Gentleman. To that, for a moment or two, I now wish to turn. My right hon. Friend dealt with this question so thoroughly that it is not necessary for me to say much more, particularly in view of the totally unconvincing reply of the Minister of Labour, but I want to pick up, very briefly, the three points on which we criticised him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why did he go to arbitration then?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " emphasise the background to the whole dispute. The Transport and General Workers' Union went to the Industrial Court, but that was not its first choice. Its first choice was a committee of inquiry. Furthermore, when it went to the Court, its general secretary announced, quite specifically and publicly, that it would not necessarily be bound by the award. That was made perfectly clear at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " he is not likely to be successful unless the Government adopt a far more flexible policy towards the nationalised industries. I also warmly support my right hon. Friend in his proposal, which lost nothing by reason of his deep sincerity on these questions of industrial relations, that the Government should try to repair their relations with the T.U.C. I know that they will not be able to do this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "le policy towards the nationalised industries. I also warmly support my right hon. Friend in his proposal, which lost nothing by reason of his deep sincerity on these questions of industrial relations, that the Government should try to repair their relations with the T.U.C. I know that they will not be able to do this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—unless they are prepared to modify some of their policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "pon the Government of the day. We therefore thought it right that, in accordance with tradition, it should be disposed of as rapidly as possible. Naturally, in a debate of this kind there are moments of controversy and even of heat, but in spite of this, both in the House and in the country, I have sensed a genuine desire that we should try to grapple with this question as objectively as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tration, for it has been referred to by many speakers, including the right hon. Member for Blyth, who opened the debate, and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. As the House well knows, there are many types of arbitration. There is the type of arbitration which follows a voluntary reference to an industrial court. In this case there is a moral obligation or, rather, a tradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "position that follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "position that follows. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] That is what we need in Parliamentary government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "position that follows. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] That is what we need in Parliamentary government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign now.\"] The right hon. Gentleman ran away from the problem when it became difficult for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-08", "file": "debates1958-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "b2f685579463717c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "position that follows. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] That is what we need in Parliamentary government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign now.\"] The right hon. Gentleman ran away from the problem when it became difficult for him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] When the rise of prices and the state of sterling got too much for him, the right hon. Gentleman led the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-08a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-09", "file": "debates1958-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "518a2428bbd3990d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-09a.1605.2", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WORKING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "n the party opposite, precipitously as I think, took over the railways after the war, the railways, which did a fine job during the war, were worn out, and, except for Government grants, were bankrupt. Sometimes, I am tempted to think that if hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite had not been in such a hurry in 1945 to pay a big price for the railways, they could have got them almost for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-09a.1605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-09", "file": "debates1958-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "518a2428bbd3990d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-09a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WORKING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "arried. This is a falling market, and there is no easy way in which to find the money. On the other hand, I think it is fair to say that, in the second part of the hon. Gentleman's speech, he attacked my party for doing nothing, or not doing enough. It should go on record that in the last seven years, while this Administration has been in power, about £15 million has been spent in welfare schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-09a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-09", "file": "debates1958-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "518a2428bbd3990d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-09a.1607.3", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "RAILWAYS (WORKING CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ham, which is a fairly big railway depot, and I looked out of a window of one of the great modern factories built at Immingham Reach, and was surprised to see two things On the old-fashioned railway that runs from Immingham to Grimsby, trucks were standing waiting to take away the products of this modern factory. In the yard were scores of motorcars owned by the workers, who are clubbing together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-09a.1607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-12", "file": "debates1958-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8866bdd8c752c547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "After pouring all these hundreds of millions into the market to make conditions easier for the miners and to increase production, is not all the thanks the taxpayer has received for this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-12", "file": "debates1958-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8866bdd8c752c547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": " 5, and the Fourth Schedule, provide a corollary to the changes in the rate of duty on imported heavy wine, and bring about a corresponding reduction for wines produced in this country. I am told that \"sweets\" is a statutory term which goes back to the seventeenth century. It is used rather than \"wine\" because it covers fermented drinks made from fruit other than grape and also mead and metheglin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-12", "file": "debates1958-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8866bdd8c752c547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. and learned Friend permit one question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-12", "file": "debates1958-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8866bdd8c752c547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I quite agree. The hon. Member would regard that as an essential, but I regard a carpet just as much as an essential. I regard as an essential a television set. I regard as an essential a radio set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-12", "file": "debates1958-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8866bdd8c752c547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A sales tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Gentleman would not wish to misquote me. What I suggested was a single, flat rate of tax applicable to all the articles at present attracting Purchase Tax, to yield the same revenue as the present Purchase Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-12", "file": "debates1958-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "8866bdd8c752c547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.130.5", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I think it has been known for hon. Members of the Liberal Party to go into both Lobbies on some occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-12a.130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was just after the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman flying in the face of all experience when he says that? Is he aware that when we were in office we built factories not only in Anglesey but elsewhere in that part of the world? Also we built advance factories in many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Hulbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Hulbert", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that hon. Members on the Government Benches were very appreciative of the invitation of the Air Council to attend this conference, which we found was most instructive? Does he also realise that we very much resent the futile endeavours of the Opposition to make party capital out of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "of Commons, the House of Lords, other Government Departments such as the Admiralty and the Ministry of Defence—that all kinds of people seem to have been there, and there must be a fairly wide knowledge of what took place, although different impressions were no doubt made on different people, as we have heard today. With regard to the constitutional point, it would be a mistake to exaggerate this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.223.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Defence was aware of it. Unfortunately, both he and the Secretary of State for War were invited but were not able to attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.224.6", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is not the Prime Minister aware that that kind of silly retort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.224.6", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is not the Prime Minister aware that that kind of silly retort—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—is no substitute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT SUPPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "angle it, to the industry straight away. The Government therefore propose to continue research as a whole for the time being at roughly the existing level. As civil research becomes more and more identifiable, then the cost of that research will be passed in course of time on to the industry itself, although the actual execution of the research may well still be done in a Government establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": ". The very furthest that my right hon. Friend can go now is bound to be subject to the effluxion of time and to changes of Governments and of Parliaments. It is always possible to minimise the effect of any undertaking given. Before the Bill leaves us I hope that my right hon. Friend will make more clear this point, which most closely affects the most important non-county borough in Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "t for survival, about which the Parliamentary Secretary spoke today, the Lord President thought it more important to save the Tory Party than to save the schools. Judging by the mess he has made of saving the Tory Party, I am rather glad he is no longer trying to save the schools. However, since those days we seem to have neither heard nor seen any sign of the existence of a Minister of Education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Horsepower is important.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "The description of local government by the hon. and learned Member for the City of Chester (Mr. Temple) was interesting and illuminating. One moment local government was on the back of the chassis and the next moment one wondered where it was. The important thing for local government is that the chassis should be well lubricated and the vehicle well stocked with fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.303.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.349.5", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRISTMAS ISLAND BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too late.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.351.4", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRISTMAS ISLAND BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are the birds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "ber for Ormskirk (Mr. Glover), who has been giving me guidance about my speech, but I am wondering whether there is anything about the history of the phosphates company which might be brought to light to assist us in our attitude towards this Bill. What is the haste about this Bill? What has happened to that company, which owned the mineral rights in Christmas Island? There is nothing else to own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.351.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRISTMAS ISLAND BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Orbach", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Orbach", "preceding_text": "onwealth nationality, and that they may visit their families and friends in Singapore from time to time when their terms of duty expire. The hon. Gentleman said—the House should know this—that they may be offered registration as Australian citizens and that the Australian Government would look with sympathy at any request for entry into Australia. It is that last phrase about which I am concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRISTMAS ISLAND BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wake him up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that this Bill is being treated in this flippant manner by hon. Gentlemen opposite. Normally they claim to be far more interested in the Commonwealth and Empire than are hon. Members on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-13", "file": "debates1958-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb685ac27f7df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " figures involved for fuel consumption. It would be fair to add, as I have endeavoured to sort the local authorities as between those which are qualified to do this difficult work and those which are not, that I believe that delegated power should be given only to the major authorities. I was asked in Committee to define what I meant by major authorities. I was in no way hesitant about the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-13a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ring him up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "preceding_text": "tatement he has just made will give general satisfaction, and that the improved technique both in manufacture and also in operating performance, is a tribute both to the industry and to the engineers at Dollis Hill? May I ask my hon. Friend how soon he anticipates that existing stocks will be liquidated, and also when the new telephone will be in general manufacture? Is it proposed to discontinue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "pecial development, such as visualised in the Amendment. We want the Secretary of State's assurance along those lines. This is in no way disrespectful to the Joint Under-Secretary of State; we are not pushing him aside. I do not insinuate for one moment that his personal view is much different from ours. Unfortunately, he has the terrible handicap of belonging to the party to which he is attached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "y of education, getting down and down to the minimum and with no spark of effort to get forward. The whole history of Scottish education and our local authorities has been to drive forward in education. In the last six years, expenditure in Scotland has been doubled. Surely, that is an advance. Why should local authorities, who are now sure of getting as much money as will meet their future needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members may know that a great deal can be done by personal representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "that what I have said is right. I think I have correctly repeated what the Joint Under-Secretary said just now, and what the Secretary of State himself said on an earlier occasion. Of course, if what I have said stands up, and I think it does, it must make nonsense of any promise which the Secretary of State made to the noble Lady the Member for Aberdeen, South (Lady Tweedsmuir) behind the scenes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "handicap would be imposed by reimposing the burden. I said that derating was willingly given, as it was, and now they tear and rend industry for the concession so willingly given by the local authorities. It has been in being not for a year or two, but for a long time. Indeed it was willingly continued during the years of the Socialist Administration. Industry was not poor then, it was prosperous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "rghs who said that one of the most stupid things to do is to do anything which will stop people working. Therefore, to accept this Amendment would be one of the most stupid things to do. The English Bill has left the House of Commons. The House of Commons cannot alter it now. To accept this Amendment would be to make a differentiation in this matter between this Scottish Bill and the English Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"Get back to the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " follow. I saw Sir Gordon looking gently towards him. You restrained yourself, Sir Gordon, so I will not stretch your powers of restraint too far. But has not the hon. Member for Motherwell realised the profound difference between the philosophy of his party and that of those on this side? His party is tied up to the hilt in controls for control's sake, quite irrelevant to the needs of the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite must learn that when I am on my feet I do my best to answer the debate. The moment I start to answer, if they do not like my answer to the speech that has just been made, they say, \"Come to the Amendment,\" regardless of the fact that the previous speaker did not speak at all about the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.527.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-14", "file": "debates1958-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d207b74d0082d743", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Always.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "t it was his hon. Friend the Joint Under-Secretary who was more frank when, in Committee, he said: Getting rid of expiring laws continuance is in line with our general policy of getting rid of wartime controls, but we appreciate that some control by the Government over spending by local authorities will always be necessary.'—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Scottish Standing Committee, 22nd April, 1958; c. 639.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-14a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does not the Home Secretary realise that that Answer does not cover this Question? Does he realise that Britain lags behind other civilised countries in this respect? Does he further realise that it is hopeless to expect finance in this matter from the criminal who commits the damage because such criminals are generally impecunious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.605.4", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at Parkhurst there is an average of considerably less than two prisoners to one officer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.605.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": " these things which are on the pre-war list are no longer allowable? Is he further aware that if upon entry a man cannot be persuaded to sell his clothes they remain in his case, perhaps for seven years, and that when he opens it a lot of things, such as braces, have perished? A constituent of mine was discharged recently and was given this bit of cloth as all that was left to tie up his trousers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.652.5", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": " not believe that because we have not yet been able to devise a formula which has pleased everybody we cannot devise a formula, perhaps with some alterations in it, which will give a greater measure of justice and also a greater measure of encouragement to those local authorities which are at present lagging behind. To all those who worry about the formula, I say that now is not the time to worry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.652.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The intervention of the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) proves once again what has been proved before in other matters raised by him—that a little learning is a dangerous thing. It would have been far better if the Joint Under-Secretary had attempted to justify this strangely objective formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nouncements regarding the law of Scotland. Here, we are dealing with a matter of very complex accountancy. Why throw the Law Officers at us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.671.6", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or second sight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Once again I should like to congratulate the Government, as I have done on one or two occasions, on following the excellent lead set by the Opposition. This, again, is an Amendment which we moved in Committee. The Government at that time refused to accept it, but evidently even with this Government there are periods when they have second thoughts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.671.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.719.8", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "ent central authority on a percentage of their expenditure. They are now to be given general grants and treated as adults. They will be able to spend their money as they think wise, within the framework of Government policy and in the interests of their electors. That is a very good thing. I promised the hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison) to give her my views on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.719.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-15", "file": "debates1958-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c98cba7cd2ea78a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "st in that requirement. That is exactly what the Regulations seek to do. It is not awfully easy to sell the advantages of the levy to the small cinema, but there is a growing perception that a way should be thought out to get the cinema industry out of its difficulties. There has been an unfortunate reduction in attendances. It may be argued that the Government have rather delayed their first aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-15a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-16", "file": "debates1958-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "501d13fe59e684fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-16a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It looks to the busmen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Jeger", "preceding_text": "o parties to see him separately to discover for himself, and not from their public utterances, what their position is, and to have discussions with them to see whether there is a chink of light in either of their cases which would enable him to bring them together to settle the dispute before it spreads further? The travelling public of London looks to the Government for a solution of this strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-16a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with the unilateral statement. I was asked about a report about that, and I said that we should take into account the circumstances in which it was made. Had it been made before the Soviet tests were made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that this is a matter of the most serious moment and that there is conclusive evidence that there is an overwhelming majority of opinion in this country against the Government's decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "He followed by moving in my general direction for a simplification of the purchase tax, for he readily confessed that two rates of tax would be better than four rates, as I formerly confessed that four rates are, no doubt, better than seven rates. I do not wish to be misunderstood as to my intentions. As always, they are strictly honourable. I said very clearly and precisely, in well-chosen words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "April, 1958; Vol. 586, c. 206.] 4.15 p.m. That is a fair statement, I think, of the Opposition view. It is not my view and it is not the view of many others who sit on this side of the Committee, or of industry, for this reason, that it is impossible in peacetime and in an expanding economy to define what is a luxury. For example, is a mink coat a luxury? If anyone in the Committee answers, \"Yes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Turn round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "w attract Purchase Tax at the highest rate, therefore declaring them to be luxuries. Are toilet preparations really luxuries? I doubt whether any woman in the country would subscribe to the view that her lipstick or her face powder is a luxury. Even so, a very wide range of absolutely essential toilet preparations—not only those used by women, but some used by men and women—come within this range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t is a hangover from the war years, and the years of Socialism, when the then Government believed that it was possible for some gentlemen in Whitehall, obscure and remote from the manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, to have the power to decide what is a luxury, what is an amenity, and what is essential. It is that discrimination to which I object so much, and though I shall support Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "sy, but Parliament is here to do that difficult job, if we want a progressive system of taxation, of distinguishing between what is broadly an essential and what is less of an essential, and what is broadly a luxury and what is less of a luxury. What is wrong with the argument of the hon. Member for Kidderminster is that he is trying to demolish the total case for a progressive system of taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.935.4", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "I will not attempt to intervene in an argument between my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) and the hon. Gentleman the Member for Croydon, North-West (Mr. F. Harris), because every hon. Member of the Committee, except the hon. Member for Croydon, North-West, knows that what we are doing in the next few days is deciding upon particular rates of tax. Primarily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.937.2", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "tax gradually reduced, and an alternative way found of raising the revenue if it be needed. At the same time, I am glad to be able to say that my constituency appreciates the added incentive now given to it. I have been informed that black marketeers in jewellery have been making a profit of about 25 per cent., but now that the tax is reduced by 30 per cent. it allows them only 5 per cent. margin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.937.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ears' experience in the House I think it is a reasonable assumption that the hon. Member for Ladywood has not been particularly successful, whether in the time of the Socialist Government or the Conservative Government. No matter which political party has been in power, the hon. Member has made his case year after year during the past ten years but he still has not got very far with his arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.948.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ould not possibly read that into what I have said. I have said that Ministers are there to be approached and that recommendations and applications are made to them. I am only making the point that there is still too much heat engendered by the sensitiveness of Members of Parliament. There is no doubt about what I said; it was obviously the civil servants, and hon. Members know this to be the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "There are times when it is necessary, but I cannot think that eyelashes, for instance, are necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.951.5", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"False teeth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "When one looks at the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) one would immediately decide that one was wrong. What about false nails? Surely they are not necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.951.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.951.5", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eye shadow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "When one looks at the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) one would immediately decide that one was wrong. What about false nails? Surely they are not necessary. [An HON. MEMBER: \"False teeth.\"] Rouge should not be necessary if one has the fine colouring of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.951.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And wallpaper.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. MacPherson, we were told by your predecessor in the Chair that it was in order to discuss garden furniture and trophy cups under the general heading of haberdashery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-19", "file": "debates1958-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "3cd29c52191f2fe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "erously, and he seemed to think, having, of course, a very large number of powerful advisers behind him, that under this new arrangement for baskets the blind would be better off, but I do want to emphasise that there is a psychological approach to this matter. He seemed to keep referring to what hon. Gentlemen thought. Sometimes hon. Ladies have a better psychological approach than hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-19a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN RHODESIA AND NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the undertaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1098.7", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The reply to the first point is that there is no doubt that the price of butter will be strengthened. It is hard to say by how much. It is difficult to say what will happen, because competition with margarine is very keen. In recent weeks, butter, at its low price, has been gaining substantially on margarine in the market. The price will be strengthened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1098.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " commend to my right hon. Friend, as always in controversial matters of this kind, the Division List of the House. That on 2nd June, 1948 makes instructive reading. My right hon. Friend the present Chancellor of the Exchequer voted for the abolition of Purchase Tax on drugs and medicines. He was supported by the former Chancellor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I repeat my words, subject to confirming them when I read them in HANSARD. I was anxious to ascertain whether my right hon. Friend had in any way changed his views about the imposition of Purchase Tax on proprietary drugs and medicines as a result of the admirable recommendations made by the Guillebaud Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "to that recommendation. That is an excellent argument against the idea of self-medication. Yet that is precisely on what the hon. Gentleman has been basing his argument. He has said that the right of self-medication must be preserved and that taxation of this kind ought not to infringe it. It is a dangerous right in many ways. Whether the right hon. Gentleman applies it to himself in his hygienic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "In view of the assurance given by my hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "t very much of a compliment when we are debating the industry that neither the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury nor the Paymaster-General, who have responsibilities in these fields, are on the Front Bench; but this is what we get, and I take a very poor view about it and hope that something can be done to remedy it before we come to the end of this short debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ber, may I please make a final plea to him in this matter? In his absence I said that this was an absolutely unique case. Everybody claims, when seeking a Purchase Tax concession, that there is something unique about the case he is pleading, but this one is unique, because I just do not believe that there would be any loss to the Treasury in conceding this Amendment. I made a mistake in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1203.2", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t all, but what I am trying to ensure is that people in the country shall understand what is the exact position. I know that the finished garment has carried a 5 per cent. Purchase Tax since the last Budget, if not before, but now the Chancellor has made a change. This change is applied only to woollen cloth, and he has reduced the rate of Purchase Tax by 10 per cent. There is some confusion here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "an outfitter who is voicing the opinions of his colleagues in the trade in the following terms: Dear Sir, I wish to draw your attention to the deceit in the announcement by the Chancellor during his Budget proposals about the abolition of the Purchase Tax on wool cloth. Tax has in fact been dropped, but the deceit lies in the fact that extra tax has been placed upon the making of articles from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "The customer pays the retail price for the cloth before he goes along to the tailor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "to £2 5s. The wholesalers' margin has been reduced from £2 2s. to £1 12s. Unfortunately, the retail margin has been increased by 2s.—from £3 18s. to £4. If, however, we take all the margins of profit that are created throughout the process of making and distributing this tube, we find that the Government, which in 1954 was getting from this Purchase Tax 37 per cent. profit, if we can call it that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask him why he left York.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e. I am surprised that he did not bring his great knowledge of these tax questions to bear on this debate, instead of the unfortunate Solicitor-General having to do so. I say to the Solicitor-General that, despite his new-found association with the City of London—I am sure that he hopes to be associated with the City of London—on his showing tonight he will not make a very good financial Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-20", "file": "debates1958-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "920b5e4138a4b766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIG INDUSTRY (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Champion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Act of 1957.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Champion", "preceding_text": "On this side of the House, while not thinking for one moment that the Act of 1947, particularly the Sections dealing with this industry, will provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-20a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "a substantial relief to these societies, whose chief aim is cultural and educational. As my hon. Friend has said, the revenue from the tax is negligible. The prospects of the Chancellor and the Financial Secretary playing a harp themselves some day would be considerably enhanced if they made this trifling concession. I cannot see any hon. Members from Ireland in the Chamber, but if they were here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "he tax on musical instruments was about £400,000 a year, which is not a great sum when we are talking in terms of a national annual income of £5,500 million. Nevertheless, for the person buying an instrument it is a very large sum indeed. I therefore hope that the Chancellor will be willing to look at the tax on musical instruments again. If he cannot remit the whole of the 30 per cent. this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "I have very great pleasure in supporting the Amendment. I hope that the Chancellor does not think that we from Wales are far-seeing in moving it. This afternoon we are not concerned with the harps above. There will be no Purchase Tax on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member has lost 20 strings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "eans, perhaps he would see me afterwards. Secondly, unlike most musical instruments, the harp is liable to constant breakages. Only five minutes ago I was given the reason for this. I was told that with other instruments one strikes the strings, but with the harp one pulls them, and because of the pulling the strings are always liable to break. I have just said that the Gothic harp has 27 strings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1335.2", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Diamond", "preceding_text": "ic first, and through making it to listen and to understand. The first thing is to make sure, no matter in what simple form, of the growing of the soul of that child. This is something which ought to appeal to the Financial Secretary because he has an added responsibility for a new child. Is the child to have the opportunity of playing the recorder? I anticipate that there is no tax on a recorder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "given to us all. Surely to enable us to have full enjoyment of our scents. Sunburn and skin lotions of various sorts are chargeable at 30 per cent. unless they have an element of scent in them. Sometimes the purpose of a preparation can be achieved only by means of an ingredient which smells. If it is a sort of olfactory neutrality, which is the Chancellor's objective, we must point out that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about timing speeches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "rval timers. 8.45 p.m. Those of us who are not so skilled find that we need to have scales, weights and weighing machines. Those who are busy housewives—I speak for myself—and who very often try to do cooking while possibly preparing a speech to be delivered in this House, regard an interval timer as almost essential. It tells me when I have to return to the kitchen stove from studying at my desk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1413.3", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "s, \"What does it matter, a mere matter of £13,000 a year tax on pastry boards? Who will lose any sleep over that? Who will go short of a pastry board?\" I was recently told that during the war one of the results of our economic planning was that notepaper got thinner and toilet paper got thicker. As far as I remember, this represents precisely what happened in relation to trying to keep costs down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "with a sieve, is penalised by a tax on the sieve, whereas the ugly sisters, who require the pomade, the false eyelashes and the lipstick, are singled out for the Chancellor's favours and get a 30 per cent. reduction. I confess that I do not think that the Chancellor looks like a bold, bad baron. I could much more easily visualise the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) in that rôle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": "sed. My hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale), in an interesting speech, referred to pastry boards and rolling pins. I know from experience that many people cannot afford to buy rolling pins and have to use bottles instead. It is out of the question for them to purchase a Pyrex rolling pin because they might have to pay 10s. or more for such an article. I can use a rolling pin myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-21", "file": "debates1958-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2088e9baeddf25d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "The officials in the Treasury have been so bemused that they have genuflected to the West rather than to the East. They have worshipped at the shrine of the sacred cow of my hon. Friend—the sacred cow of standardisation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-21a.1448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-22", "file": "debates1958-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "89f7f19924a4d6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman asked me to answer this question-I would say, without endeavouring to be precise, that as we see other powerful countries, the United States and Soviet Russia, entering on the exploration of space travel, it is just possible that their energies will be so absorbed in space travel exploration that their attention will be deflected from more humdrum things in the field of air transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-22", "file": "debates1958-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "89f7f19924a4d6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "most hon. Members have been anxious to pursue their personal, private interests or their constituency interests, with very little regard to the wider implications of their proposals. I want to strike new ground and to say that I wholeheartedly support the Minister of Supply in his statement. Indeed, I have only one regret about his statement, and it is that it was not made at least five years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-22", "file": "debates1958-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "89f7f19924a4d6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": " the better credit terms offered by the Americans. As a consequence of what is being done today, I hope we shall have a better aircraft manufacturing industry than we have had in the past ten years. We can have. There is no question, as one hon. Member said, about cutting down research. The Minister is perfectly clear and logical on this point. I cannot understand why people fail to appreciate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-05-22", "file": "debates1958-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "89f7f19924a4d6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fine words.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "tives are, I am sure, conscious of the responsibility which lies upon them. The day-to-day management, however, devolves on the board. I hope the board will agree that if anything can be done to alleviate the position at Short Brothers by extending its sales organisation, hotting up its processes, or whatever it might be, to get orders, it should be dealing with this as a matter of first priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-05-22a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "There are certainly more dwellings coming into the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.8.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RADIATION HAZARDS (DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman think that the recent overtures of the American Government to the important proposals of the Soviet Government are a Left-wing stunt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "nitiative to try to get the two parties together? Surely it is unfair to say that the Government think that the London Transport Executive ought not to move from the position which it took up, but expect the Union to move. The Minister knows that the two parties got very close to an agreement. It seems to me, and, I suggest, to the public of London generally, who, I believe, are behind the busmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "LONDON OMNIBUS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The busmen are not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Assuming that there are faults on both sides—on the side of the Transport Executive and the busmen's union—is there not some responsibility resting on the shoulders of the right hon. Gentleman? Is he not concerned with the convenience of the general public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ested to the U.S.S.R. against a new series of Soviet atomic and hydrogen tests announced on 27th August, 1957. On 5th September, Professor V. Beloussov, a leading Soviet geophysicist, informed an international scientific conference in Toronto that \"many hundreds\" of Russian scientists had petitioned the Soviet Government calling for the cessation of all nuclear tests. That is in the \"slave State.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "nt. I must say that I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman's speech, which I tried to follow carefully, left us with the impression of any shining clarity on his side. I confess that I was a little distressed that the so-called \"shadow\" Foreign Secretary of the Labour Party should have been wishing to stress all the time that everything the Russians do is right and everything we do is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "speech, which I tried to follow carefully, left us with the impression of any shining clarity on his side. I confess that I was a little distressed that the so-called \"shadow\" Foreign Secretary of the Labour Party should have been wishing to stress all the time that everything the Russians do is right and everything we do is wrong. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, but that was the general impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Anyhow, that is the general impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That is up to the American forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " that discussions are not now proceeding in the United Nations is due to our side and not to the Russians, after they and their allies failed to support proposals which were supported by the overwhelming majority of the United Nations. Nothing short of comprehensive disarmament, with full international inspection and control, can, we believe, really assure the permanent maintenance of world peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "he use of\"—nuclear weapons, even in self-defence. But this proposal—and I would like to draw attention to the fact—would not forbid the possession, or even the further production, of nuclear weapons. The most objectionable feature in all the Russian disarmament proposals up to date is undoubtedly that they make no satisfactory provision for ensuring that any agreement made is actually implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " system of control and banning their use without banning their production presupposes a mutual confidence in one another's good faith which clearly does not exist in the present international situation. Throughout the protracted negotiations the Soviet Government have made it abundantly clear that they dislike the whole idea of international inspection, whether it is on the ground or from the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the hon. Gentleman what Mr. Khrushchev said in a speech on 10th April. He said: We are in favour of control\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the hon. Gentleman what Mr. Khrushchev said in a speech on 10th April. He said: We are in favour of control\". [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Uxbridge has already interrupted me. I hope he will give me his attention for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Significantly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "effects on the human body must be considered from two standpoints—the possible harm to the health of those living at the time and possible genetic effects upon future generations. It is wholly inconceivable that external radiation from nuclear fall-out from weapon tests, as distinct from a nuclear war, could reach such an intensity as to affect significantly the health of the peoples of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "such an intensity as to affect significantly the health of the peoples of the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Significantly?\"] I will explain what I am saying; I am talking about external radiation. The possible risk to health could, therefore, arise only from the absorption of certain fission products, such as strontium 90, through eating, drinking or breathing. This aspect must be most carefully watched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s much less than the difference in natural radioactivity between London and Aberdeen. What is more, we should remember that radiation is not the only cause of genetic mutation or abnormality. For example, a group of Swedish scientists has just completed a study which shows that the unnatural heat caused by the wearing of trousers is likely to have a cumulatively serious effect upon the male organ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ven a good deal of thought to this subject, but I am not trying in the course of the debate to produce a blueprint or a charter for this plan. No one should underrate the practical difficulties of any plan for comprehensive disarmament in a single step, but it may be that these difficulties are not any more formidable than those which arise over disarmament by stages. In the end, it will all turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "—but in the end, unless we create an effective world authority to deal with this problem, we shall get nowhere. In the end, it will all turn on whether the will to disarm really exists. If the Russians desire disarmament, if the Russians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.78.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ss destruction mentioned in the Paper of 1957. I regard the Paper of 1956 as a very great retrogression from the Paper of 1954, because the Paper of 1954 set out a procedure which was workable and which would have led from one stage to another without difficulty. The Paper of 1956 was so complicated with so many checks and vetoes that it would have been utterly impossible to put it into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am interested to hear the \"Hear, hears\" coming from a certain number of hon. Members who have probably not read the Paper at all and do not know what was in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman has said that once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ly not read the Paper at all and do not know what was in it. [HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"] I am quite content to be judged by the document. The right hon. Member has just said that these objectives were dropped from the plan of 1956. I have said that in the third stage the prohibition of tests and of the use and manufacture of nuclear tests as well as the whole of conventional disarmament would take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "in trying to pick holes in the Government's policy, although 56 countries against 9 voted for partial disarmament proposals in the United Nations. We have never had anything from the Front Bench opposite more than tepid commendation. Suppose it had been the other way round. Supposing that we, as the Government, had refused to do that which 56 nations against 9 had voted. Suppose that had happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "In view of the record of the Government over recent years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-10", "file": "debates1958-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "583395d81683f85a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "In view of the record of the Government over recent years—[ Interruption. ]—and in the hope that the Government will face the challenge in the country, I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-10a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.196.5", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worsened.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the hon. Gentleman tabled the Question on 26th May. Since then the situation has radically changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE (MR. MICHAEL FOOT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "He did ring up the Embassy in Paris—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE (MR. MICHAEL FOOT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n made. Why did the Embassy take no steps following the telephone call and the personal call made at its office? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the baying that followed his original Answer merely demeaned his hon. Friends, because not one of us who served with Mr. Foot when he was an hon. Member will ever challenge either his honesty of purpose or his service to the cause of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Singers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": " stay at home and utilise it. The sewing machine is an evolving machine. There is change in its design and style from year to year. Believe me, the competition in this field today is becoming very intense, and it is not price competition. In my constituency, the best sewing machine in the world is made by the biggest manufacturers of sewing machines in the world, with the best service behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We might return to slates and pencils.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Slater", "preceding_text": "wn, where a complaint was made that the local authority was insisting that the children must buy their own exercise books after the first one has been used. I disagree with that completely, but if local authorities are faced with the necessity of saving on education, it may well be that if the burden increases, plus the other attack made recently upon them, considerable economies may be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Members on both sides will be extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for the extremely generous way in which he has met the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.350.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-11", "file": "debates1958-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "ab6540899cb619db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(MEANING OF \"BUSINESS.\")", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A mackerel.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "preceding_text": "a figure unlikely to exceed £400 per annum\"— that is, £400 out of an expenditure of £1,500— On the other hand, the Corporation would require to pay something over £25,000 per annum in purchase tax on taxable goods manufactured in the Printing and Stationery Department. If my informant is correct, what the Financial Secretary is doing, in Scots terminology, is spitting out a sprat to catch a whale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-11a.359.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-12", "file": "debates1958-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3036a05cef617706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "rom China and Japan have been drastically curtailed and kept down ever since 1951? Will he further confirm that his Department is seriously interested in seeking a real agreement on the imports of cloth from under-developed Commonwealth countries whose interests the Opposition so assiduously seek to promote when it does not affect them? Will he also confirm that his Department has a real interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.399.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-12", "file": "debates1958-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3036a05cef617706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Rent Act?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "luntary wage settlements had been made recently which had given him cause for a good deal of anxiety because they seemed bigger than any probable increase in productivity. My right hon. Friend would be entirely failing in his duty if he did not constantly put to the public that any general increase in wage levels in advance of a general increase in productivity is bound to result in higher prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-12", "file": "debates1958-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3036a05cef617706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The trade union movement would resent the Chancellor expressing a view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-12", "file": "debates1958-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3036a05cef617706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "ary to the general impression, port has not been a rich man's drink. Over 90 per cent. of the port which is drunk has always been part of the public-house trade. Although the consumption of sherry has suffered, as has port consumption, in the public-house trade, sherry has found a new market, but port has not. Port is pre-eminently an English wine, and one which I believe is drunk only in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-12", "file": "debates1958-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "3036a05cef617706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": " who have increased our Income Tax. Yet, as I said a moment ago, if this Parliament means anything in our democracy, we are speaking on behalf of the people and what we do is in their name and they should share the responsibility with us in so doing. I believe that the attitude of many people to taxation is not only a sign of weakness in our democratic system but is also a sign of moral decadence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-12a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-13", "file": "debates1958-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e237729ce1854e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-13a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "EAST-WEST TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not got one\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "and information. Any journalists who have been to Russia will tell one of the difficulties that they encounter, though they are skilled people and can probably get by. The Tass Agency is Government-controlled. It is not like the Press Association. During the Suez business, the leader of the Opposition here had as much right as had the Prime Minister to go on the B.B.C., but the Russian opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-13a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-16", "file": "debates1958-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "8adcce69dd6611b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-16a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPENCAST COAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ey have an interest in the land. Therefore, the compulsory powers of the Board are taking something from them compulsorily to which they could object, town planning entirely apart. That is the distinction. Town planning or no town planning, when a person has an interest in the land, if the Coal Board does not have compulsory powers he can say, \"I will not let you come within 50 yards of my house\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-16a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-17", "file": "debates1958-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "742f10c49689d282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I do not agree that the conditions under which these people are working are the worst in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-17", "file": "debates1958-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "742f10c49689d282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL DE GAULLE (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "—after his visit to President Eisenhower and to Her Majesty's Government in Canada, for cannot Britain and France together play a great part in bringing about a better balance of world affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.893.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-17", "file": "debates1958-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "742f10c49689d282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "She voted against that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "—in the early debates. I knew that the hon. Lady was present, but we were hoping that she would join with us in our plea to the Chancellor to extend still further the age relief provided for in this Clause, especially age exemption, and also for an increase in small income relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-17", "file": "debates1958-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "742f10c49689d282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has done the opposite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ike to hear from me. I think it is true to say that he probably wants to hear more from me than does my own Front Bench. I have no intention of taking up the time of the Committee, except to take this opportunity of saying that I am delighted that my right hon. Friend has at least made progress, though to a small extent, I agree, in trying to do something for those who live on small fixed incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-17", "file": "debates1958-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "742f10c49689d282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " words, I have had greater success than the hon. Member has had. All I can say is that if we compare what has happened in Clause 12 with what happened in the equivalent Clause when his right hon. Friend introduced the Budget, he did nothing at all. All that he did was to put up the indirect taxation, put up the direct taxation and do nothing at all for those who have suffered most under inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-17", "file": "debates1958-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "742f10c49689d282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": " lurching form of progress, which is what we have been having regarding investment policy and the economy graph over these past few years. I hope, therefore, that the Chancellor, now that at last he is beginning to take a timid and occasional little step every couple of months towards expansion, looking over his shoulder to see if the right hon. Member for Monmouth is there and whether he approves", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-17a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I much appreciate the support which I constantly receive from the right hon. Gentleman in his patriotic approach to all matters concerning national defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite right; I used the words \"Parliament has said\". I did so deliberately. Although it was only a Minister saying it, with the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when that happens and when it goes completely unchallenged, I think that it is right in terms of the average public outside to say that \"Parliament has said it\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1153.4", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": "I should like for a moment to echo the concluding thoughts of the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond). Some of us from time to time complain of all-night sittings, tedious debates and one thing and another. I can imagine that those who are at present the Government Whips and those who, in the future, hope to be Government Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Royal 'We'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "The hon. Baronet knows me well enough to know that I speak for myself. On the other hand, it sometimes happens that there are suggestions which come from my simple mind which find favour with my party. We shall have a good look at this plum when the time comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " more force behind it than in some other cases and that there is probably more right to subsequently enact retrospective legislation, I still think that the idea of giving a warning or controlling citizens by means of Ministerial warnings is utterly repugnant. I would not do it for the sake of gaining £4 million, £5 million or £10 million. I think that one must stand for principles in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " they have done or failed to do. It is perfectly clear that that is the character of the warning in this case. 6.30 p.m. First, is it necessary that there should be such Ministerial warning? If we are prepared to let not only this gang of ingenious people, but similar gangs, get away with it, Ministerial warnings become unnecessary. All one does is that when it becomes too frightful, one stops it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend listens, as it is his duty to do, to both what is said in this House and what is said by people outside on matters of public interest. No Chancellor could do anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "y stated the reasons that led me to change my mind in this matter of retrospection, and I have very little that I can usefully add now. The right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) asked me to what opinions I attached weight and what opinions were factors in leading to my change of opinion on this point. He referred to something like an organised rebellion. We do not have organised rebellions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "That is the figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor has given away what little bit of a case he had left by the remarks he made as he sat down. He has admitted what I thought he would admit—of the three cases covered, the three types of tax avoidance covered, there is doubt about one of the three. Why, then, does he not introduce retrospective legislation in respect of those issues where there was no doubt whatsoever?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1192.4", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "Because, as I have explained, on balance, in the light of the opinions I have taken into consideration, I am of opinion that it is far better in this case to give the benefit of the doubt to the subject and to have no retrospective element in it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lot of nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "utburst of honest indignation against the Leader of the Opposition, and that is a very long time. The result was that that very prosperous fishing industry was whittled away by a limited company, which could use lorries to convey the fish to Dublin and sell it there at high prices. I hope I am making myself clear and showing that what I am saying is relevant to this Clause. I am talking of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "last year. The liquidator says, \"Look here boys: buy us up, form your own little company. You take over the shares and put them in two names; hold a meeting in a little back room, amend the articles of association, and say, 'We are now in favour of making machine tools.' You can do all that for roughly half-a-crown.\" Fish and chips go out, with all their beautiful aroma, and machine tools come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "t them to possess any outstanding financial perspicacity. Whatever the result to the Daily Herald may be, the result to the Exchequer and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the loss of large sums of money in revenue. It ill behoves Socialists in this Committee to denigrate a system from which their principal party Press organ obtained such a magnificent advantage in its financial arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1223.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1230.4", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "r to Section 4 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1955, to which reference has been made earlier today. In this special context, however, I think it would be for the benefit of the Committee if I pointed out that Section 4 of that Act refers to persons carrying on a particular trade. That trade is specified in Section (4) as a trade which consists of or comprises dealings in shares or other investments\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "other matters my hon. and learned Friend and his right hon. Friend have not had time to give sufficient attention to the Amendment, I ask the leave of the Committee to withdraw it for the time being, in the expectation, which I am sure will be realised, that between now and Report my right hon. Friend will give further consideration to it. Accordingly, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1238.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-18", "file": "debates1958-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "40e1f32eca32998a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mitchison rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-18a.1257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "One cannot plan the supply of teachers as though we were living in wartime and dealing with scarce raw materials. If we are to achieve, as we hope we shall, classes no greater than 40 in primary schools and no greater than 30 in secondary schools by the second half of the next decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman is exaggerating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roland Robinson", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend the Prime Minister will be aware that it will be the hope of hon. Members on all sides of the House that this plan, which, obviously, has imagination and inspiration, will be accepted and adopted by Turks, Greeks and Cypriots alike and that it will succeed. Nevertheless, would my right hon. Friend care to say what would be the position if the new policy were not accepted, or failed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "Liberia and Costa Rica are prominent competitors, and I feel sure that the Committee will agree that while the Costa Ricans and Liberians are no doubt most estimable people they can hardly be said to have played a leading rôle in the development of world shipping in past decades. For instance, Liberia had 1,000 tons of shipping in 1948 and in 1951 the figure had gone up to 709 million tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HOn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "oing merchant fleet in the world and represents today one-fifth of the active world tonnage. In the House of Commons we do not often debate shipping matters in the widest sense. Perhaps I might be allowed to say that those who, like myself, had the honour to serve at sea during the last war will never forget the bravery and courage and devotion to duty of those men who served in the Merchant Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " will agree. I am not suggesting that relief of taxation is the remedy. Nor do I believe that the shipowners want that, but we have to take account of the fact that every maritime nation engaged in shipping and shipbuilding indulges in a policy of subsidisation. The United States spends millions of dollars, even billions of dollars; but we have had enough of statistics. Let us deal with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-06-19", "file": "debates1958-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5078c213f458a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE AND NATIONAL ASSISTANCE TRIBUNALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton).", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "of appeal to the tribunal. Coming back to the question of legal representation, one talks about an informal atmosphere. What is meant by that? I am sure that the hon. Member does not mean that a lot of extraneous matter, irrelevancy and hearsay should be brought in and that the time of the tribunal should be wasted by that means. One knows—the hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) referred to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-06-19a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-07", "file": "debates1958-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf12a6dea8b41b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "VOTE OFFICE (DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "an of Ways and Means. He repeated his apology to me and I have no doubt at all that he was sincere. In all the circumstances, I feel sure that there was here no deliberate attempt to evade the rules of the House. This error was due to inadvertence and a sense of haste, which is a frequent source of error. I therefore think that I have no need to take any further action with regard to the incident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-07", "file": "debates1958-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf12a6dea8b41b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "dge on the subject. The only person who has not given us an adequate report is the Minister, under the quinquennial review. When the Minister's predecessor presented the quinquennial report for which I had provided under the 1946 Act we found that it was a little flimsy, instead of a real review of the problems. What are we doing about it now? I must confess that I am the author of the 10s. widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-07", "file": "debates1958-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf12a6dea8b41b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am fully aware that the rules of order in this Committee are such that I am mot able to answer details about future legislation at great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-07", "file": "debates1958-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf12a6dea8b41b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is more than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "people. Secondly, each has failed to do all that we would like to do. Thirdly, each is looking for some way in which we can do better. The cost of living is now, perhaps, coming to a point at which it is likely to be stabilised. It may conceivably drop or rise a point or two, but it looks to me as if it is likely to be stabilised. That will be the first time that this has happened in twenty years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-07", "file": "debates1958-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf12a6dea8b41b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "ound. It may be that they do not meet the rising requirements of inflationary salaries and wages and that the employers have to put in lump sums to fortify and strengthen them, but an insurance company does not pay out more than is appropriate to what has been paid in. They are the only ones which are sound, and it is with those in mind that the hon. Gentleman intends, I think, to abolish the lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-07", "file": "debates1958-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bf12a6dea8b41b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ng liabilities, running heavily into deficit. Perhaps I may now refer to one or two other things that the hon. Member for Coventry, East said. I was sorry, I must say, that he used the name of a friend of many of us in this House, the late \"Geordie\" Buchanan, to cast a reflection on the officials of the old Ministry of Pensions. I do not believe that \"Geordie\" Buchanan would have agreed with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-07a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.208.4", "colnum": "208", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "ouse as I said it upstairs, and I want to use the same language in bath places. Having established that the voting on the conclusion was as I have said, and recommended that no action be taken on this occasion, I want to discuss some of the more serious issues which we have to decide. Hon. Members would be unwise if they underestimated the importance of the discussion on which we are now entering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "c scandal. I am bound to say that if I had written the letter myself I should not have employed that language if I had wanted to keep out of trouble. It was not necessary. My right hon. Friend could have put his case without employing language of that sort. Now we are asked to say, in the Report which the Lord Privy Seal has moved, that that is proper language for a Member of Parliament to employ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Not at all. Speeches in the House can be answered. They are not matters where the privacy of the post is used and where the person accused does not necessarily know what was said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Short of a nationalised industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t been greatly excited in reading that part of the evidence. The term \"proceeding in Parliament\" is the essence of what we are debating; this is the biggest issue in the debate. We have freedom of speech in this House, and it is very vital that we should retain it. I never imagined, before this case arose, that a proceeding in Parliament should extend to a letter which is sent to somebody outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that. I am perfectly sure that my hon. Friend, with all his resourcefulness, could find ways and means of letting the Minister know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " no less important, namely, that members of great and honourable professions of the Bar and solicitors will, if they accept service on behalf of a client, lay themselves open to criticism and, may be, condemnation and punishment by the House of Commons. That is a very serious thing and I do not wonder that the General Council of the Bar and the Council of the Law Society have protested against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I was perfectly prepared to go into the letter further with the Minister, but I shall not go into those details today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "er since qualified privilege would cover all cases. The issue is whether full Parliamentary Privilege should not cover the type of case I have mentioned. Obviously, if a letter of that sort is not protected by Parliamentary Privilege, the Member concerned must ask a Question about the complaint of his constituent or raise it on the Adjournment, all of which is very inconvenient and very difficult?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " be nine months ahead before he can raise an urgent matter? Of course, he cannot do any of these things. The only way in which he can effectively raise a matter affecting the nationalised industries is by a letter to the Minister, and if that letter is to be of any value it must be full, forthright and contain all the information which the Member has in his possession, however libellous it may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "on. To convict a man of a criminal offence which was not an offence at the time when he acted is something which no one in this country would support. To convict a man of contempt of Parliament, of a breach of Privilege, because later it is decided that Privilege should be extended to apply to the facts of his case is equally offensive and as bad an example of retroactive action as one could find.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "est doubt that the answer to the question whether the letter written by the right hon. Gentleman was a proceeding in Parliament is \"No.\" I suppose that all of us have on occasions spoken of proceedings in Parliament. Has any hon. or right hon. Member before this case ever thought, when he did so, that he was referring among other things to correspondence he or other Members had had with Ministers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "whether the letter written by the right hon. Gentleman was a proceeding in Parliament is \"No.\" I suppose that all of us have on occasions spoken of proceedings in Parliament. Has any hon. or right hon. Member before this case ever thought, when he did so, that he was referring among other things to correspondence he or other Members had had with Ministers? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I do not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And it is published.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The answer is simple. If a Member tables a Question and receives a Written Answer to it, that is clearly a proceeding in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Quite clearly, it is not a proceeding in Parliament. I am afraid I have no chance of convincing the hon. and learned Member. It does not come within the compass of that phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": " trains—but nobody would claim that these were proceedings in Parliament. Why, then, does it follow that a letter to a Minister about a case with which we are dealing must be a proceeding in Parliament? If that were so, surely every letter I write to a director of education or to a housing manager or to a doctor about a constituent is a proceeding in Parliament and can claim exceptional Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ordinary men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "eges. I think that it has exceeded its terms of reference. Today, we heard my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House saying that the Committee thought it desirable—I did not take down his words but they were to this effect—that Parliament's privileges should be extended in this way. He did not use the word \"extended\", but he implied it. The Committee was composed of able men and honourable men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "able men. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Ordinary men.\"] Not ordinary men, no; in this case, extraordinarily stupid men. In this case they have erred most grievously and sadly, and are leading this House into deep and dangerous waters. Finally, I ask this. If this Motion is carried, are hon. Members prepared to tell their constituents that up to now they have been hampered in their work for their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I ask again: are hon. Members prepared to go to their constituents and say that the only practical effect of their vote this evening will have been to express a wish that absolute privilege should be extended to letters that may be malicious or libellous, or actually are malicious and libellous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member asked a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What page?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "inst it. As has been said—this is, I hope, my only repetition—we should all be surprised if anything in the Votes and Proceedings in this House contained any of the matters, or anything referring to any of the matters, which we are discussing today. If hon. Members will look at the Report from the Committee of Privileges they will see what a tangle the Committee gets in over the word \"proceeding\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "e 3. I am quoting—I suppose I am in order— … Mr. Strauss was engaged in a 'proceeding in parliament'\"— when he wrote the letter; but they say that the London Electricity Board when it wrote the letters was not engaged in a proceeding. It wrote the letters threatening to commence a proceeding. It seems an odd distinction. Then, at the end of the page, we see \"no proceedings have been taken\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not sure about anything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "thing must be done, for persuading themselves, as the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne did, that this is a good thing which can therefore be done by Resolution. If hon. Members do it by Resolution just because it is a good thing, they will be consciously dishonest and making conscious doubts of the honesty of all their Parliamentary ancestors. I am not sure about this, but somebody should tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ch can therefore be done by Resolution. If hon. Members do it by Resolution just because it is a good thing, they will be consciously dishonest and making conscious doubts of the honesty of all their Parliamentary ancestors. I am not sure about this, but somebody should tell us—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not sure about anything.\"] I have asserted nothing as dead sure which I am not prepared to prove.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.290.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am afraid I cannot give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East (Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas) is an old friend of mine, but he must know that he cannot impose himself in that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. F. Deedes", "preceding_text": " be less inhibited—I will not say more careless—but the fact remains that both categories often get through long and distinguished Parliamentary careers without serious difficulty, and without a qualm. The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), who is not in the habit of mincing his words, has not encountered serious trouble on this score during his own long career in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "epartment of the nationalised board. In the latter case, the worst of the fears of my hon. Friend would be realised. I come now to the speech of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr. Foot). He said that we gained privilege resisting the influence of the Crown. If we take the Bill of Rights itself, it does not attack James II. What it says is that he was misled by evil counsellors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "the King can do no wrong because it is his evil Ministers who, when he was trying to do right, did something wrong in his name. We cannot get away from that position. I come now to what I understand some of my hon. Friends regard as their strong card in the case under discussion. I do not believe that we can discharge our duties to our constituents unless we have this right of access to Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "what I understand some of my hon. Friends regard as their strong card in the case under discussion. I do not believe that we can discharge our duties to our constituents unless we have this right of access to Ministers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"We have it.\"] As I understand it, the affront of my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall was that he had the presumption to write on the matter to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-08", "file": "debates1958-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b4c2937f4373b91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "That is a doctrine that I should reject out of hand. It is for the Member concerned to frame his letter so that it gives expression to his views, or to the views of the aggrieved person whom he is representing. It may be necessary in so doing—and that has been the inherent value of Privilege in this House—to say things in terms that would not be tolerated in any other communication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-08a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "ing to do with any orders from the Government. I make the point because I hope that this sort of behaviour will be stopped. There will, I think, be no further cause for complaint from the firm which I have mentioned and I hope that the butter trade will make it clear to its members that this is not the sort of thing that the counry likes to hear about. I am sorry if I have taken quite a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Do not say that. I have read the recent report, signed by the Leader of the Opposition, which condemns out of hand the incompetence, the inefficiency and the backwardness of the Co-operative management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "—and that all that he had actually done was to double prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Technique.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "preceding_text": "grandmothers went shopping. Many women now have to go out to work, and the time which they have for shopping is very much reduced. When my mother went shopping, it was a day out; she could spend her time making shopkeepers bring down umpteen things for her to see when she had already made up her mind that she would buy the article she was first shown. That was part of their shopping in those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. F. J. Erroll)", "preceding_text": "r safeguard, namely, freedom to choose between the products of rivals. If he does not like one article he can buy someone else's. Perhaps I might just mention a personal experience which I had the other day. I went to a garage to have my car cleaned. The car washer suggested a time which did not suit me, and so I suggested another time which I knew would be unavoidably inconvenient for the garage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ale amused the Committee considerably with his quotations from the packets of detergents. When one hears them read out on the Floor of the Committee they sound rather ludicrous, but I would remind the hon. Gentleman that after General Elections some housewives amuse themselves by reading out selections from the Election addresses of rival candidates, and there are sometimes exaggerated statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "In the new legislation which we are considering we could require all detergents, and not only clothes-washing detergents but washing and scouring powders with them, to be sold by weight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.464.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is all quote.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "preceding_text": "ly presented. It does not seem to be very businesslike to make a formal offer for shares in anticipation of future legislation. In looking over the memorandum issued by the Manchester City Council concerning this matter, paragraph 17, the Council says quite clearly—and I quote—that it considers that public interest would be best served by the acquisition of the Cemetery under Parliamentary powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.475.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Barlow", "preceding_text": "This slipshod manner of handling the business is further illustrated by the placing of a memorandum in the Corporation's defence in the Vote Office last week in an irregular way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A criminal offence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "nt to satisfy the House and all who have read the Report that the City Council and the Town Clerk have acted with complete propriety. This was issued to all hon. Members immediately after the Attorney-General's reply, to a written Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mrs. Hill), that an offence had been committed under Section 13 of the Act, a certain kind of offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.486.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": " not afford to put it right. What will come next? I am beginning to feel a little anxious. This is the next paragraph: It is difficult to see how the cemetery company with its limited resources can hope to make any substantial improvement in these conditions and there seems a real danger of the cemetery becoming a public scandal as has happened with one or two commercial cemeteries in other towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sell the stock in trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "We are all agreed on that. What is the shareholders' reaction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "hen he read that letter that he would have got rid of the shares as quickly as he possibly could on receipt of it. But suppose the shareholder, as is said in the North, \"turns a bit awkward\", and he decides, \"I do not think I will sell these shares after all\". He knows that he is faced with another and even greater danger. Manchester may decide to acquire the property by compulsory purchase order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.489.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.491.5", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Mr. Speaker has already ruled earlier that anything outside the terms of the Ardwick Cemetery are absolutely unrelated to the matters of debate and must not be introduced. The hon. Member is going outside the realms of the Ardwick Cemetery, for what reason I do not know, but he seems clearly out of order. I think that the learned Clerks at the Table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.492.6", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Middleton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Middleton and Prestwich (Sir J. Barlow) referred in his speech to the purchase of land by the Manchester Corporation from Rochdale", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.492.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.492.8", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": " we were acting in the best interests of everybody, including the shareholders. As a Corporation, however, we realise that in such matters our procedure must be scrupulously correct and our communications must observe the highest standard of clarity and integrity. We apologise and we are only too anxious to put matters right in any way we can. We are truly sorry.\" That is the language of humility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.492.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "about a criminal offence any more than one of his hon. Friends can complain when I suggest that if he left his car in the wrong place he would be committing a criminal offence; but I wish to urge upon him that the substance of complaint, even if it be true, against the Town Clerk in sending out his circular is far more technical, far less grave and of far less legal concern than a parking offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "th the view based upon the full knowledge which became available to the Attorney-General. If in fact the Corporation sent out a circular, acting with full professional advice, the Attorney-General would make no special allowance for it. If they really sent out a one-sided circular it is a little difficult to see how the Attorney-General came to the conclusion that there was no dishonesty involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I do not like to interrupt my hon. Friend—I think it is a bad habit to interrupt people in the middle of their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "o those in which you spoke on behalf of the Board of Trade. The whole matter has been thoroughly ventilated. At this stage I refer to the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford as well as to the hon. Member for Middleton and Prestwich, both of whom are experienced businessmen and understand the whole implication of the situation. I address the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford. I know that you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "he whole matter has been thoroughly ventilated. At this stage I refer to the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford as well as to the hon. Member for Middleton and Prestwich, both of whom are experienced businessmen and understand the whole implication of the situation. I address the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford. I know that you—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He.\"]—he will assist Manchester and that you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-09", "file": "debates1958-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "4304bf941bbd6b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "to go forward. All of us will be very glad when the Bill is passed, so that the improvements which have been formulated at considerable expense and trouble may be approved. Manchester can then continue to serve not only the citizens of Manchester, but those of Knutsford and of Middleton and Prestwich, too, because most of the latter come into Manchester to earn their livings. I hope that you will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-09a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-10", "file": "debates1958-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c88a8b524de956fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "entleman nevertheless bear in mind that, as was shown in the evidence before the Committee of Privileges, it has been the custom for the Table to refuse Questions on day-to-day matters relating to the nationalised industries and to propose to hon. Members that they should write to the chairman of the board or the Minister concerned? The decision of the House clearly makes that situation untenable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-10", "file": "debates1958-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c88a8b524de956fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.591.6", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "tland in the years ahead: Registrations of building trade apprentices in Scotland dropped by 13·2 per cent. in 1957 compared with 1956. In England and Wales the fall was only 1·9 per cent. These figures certainly give us food for thought; but what effect are they having on the Government? The article went on to say some very nasty things about the Government, which I shall leave out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.591.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-10", "file": "debates1958-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c88a8b524de956fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. George", "preceding_text": "ave gone well on the way to getting it. We decided to have steady prices, and we are well the way to achieving them. If the hon. Member and the hon. Lady do not like that, I tell them that the country likes it. The News Chronicle Gallup poll yesterday—and that newspaper is not notoriously Unionist—forecast that the Conservatives would be returned to power if there were a General Election tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-10", "file": "debates1958-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c88a8b524de956fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "ific industries, which means new scientists, technologists and technicians. We have made arrangements for that to be done, and we hope that in the future we shall show an increasing output, but Scotland ought to have skilled people for the new age which we are entering. I refer to apprentices. I am informed that the reason we are not training apprentices is connected with trade union restrictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-10", "file": "debates1958-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c88a8b524de956fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "No, because I have to catch a plane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-10", "file": "debates1958-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c88a8b524de956fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John Maclay)", "preceding_text": "ed planned State. There are certain controls which everyone today accepts as being necessary in the highly complex world in which we live. It may be a matter for considerable argument and discussion in the years to come to what extent the party opposite believes in a system of controls that is much tighter than those which we recognise are necessary—financial controls as against physical controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-10a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.801.6", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "d solve his problems. If he would like to sit here I could sit on the bench opposite and solve them. Surely it must be clear to him that there is only one way of reducing the number ear, nose and throat cases—in this case, it means a large number of small children with big tonsils waiting for months, sometimes years, to be attended to—and that is to introduce more people who can solve the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.801.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "May I draw the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for the regional hospital board to settle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "I notice that the Parliamentary Secretary drew at least a small cheer from the benches opposite when he referred to the £30 million deficit last year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Part of the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "lusive argument for all eternity, but people ask the Board to do without opencast coal, which makes a £9 million profit that goes into the same \"kitty\" as that out of which wages are paid. I will not touch the wages question. It is a dangerous and inappropriate subject, but the Coal Board is being asked to find more and if it is asked to give up its cheapest source of profit and its cheapest coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "It is the same coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three hundred million tons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": " I am merely making the point that investment by itself does not necessarily increase either productivity or production. In \"Investing in Coal\" among the basic figures for 1960 was given the expected output per man year which was 319 tons. In fact, in the main part of the period we are considering, the last few years up to last year, it was falling to under 300 million tons a year and was falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend nods assent. I was closely associated with him on that occasion, when he voted with me against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Aubrey Jones). In c. 1437 he said. If the annual borrowing\"— that is, of the National Coal Board— were to exceed £75 million it would be permissible only by Order debatable in the House. In no other nationalised undertaking does any such provision exist,\" [OFFICIAL REPORT. 10th May, 1956; Vol. 552, c. 1437 and 1452.] Governments often forget their promises very easily, even a Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We imported Polish coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for Easington represented a coal mining constituency in the inter-war years. He remembers depression. He will also be able to tell me, roughly, what were the stocks of coal on the surface in those days. They were enormous compared with the quantity which we are saying is an embarrassment today. In 1926, we went through several months of almost total stoppage in the coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-14", "file": "debates1958-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fde415d81c19f097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "SCOTLAND (HYDRO-ELECTRIC BOARD SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e Highlands. But use should be made of that concentration of unemployed male labour in Dundee first rather than import large quantities of labour from the south of Ireland to be put in huts a couple of hundred miles away to the north. I am not alone in holding these views. It is an extraordinary thing that the Chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board holds the same views. He said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-14a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "If additional help was required in the Lebanon—all the evidence we had was to the effect that the situation was becoming easier rather than worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Without wishing in any way to interfere with questions which right hon. and hon. Gentlemen will no doubt wish to put to the Foreign Secretary, and in view of his own admission of the gravity of the situation, would he not agree that the House of Commons should have an opportunity of debating this matter properly at the earliest opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "row there might be some desire to have it tonight, because it is a matter of the utmost urgency. The day after tomorrow will be too late, especially in view of the fact that no assurance has been given that British troops will not be moved into action either in Iraq, the Lebanon or Jordan before the House has had an opportunity of debating the matter. We really do insist that the debate should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That kind of hypothetical question is much better dealt with in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1017.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider the question of publication, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman should remember that the United Nations' observers were expressing opinions about matters which they had not observed because they were not in position at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Canada, as a member of the Security Council, can make her position clear in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Do we understand from what the Foreign Secretary has said that he has given a definite assurance that British troops will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1020.8", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "IRAQ AND THE LEBANON", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the fact that it is impossible to get clarification on this vital point, I beg to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, the refusal of Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1020.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1066.6", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "d income counterbalances the increase in the form in which it is drafted. Let me give a final simple example. An earned income of £180 would get the benefit of what is proposed in the Clause. The limit of relief would be the tax on that £180. If, on the other hand, we add to it £100 of unearned income we then come back to the figure of £100. I hope I have made my meaning clear to all hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1066.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "All right. I have already said, and so have many others, that we do not accept that the Chancellor last year ever understood the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-15", "file": "debates1958-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9b21944628ed1e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1144.5", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "f these cases where services are rendered or literature is issued by the charitable body is that the charity may be incurring expenditure which inures to the benefit of the subscriber and, in that sense, what the charity receives from the subscriber is not pure income profit. Those are my reasons for saying that the Clause will have no effect, and then we get on to the main issue of public policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-15a.1144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1220.3", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "preceding_text": " to criminal activities. It was felt that the inefficient book-keeping called for no disciplinary action, but there has been a change of command at the hospital. Sergeant Gribbin was perfectly correct and indeed carrying out his duty in bringing the accounting errors to light. He has not been made to suffer for doing so. Sergeant Gribbin's reduction in rank arose from an entirely different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He lost it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "s not the hon. Gentleman aware that this case causes very great concern and anxiety? It is not in issue between us, because the Under-Secretary has agreed that Sergeant Gribbin was performing a public service in exposing deficiencies in these accounts. Is it not a most unfortunate coincidence, to say the least of it, that at the same time he has lost rank, or was threatened with the loss of rank,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ue between us, because the Under-Secretary has agreed that Sergeant Gribbin was performing a public service in exposing deficiencies in these accounts. Is it not a most unfortunate coincidence, to say the least of it, that at the same time he has lost rank, or was threatened with the loss of rank,—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He lost it.\"]—he lost it at one time, but I understand that he has been reinstated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "reatened with the loss of rank,—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He lost it.\"]—he lost it at one time, but I understand that he has been reinstated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I understand that that is not so. I understand that he has definitely lost rank and has had this posting away. Will the Under-Secretary agree that the very least that could be done would be to hold an inquiry into this matter, because it seems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1222.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1233.3", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "We have undertaken a small survey, and it appears that airmen are re-enlisting for three main reasons. Firstly, there are the comradeship and the interest of the Service. Secondly, there are the savings in personal and family expenditure. Until people live in civil life they often do not realise how much things cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1238.10", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Can anything be done to persuade the Minister of Transport to speak up? It has been very difficult to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1238.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "this question of indirect aggression. It has been discussed more than once at the United Nations. A resolution was passed in December, 1949, calling upon States to refrain from any threats or acts, direct or indirect, aimed at impairing the freedom, independence or integrity of any State, or at fomenting civil strife and subverting the will of the people in any State. There was another resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Israel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t me concede that, because of our alliances with the Governments concerned—as the opponents of social revolution. I say categorically that I do not see that we can reach any ultimate solution in the Middle East unless, somehow or other, we are prepared to come to terms with the Pan-Arab movement. I know that it is easy to say that and that it is much more difficult to say exactly how we can do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "a position in which we cannot morally oppose an intervention in any particular country, within the Soviet empire by an action we may take elsewhere in future. As I have not myself taken quite the same ideological and idealistic attitude about Soviet Russia's intervention in Hungary as have right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, I can reserve my position in another part of the world in good faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ance is there of maintaining the oil supplies if we allow the Bagdad mob to let the desert rule again over the source of production? It must be the duty of any Government in this country, of whatever political persuasion, to defend the standard of living of our people. That defence, in the last resort, means resolutely seizing the sources of that Standard of living from those who might despoil it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1279.5", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor did the King.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " by either Front Bench to carry that principle into effect has my wholehearted support. I think that the Government are open to very grave criticism indeed. First, their Intelligence Service did not warn them of what was likely to happen. It seems to me incredible, in view of the amount of money that is spent on the Intelligence Service, that we knew absolutely nothing of what was going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are of major relevance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It is a little difficult to make a speech when one is interrupted with totally irrelevant questions, which I am, however, willing to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hussein.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Member give one instance of one dictator whom we have set up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1320.6", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What dictators?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "I have answered the question. I said that the hon. Member should look round the Middle East and round other parts of the world as well. However, that is not important. What is important is that dictators whom we like and whom we maintain in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jordan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "What is perfectly clear is that Syria and Egypt have been openly hostile to Israel from the first and have never stopped sending infiltrators across the Israeli Border. Iraq has not been doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " carefully prepared beforehand until the moment arrived to give their disembarkation in Beirut some kind of juridical justification. Having got there, what do we do? My right hon. Friend this afternoon made a statement to which I think the Government should pay very close attention. We have decided, many of us with very great reluctance, not to divide the House against the Government this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Afraid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "cation. Having got there, what do we do? My right hon. Friend this afternoon made a statement to which I think the Government should pay very close attention. We have decided, many of us with very great reluctance, not to divide the House against the Government this evening. [ Laughter. ] I want hon. and right hon. Members opposite to weigh this situation very seriously indeed. We are afraid here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is more. Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ces supported from outside, to ask for help. I think that this is commonly recognised. In the case of the Lebanon, the Manchester Guardian says this today: To describe the landing of American Marines in Lebanon as an act of aggression has no justification in international law; they came in response to an appeal by the constitutional head of a sovereign state who had a perfect right to invite them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "e should be no intervention. How could they, when they ranged over only a few kilometres? My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary made it quite clear, and it cannot be seriously disputed, that there has been subversion and foreign intervention organised from outside on a large scale. This is supported by evidence in our possession for which I must ask the House to take my assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "l tried to contribute without too much party feeling on this problem. In any event, what we have to consider today, the immediate question before the House, is this: was the United States Government justified in the action which it has taken to support the Lebanon when it was threatened with disruption caused by external aggression and subversion? Have we been right to associate ourselves with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ling on this problem. In any event, what we have to consider today, the immediate question before the House, is this: was the United States Government justified in the action which it has taken to support the Lebanon when it was threatened with disruption caused by external aggression and subversion? Have we been right to associate ourselves with it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and to give moral support?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tuation. I think that there is a general understanding of the difficulties ahead of us. I think that there is a general wish that if it is possible we should not add to the problems of the nation by a divided Parliament. I say once more that we can make two claims. First, I think that we have the sympathy and the understanding, as I said, even of Members who do not altogether approve our decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1370.2", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman know?\"] I have sensed it, and if I wish to pay a compliment I will do so; it will do hon. Members no injury, since it is only collective. Secondly, both the motives of the Government of the United States in taking the action which it has done, and the decision of Her Majesty's Government in giving it full support, are understood and will be supported by the nation as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-16", "file": "debates1958-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d86ebed3c1d2e658", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-16a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member appreciates that prisoners' letters, even to Members of Parliament, have to be censored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1432.5", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "There are two reasons. One is that they may contain complaints on prison treatment not previously ventilated through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1432.5", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "There are two reasons. One is that they may contain complaints on prison treatment not previously ventilated through the usual channels. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is right that they should be so ventilated in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about alternative services?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " some of the difficulties, but, at the same time, I have made it plain to the consultative committees that it is not their job to maintain completely uneconomic services merely because the public need may show some justification for them. The yardstick must be: can the services one day be made to pay? If the firm answer is that it cannot, then that is not a service which should be allowed to stay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": " debate has not yet been put. Will the Opposition divide the House this evening? We have been talking, so far, in the dark, but one can only presume, from the criticisms which have been made and from the direction which has come so often from behind to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, that there will be a Division tonight. I am ready for a contradiction if there is not to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They put Glubb out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Why does the hon. Member say \"friendly\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Lebanon to carry on the struggle themselves. After all, the Americans allowed us to carry on the struggle in the past. I am not suggesting that we should pay them out in their own coin. Nevertheless, there is a substantial reason why we should not rely upon the United States in a matter of this sort. Reliance upon the United States in conjunction with the United Nations is a different proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "in the Lebanon and tomorrow another revolution would start in Jordan. I am bound to say that was very good of them. Here is a revolution started from outside surreptitiously, organised clandestinely and then announced over the radio, and having been given notice that it was going to happen, King Hussein is such a popular monarch that he could not deal with it. This is really a grotesque situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Outside intervention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "ly a grotesque situation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] This is exactly what the Prime Minister said this afternoon. What are we to conclude from that? We are to conclude that the King of Jordan is in such a weak position that, although he is told beforehand that there is going to be an uprising in his country, nevertheless his own forces are inadequate to deal with it. That is the conclusion we reach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "to conceive that the Union is broken and that Jordon is a separate State? If the plot is hatched from Bagdad and it is still a Union, this is a civil war, and if it is a civil war, we have no right to intervene. If, on the other hand, Jordan is a detached State, then the King of Jordan is committing the very offence of which the Prime Minister has accused others, by inciting an uprising in Bagdad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.1", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.4", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "eneral tendency in the House and the country was to condemn him, because many people, perhaps understandably, regarded his action as something of a slight to this country, to an old friend, General Glubb, and to Her Majesty's Government. On that occasion, I made a few observations from which I should like tonight to repeat a short quotation, because it is relevant to the debate that we have today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.4", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ideal solution in these circumstances. Are we really to suppose that the Cabinet sat for the three hours it did last night without discovering that these are difficult things to decide? I am absolutely convinced that there are times when one has to do something which may even seem to be unwise rather than be so ashamed of oneself in one's heart that one cannot even face oneself in a looking glass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.4", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "hat these are difficult things to decide? I am absolutely convinced that there are times when one has to do something which may even seem to be unwise rather than be so ashamed of oneself in one's heart that one cannot even face oneself in a looking glass. [ Interruption. ] We all shave in the morning, do we not? I do not wish to delay the House but, before I sit down, there is this I wish to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-17", "file": "debates1958-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bdd93fe9be718d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1560.2", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1958–59", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said, I think, that we both sincerely have the same purpose. That was repeated in the very generous terms used by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell), which I very much appreciated, about myself. He and I have now been a very long time in the House together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-17a.1560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-18", "file": "debates1958-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "3731e7467ba36dbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-18a.1584.3", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "lemen opposite in dividing on Budget day, that the part of the Bill dealing with Profits Tax would become the battlefield for a major engagement between the two sides of the House. In fact, it turned out to be a rather mild skirmish. I do not know whether that was because of the persuasiveness of speeches from this Bench, or whether it was because right hon. Gentlemen opposite had second thoughts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-18a.1584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-18", "file": "debates1958-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "3731e7467ba36dbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-18a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " side of the picture, I remember one Chancellor after another has talked about the need for investment and bringing in, as the present Chancellor is, initial allowances, making concessions to shipping about investment allowances and the rest of it. How do we reconcile that with this change in the incidence of the Profits Tax? I will sum up—and the House will be relieved that I have nearly finished", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-18a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-18", "file": "debates1958-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "3731e7467ba36dbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-18a.1636.2", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "ought it much better to put that on record in view of the fact that some slight misunderstanding arose at an earlier stage. I hope that the House will acquit me of discourtesy if I have not dealt with all the points that were raised. I will certainly consider them, and so will my right hon. Friend, in the course of the next year. The Budget was assessed by public opinion to be fiscally a fair one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-18a.1636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-21", "file": "debates1958-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d78fdabf540490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-21a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TRADE AND ECONOMIC AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Advertisement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the people of the Colonial Territories, but would help us to maintain a high level of employment. I come to certain proposals that we shall put forward to the Government. There was published this weekend an excellent document entitled \"Plan for Progress\". It will repay hon. Members who give it very considerable study. It costs only 1s. and contains Labour's policy for Britain's economic expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-21a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-21", "file": "debates1958-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d78fdabf540490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-21a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TRADE AND ECONOMIC AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was putting his interest in European affairs in front of his interest in the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-21a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-21", "file": "debates1958-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "d78fdabf540490fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-21a.46.5", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TRADE AND ECONOMIC AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "inery that we should like to see is that which is proposed in this document. We would make Commonwealth members themselves responsible for determining the allocations of capital and raw materials, in so far as we can. I am sure that it could be of nothing but gain both to Britain as a whole and to the Commonwealth generally if the Bank of England were to lose some of its sovereignty in this field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-21a.46.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman feel that he is doing a very mean thing to people who have their money invested in the Government by not giving them some kind of return? He is taking £11 million out of the pockets of people who, in many instances, cannot afford it, and does he realise that, in addition, the disastrous economic policy of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware—I know that he is—that the application list in Birmingham is now reaching 70,000 and that by his action in not allowing lower interest rates for the Public Works Loan Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "re distinguished African leaders; that one of them is a professing Christian who built a Christian church at his own expense on the location; that one of them is over 90 years of age? What is the good of him talking about the Declaration of Human Rights at Strasbourg and his predecessor saying it is going to be applied to the Colonial Territories if we have these crimes on our conscience and this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.221.7", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Will the Colonial Secretary make it clear that it is the view of everyone in this country that the only hopeful basis for this island is that Greeks and Turks should stop shooting at each other and at British soldiers? Will not he take up the initiative of Archbishop Makarios, who has himself called for a cessation of violence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.221.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.227.8", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "osals under which assistance could be given by the United Nations to the Government of Jordan to ensure the preservation of Jordan's territorial integrity and political independence. I had a consultation with the Secretary-General myself in New York, on Sunday. I have nothing to report about matters in the Persian Gulf. There is no foundation at all for certain rumours which I believe are current.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.227.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "aty of 1930, were ended and he guarded and guided the independence of Iraq. He was responsible for the policy of spending the oil revenues so wisely. He laid the foundations of what we still hope will be a stable and prosperous Iraq. This country has lost three trusted friends, and I wish to put on record our profound sense of loss and our deep regret for the manner in which they met their deaths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.227.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ll keep the matters with which we are immediately concerned, the situation in Lebanon and Jordan, within the United Nations framework because, whatever may be said about a four-Power or five-Power approach, Middle Eastern settlements must be secured within the framework of the United Nations. I believe that it is quite unrealistic to think that we could get a settlement outside the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Without loss of face.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "is proposal will seek to start the process of disengagement in the Middle East by preserving the neutrality and autonomy of the Lebanon. I am bound to say that I have very great misgivings about Jordan. Of course, it is an impeccable decision to invite the United Nations in now to enable us to get out. The great problem for us is: having got in, how to get out and how to get out with loss of face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord has completely misconceived what the Foreign Secretary said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ng from the remarks of the hon. and gallant Member for Wells (Lieut.-Commander Maydon), these adventures in Lebanon and Jordan are part of the necessary preparation. However, we welcome the Summit Conference because we believe that it is essential that Mr. Khrushchev should be answered in the affirmative. What could the Government do? The leading organ of the Government in Scotland, The Scotsman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "tions of the Arab people. In particular, we must show a general understanding of their attitude towards the oil itself. After all, it is their oil and, although we pay a good price for it, there must be great psychological difficulties arising from the fact that this rich natural resource is being sucked away from the countries of its origin largely to support the way of life of the Western world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including his own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": " Nations, they are in fact putting the whole of their policy of the last few days into reverse. I noticed that the Foreign Secretary's speech this afternoon was greeted with uproarious cheers from this side of the Committee and with very painful silence on the benches opposite. I am not surprised about that because what the Foreign Secretary was doing was to eat a lot of words of his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The British Channel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "On the other hand, there is the pan-Arab movement, which, fed by Cairo Radio propaganda, stirs up a form of xenophobia which is common to all countries. We have it even in this country—a hatred of all strangers, such as the anti-American attitude which we sometimes hear, or even the gloriously insular British attitude that so long as we are this side of the British Channel everything is all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "n many ways, but, at least, we have come to recognise what she does for what it really is. The trouble has always been that the free world has not spoken with a united voice. The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale said last week that we would not \"go it\" with the Americans. There was an extraordinary vote the other night against British troops in Jordan, but supporting American troops in the Lebanon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "se the statesmanlike, very moderate and, if I may say so, deeply understanding speech made on behalf of the Labour Party by my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan). I am greatly gratified that none of the divisions and clashes which marked the occasion of the Suez incident have occurred on this occasion. I think there is a great deal of unity of opinion and I think that masterly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "such action against the grinding poverty of the Middle East as we all recognise to be long overdue. We must do these things. But I believe that, above all else, we must let the Arabs see that we mean to treat them as we treat other nations of the world, that the Middle East is henceforward not to be a sphere of British interest, or of Russian interest, but a sphere where Arab influence is supreme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "No doubt Mr. Khrushchev will also have noted what the right hon. Gentleman said about traditional American hospitality. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman and his party speak with great knowledge of arranging stimulating entertainment for Soviet leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-22", "file": "debates1958-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "35d1ef20182b39e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": " the United Nations is seized of these matters and has further opportunities to deal with them. We have been chided by the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale and other Opposition Members about what has been called our \"conversion\" to a belief in the United Nations. I reply straight away that there is no question of a conversion, because we have always supported proceedings through the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-22a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a Private Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " it deliberately, and he was doing it because he wanted to prevent discussion. He had already indicated his desire to prevent discussion by timetabling the previous proceedings in Committee on the Bill. If any hon. Gentleman on the opposite side desires to contradict me he has ample opportunity. There are still hours ahead of us. We have the whole of the rest of the day and the whole of the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guillotine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "t is that we take so long in doing things that people lose interest. I am all for a full and detailed debate, as far as is reasonable and consistent with the maintenance of the democratic system. It is very well known that some democracies have gone down because they have not stopped talking. It cannot be claimed that in my time as Secretary of State I have ever unreasonably suppressed discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "s on discussions when they have gone on for a very long time, but that is all a matter for argument and perhaps is not relevant to this discussion. I agree, however, that it was quite right to raise this issue. I do not think that it is an entirely satisfactory procedure, provided that another is available to do the things which we want done. The procedure followed by the working party was normal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ise this issue. I do not think that it is an entirely satisfactory procedure, provided that another is available to do the things which we want done. The procedure followed by the working party was normal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who were they?\"] It is not normal to give the names of a working party. Some of the members were nominated by the local authority associations and some represented my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The answer is, \"Yes\". It depends on whom one means by \"local authorities\". It is clear that each local authority was not consulted by the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "y come to another conclusion, that the case put forward by the hon. Gentleman opposite is a very solid one which they must support. They have been prodded from the rear, and the prodding has been done by those who primarily have a vested interest in the industry. I should like to hear the hon. Member for North Angus and Mearns or any other hon. Member deny the facts that I have stated. They stink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I think that that is fairly implied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is perfectly clear that the Corporation sought this adjacent cemetery for the purpose of a school playing field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.508.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-23", "file": "debates1958-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "edfb3e2eeb7083a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has sat down.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. and gallant Friend sits down, may I ask one question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-23a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE LEBANON AND JORDAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "As it is now quite clear that the great majority of the people of Lebanon do not support President Chamoun and the great majority of people of Jordan do not support King Hussein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.929.10", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KUWAIT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. and gallant Gentleman give the House an undertaking that Her Majesty's Government will not oppose the introduction of democracy into this State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.929.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.929.10", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KUWAIT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Hungary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. and gallant Gentleman give the House an undertaking that Her Majesty's Government will not oppose the introduction of democracy into this State—[ Interruption. ]—and in Russia and in all territories, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.929.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "he Government. Next came the appointment, in 1936, of a Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence—Sir Thomas Inskip. His functions were purely advisory; he had almost no staff. I remember him emphasising that at this time he had no more than two typists, and I do not think that if he were alive he would consider it unfair for me to say that he made virtually no impact on military policy or action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.955.5", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "le for formulating the policy which determines the spending of about one-third of the whole of the national Budget. I would say to the House that he needs all his time and energy to discharge that task. It is, therefore, quite essential that he should remain free from the time-absorbing preoccupations of Departmental administration. As compared with the directive of January, 1957, the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.955.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Of course, the right hon. Gentleman does not imagine that. I was saying that this is the first time that a formal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Of course, the right hon. Gentleman does not imagine that. I was saying that this is the first time that a formal—[ Interruption. ] Of course he has been there all the time. If the right hon. Gentleman will think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Of course, the right hon. Gentleman does not imagine that. I was saying that this is the first time that a formal—[ Interruption. ] Of course he has been there all the time. If the right hon. Gentleman will think—[ Interruption. ] I would like to make it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "l the time. If the right hon. Gentleman will think—[ Interruption. ] I would like to make it clear—[ Interruption. ] If the two right hon. Members for Belper and Dundee, West (Mr. Strachey) would like to settle their differences later, I can continue. I am glad that there is now agreement between the right hon. Member for Belper and the rest of the Opposition Front Bench on the subject of defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "fence in the formulation of policy. The Board could not, of course, be given powers of decision without encroaching upon the powers of decision given to the Minister of Defence and to the Service Ministers in their respective spheres. Nevertheless, the Board will, I am sure, have a most important and valuable part to play as a forum for the discussion of military policy and inter-Service problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the most remarkable combined assaults by the Tory Party on a serving officer who could not answer back. There has been a weight of attack upon one of the Chiefs of Staff. I do not know anything about the rights and wrongs of it, I do not know the man or of his contribution, but one Chief of Staff has been singled out during the last months, in the newspapers, among Tory speakers, among Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "not know anything about the rights and wrongs of it, I do not know the man or of his contribution, but one Chief of Staff has been singled out during the last months, in the newspapers, among Tory speakers, among Ministers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Yes. In my view, it has been the second keynote, and it really is no use hon. Members opposite pretending that they do not know that this has been going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " among Tory speakers, among Ministers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Yes. In my view, it has been the second keynote, and it really is no use hon. Members opposite pretending that they do not know that this has been going on. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If anyone pretends that there has not been an attack upon the Chief of the Naval Staff, upon the First Sea Lord, then he is pretending to be blind, dumb and deaf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ain that in the long run, the Army cannot recruit an Army of 220,000 men. The right hon. Member for Carshalton was very brave this afternoon and dealt with figures with all the authority of an ex-Minister of Defence, figures which were well known to many of us, but which previously lacked the authority of Ministerial backing. The Minister of Defence ought to resign because he has cooked the books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "That means conscription. That policy has been advocated today and has emanated from the Government benches and from a very prominent source, the right hon. Member for Carshalton, who has argued that conscription must be retained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "e to be soldiers, sailors and airmen and who, when they were not serving on the defence staff, could go back to Commands and theatres on loan to their particular Service. Nor is it a particularly revolutionary theory. They remain for their careers and prospects soldiers, sailors and airmen responsible to the War Office, the Admiralty and the Air Ministry. This would make a good deal of difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Run away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will agree that it is also Labour Party policy to reverse the foreign policy of the present Government. That is just the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "We have said this again and again—we said it in the last debate—that the principle of self-determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-28", "file": "debates1958-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "a6c32fc347fb5f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREY SEALS, FARNE ISLANDS (PROTECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "me time as the results of salmon fishing up the Tweed and other rivers has been extraordinarily successful. Again one is not absolutely certain whether the action proposed by the Government will lead to any desirable result even if one agrees about the need to protect the salmon fishermen on the coast. The argument is that these fishermen are losing their nets or having them very severely damaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-28a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "? Is it a fact that a Turkish police sergeant carrying a primed bomb in his car, a case which carries the death penalty under the Emergency Regulations, was granted bail, jumped his bail and escaped to Turkey? Is this the only case of its kind? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that there is a widespread belief in Cyprus that the Emergency Regulations are not being operated with scrupulous impartiality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1136.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that if there are to be any extensions of the B.B.C. or other television services, there would be much resentment if the television cameras were to be turned only on the small clique that seems so far to have been under the influence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1149.4", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (TELEVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Yates", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that if there are to be any extensions of the B.B.C. or other television services, there would be much resentment if the television cameras were to be turned only on the small clique that seems so far to have been under the influence? [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1150.7", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "SUMMIT CONFERENCE (MR. KHRUSHCHEV'S LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am wondering whether, in the exceptional circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1150.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"8 ft. 6 ins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "I will make myself better informed. My recollection is that for most vehicles the dimensions are 8 ft. in width as the standard width.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " to have mopeds and very light motor cycles of that kind on the motorway. It is right to expect that a good number of vehicles will have to be excluded if full use is to be made of the motorways. With regard to the two-wheeled trailers, my impression is that those vehicles are very often caravans pulled by rather small private cars which are not very suitable types for towing that type of vehicle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Cole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Cole", "preceding_text": "e Preston bypass over the twelve months and will have gained considerable experience of some of the difficulties which nobody else will have had the same opportunity to gain. I am sure that my right hon. Friend will take that point into consideration. With the hon. Member for East Ham, North (Mr. Prentice) and other hon. Members, I still believe that speed is the most constant factor in accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-29", "file": "debates1958-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "cf3694151c8e0620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What organisation is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "necessary to lay the Order, in order to get it through the House before we adjourn for the Summer Recess, before he consulted the interested parties? I cannot understand it, and I hope that he will give us an explanation. The hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies) considered that a fortnight was sufficient. It may be enough for the small organisation which the hon. Member represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-29a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-30", "file": "debates1958-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "7450bba6c110110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The House will be grateful to the Paymaster-General in that, for once, he has taken the House into his confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-30", "file": "debates1958-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "7450bba6c110110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is nothing wrong with that, either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "stry and the funds available would expand and contract with the sales or lack of sales of their products. For all these reasons and very many others we rejected the principle of insurance and decided that the best way to finance the scheme, the fairest and most equitable way, would be to obtain the finance from the Exchequer funds by general taxation, and those who had the most would pay the most.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-30", "file": "debates1958-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "7450bba6c110110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the Service?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ce to the present Government is a smaller percentage of the national income than it was in 1950. In other words, when the burden has become less for the nation it is made heavier for the poorest. That seems to me to be an entirely unjustifiable attitude of approach. Of course, the party opposite would make even more inroads on the Service if they thought that it was politically expedient to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-30", "file": "debates1958-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "7450bba6c110110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "aspect for this country, because these teacher-midwives go out and teach midwives there so as to increase the number available. I am certain that they are ambassadresses for this country in a very singular sense. We had a little assistance to finance this college in the first instance, but now the college is threatened to be closed because the Treasury will not find £3,500 in a year in subvention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-30", "file": "debates1958-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "7450bba6c110110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Triumph.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "It is indeed a gratifying circumstance that, at a time of compelling and absorbing interest in international affairs, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), as shadow Foreign Secretary, should be able to find time to revisit the scenes of his earlier activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-07-30", "file": "debates1958-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "7450bba6c110110c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "in the last two months, but even so it is clear that vaccination is not moving fast enough and we are not pro- gressing at the same pace as other countries which are in a similar economic position to ourselves. We cannot escape the melancholy fact that there are a few people who will suffer from this fell disease simply because the Government have not acted with sufficient and reasonable severity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-30a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (MEETING OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Moscow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "It is the desire of my right hon. and hon. Friends that arrangements should be made as speedily as possible for the Summit Conference. We therefore warmly welcome and support the proposal that 12th August should be fixed and agreed now. I am glad to notice that the right hon. Gentleman has said that he is willing to go to either New York or Geneva, or anywhere else which is agreeable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1604.5", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, Central (Mr. Awbery), if Bailey's hope to employ 5,000 men, and 6,000 will be employed in the naval base, that will still only bring the total to between 10,000 and 11,000 out of about 13,000. May I therefore ask the Colonial Secretary whether it is his intention to press ahead with diversification of industry in other directions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1604.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " that we should be going away for this long period during which we shall be unable to bring these cases to the attention of the House. There is, however, another issue to which I want to refer. Before the House meets again, as one of my hon. Friends reminded us this afternoon, the Rent Act will come into operation, and those people who are to be evicted will have been evicted before we meet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": ". It is my custom, every week while the House is sitting, to hold a \"surgery\" and meet my constituents. I have had a list of cases piled up in which the new Measure that has been passed will not give the relief that is desired. I feel that a long Recess of this character is unjustified and indefensible at a time like this, and that is the main reason for my speaking now. The second reason is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "gestion of mine at Question Time the other day that there should be a joint appeal by the three Prime Ministers—the right hon. Gentleman himself and the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers—to end violence. I hope that that will be successful. I should also like to ask the Government whether, before we go into Recess, they will give an assurance that everything possible through N.A.T.O. will be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT IN WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "acles. It is better that we should all be perfectly frank about these matters. A number of hon. Gentlemen have suggested that all these problems would be solved if a Government decision were taken to put the strip mill at Kidwelly. I understand that arrangements have been made for the whole question of the strip mill to be raised again by some other hon. Gentleman from Scotland later this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-07-31", "file": "debates1958-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9636fffa42a54455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT IN WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " suggested that all these problems would be solved if a Government decision were taken to put the strip mill at Kidwelly. I understand that arrangements have been made for the whole question of the strip mill to be raised again by some other hon. Gentleman from Scotland later this evening. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] So I am informed. It may be that some of the Welsh Members would wish to stay for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-07-31a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-28", "file": "debates1958-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1843460c997bfabb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "due course. I have only one question to ask on this. If one wants to know what other Measures are likely to come forward, one looks to the proceedings of the Conservative Conference. A proposal was raised there which causes us some misgiving. It was the demand that the Representation of the People Act should be amended so as to remove all restrictions on the use of motor cars at General Elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-28", "file": "debates1958-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1843460c997bfabb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "etail is complicated, the purpose is simple and it is clearly stated in the Gracious Speech. A steadily growing proportion of people want to own their own houses and to enjoy the freedom and security which ownership gives. This desire is one which we on this side of the House want to see realised by as many people as possible. Many people have been discouraged from buying their own houses because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-28", "file": "debates1958-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1843460c997bfabb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "nterest is not the only problem. After all, the building societies are able to lend only what they are able to borrow, or what is returned to them through their customers paying off their accounts. Accordingly, the Government propose to remove this obstacle in the simplest possible manner, and that is by advancing Government money to the building societies and so increasing their capacity to lend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-28", "file": "debates1958-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1843460c997bfabb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng their fears of a world war, and trying to build up a campaign in this country on that basis, have now been proved to have been alarmist and unhelpful. If there was any justification for what I have said it was surely that although the situation in the Far East excited the Leader of the Opposition so much in the holidays, he did not make even a passing reference to it today, not one single word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-28", "file": "debates1958-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1843460c997bfabb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sh Government, after initial misgivings, accepted the plan with the changes. I was hopeful that the Greek Government might do so but, alas, they felt bound to reject it. This, I regret to say, was followed by a new campaign of violence in the island. I know that the House would wish me to pay tribute here to the courage and patience of the Governor, of the officials and of all the security forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-28", "file": "debates1958-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1843460c997bfabb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. W. Reynolds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. W. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "overnment, are presumably, to lend to the building societies money which they have borrowed at the Government's rate of credit and that will really mean a subsidy from the Exchequer to owner-occupation. If it is to be Government money coming in with a rate of interest below the general level of the market—presumably the Government will be borrowing at a lower rate—it can only be by such a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-28a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " necessary to the effective working of a libertarian aspect of a scheme, as an argument in favour of an unnecessary extension of State compulsion over the whole field. I really do ask the House to consider that the fact that there may be a compulsion which some hon. Members may find disagreeable is really no argument for further and unnecessary compulsions. I am prepared to leave that matter there", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "gainst a change in living costs of about the same order, which caused right hon. Gentlemen opposite to think an increase of 4s. for some pensioners to be enough—quite plainly indicates that we take very seriously the duty to which the words in the White Paper refer. The right hon. Gentleman appeared to take quite an exception to putting the scheme on a sound financial basis and objected very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "th of the Gracious Speech and of Government policy is the failure to define their aims and to give a general purpose to their policies All they do is indeed dependent upon that little bit of luck. I want to turn now, in particular, to two matters, one of which has been much debated this afternoon, and on both of which the Liberals find themselves in disagreement with both Tory and Labour policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "g the six years when they were in office. I need hardly remind them of the all-night sittings which took place when the Representation of the People Bill was before us in either 1947 or 1948, when the Com- mittee stage of the Bill was discussed on the Floor of the House. We strenuously resisted the Bill and did all in our power to resist that Measure by way of argument and spinning out the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "alise that some right hon. Gentlemen opposite, including the Leader of the Liberal Party, are not too happy about their electoral prospects at the next General Election. Indeed, it may be that the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) and the right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) may be the only two out of the six present Liberal Members to be returned next time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "the Ministry of Labour Gazette of the fall in employment in the industry which concerns my hon. Friend and his constituents could feel that he took even his due proportion of time. It is my regret that those hon. Members of the Conservative Party who should be showing the same kind of concern and interest were not here to listen to my hon. Friend's speech. One of the amazing things of this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-29", "file": "debates1958-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e2058d01110b6f0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL INJURIES (PRESCRIBED DISEASES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is he Mrs. Dale's Husband?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "Assistance officer doing precisely the same work as the almoner would be denied it. As my hon. Friend has suggested, the National Assistance officers argued the substance of this matter reasonably well through their appropriate association. The other matter which is worthy of comment is the Minority Report, at least the submission by Mr. Dale, who put three very fair points which are unanswerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-29a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "all not seek to destroy by the same methods the existing Government in Bagdad. It really must be realised, humiliating though it might be to some people, that the association of the Western Powers with the leader of an Arab State does not reinforce his position with his own people, and that it would be a very great mistake for us to try to induce, cajole, seduce—or use whatever adjective you like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And look what happened to him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ry to put out the flames of conflict when they arise but to do nothing at all in between. Decisions should have been made about the offshore islands long ago. When the British Labour delegation went to Moscow in 1954, we did our very best to prevail upon Mr. Malenkov, the then Russian Prime Minister, to influence the Chinese Government not to raise too many difficulties about Formosa at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " met with no response and they resumed their tests. Now we do not know what is going to happen. Do I understand from the right hon. Gentleman that if the Russians continue their tests we shall continue ours? Is that the intention, because he left that rather ambiguous? May I have a reply? When the conference meets tomorrow, if the Russian tests continue, do we continue ours? I should like to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "tly well what the position is. Jordan and Israel are at war. Israel is explicitly a religious State and by its laws every Jew throughout the world is a citizen of Israel. Jordan is bound to take account of that fact. I am not here to justify or explain the rules which govern the armistice between the countries of the Middle East, but to make a speech about what I think Government policy should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.352.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e of war. If we use the language of war, do rot associate women and children with it. I ask the Government to do that, and if they refuse to do it, we must have an answer why, and it ought to be a satisfactory one. I want to say something about the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the smashing indictment against not only that Organisation but this Government by Field Marshal Lord Montgomery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Front Bench.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill), who praised what we had done in the military sphere. But it was done at great risk; we became very unpopular. As a result of my unpopularity among my own folk, some of them on these benches, for whom I have very great affection, I was dismissed summarily from the National Executive of the Labour Party. But that is past and out of the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ions and millions of pounds since this Government came in. What value have we got for it if N.A.T.O. is as weak as the Field Marshal suggests? The Government must answer that, and they will have to go on answering that until the next General Election. After that, it will not matter so much because, I have not the least doubt, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale will be Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman should listen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has repudiated the impression which he certainly gave me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-10-30", "file": "debates1958-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "5ec2d88e596c1b17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.463.10", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "he few whites in the White Highlands. The history of the White Highlands is thoroughly ignoble. The first white settlers to arrive in Kenya took the best land that they could find for their farms, and some years later they laid claim to the whole area in the Highlands which was suitable for European occupation. It is sometimes claimed that few non-Europeans, if any, were displaced by this process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-10-30a.463.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "ADEN (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I gather that the occasion for these riots and a general strike and for all that happened—which is a very serious matter, with five killed and many injured—was the conviction of two journalists. Could the Secretary of State tell us what lies behind this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.614.9", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "mber, 1957—and this was clear from the Washington pronouncements of the then Chancellor, the one we do not mention—marked the date when the Government finally decided to sacrifice full employment to the fight against an inflation which had already passed. That is very clear from what the then Chancellor said. What has happened since? The gold reserves have risen we welcome that. We predicted that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.614.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "nternal inflation, far from being a boom it would have proved an unmitigated disaster. The right hon. Gentleman has quoted the rate of increase in production under the Socialist Government. Under that Government, we did, in fact, have rising production and full employment, with one notable interruption. It took a brilliant stroke of Socialist planning to create nearly 2 million unemployed in 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Excessively low?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "s been partly due to other causes such as lower exports. To date, however, it is unquestionable that the improvement both in our general economic strength and in stability has been worth the price paid. The level of the unemployment at about 2·2 or 2·3 per cent. is by any standards still a low figure and, relatively to most other industrial countries today, an excessively low figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Extremely low?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Derick Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": " is unquestionable that the improvement both in our general economic strength and in stability has been worth the price paid. The level of the unemployment at about 2·2 or 2·3 per cent. is by any standards still a low figure and, relatively to most other industrial countries today, an excessively low figure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Excessively low?\"] Certainly, it is an extremely low figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " figure of 8 or 10 per cent., it is a calamitous state, for which something must be done. The Government are doing what they can in these areas and a new Bill passed during the last summer—the Distribution of Industry Act—should be of decisive value in itself. We ought to know how serious it is, because, for party political reasons, the Labour Party has been dressing it up as one great Aunt Sally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ave too much high-mindedness and high thinking on this subject engendered from the other side, about it always having been the policy of the Labour Party to maintain unemployment at about 1 per cent. and that one should only really get angry when it rises to 2·2 per cent. Here was a deliberate calculation, after the war, based on an expected, anticipated, if not positively welcomed policy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "aving come and having seen the human side of it, he understood it even better than when he was relying only on published figures and statistics. I wish the Prime Minister would do the same. Let him come to Nelson or Colne, or, may I say, to the constituency of the hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt). If he says no more than he said in his speech, the shadow that is over Lancashire will deepen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-03", "file": "debates1958-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a65a56072ad3d1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Fort", "preceding_text": "by criticising my hon. Friend the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) for not being held in higher repute in his own party. After listening to the fluency of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne and the extraordinary irrelevancy of so many of his arguments, I and all on these benches can well understand why he is held in so little repute and has so little influence in his Own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-03a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICAN TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "In answer to that and on a point of explanation, may I say that I am responsible for answering Questions on the Northern Territories of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and I will certainly answer Questions on them. I understood that these two Questions related to the Federal roll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": " a third time. Be that as it may, in the Board of Trade we try to assess the state of the economy without taking Gallup Polls into our calculations and I should like to compare our view of production with that of the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) and his hon. Friends. They say the Government are responsible for the fall in output and that it could have been avoided. Well, it is true", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "e been continued here, provided the Government had reintroduced Socialist planning and controls. That is what the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) said last night. The essence of his speech was that Scotland would be far better off if all its industry were controlled and planned by the Government —and that means controlled and planned by London, which some of his constituents may not like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Motor cars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "document. The Blackpool Party Conference was an electioneering conference. As far as I can remember, it is about the first time that a Conservative Party Conference has been taken seriously by a Conservative Government. The Government are carrying out the decisions of that conference almost line by line, which is a most extraordinary thing for the Conservative Party to do. All of this is politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to have the opportunity of addressing the House after the right hon. Member for Lewis ham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) who, I am sure, will forgive me if I do not follow him very far in his arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the steering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Barlow", "preceding_text": " seem to me that he disliked using brakes or accelerators in any way. We like using them very much less than the Labour Party. The party opposite likes a policy of complete controls. We like to use the minimum of controls. The right hon. Gentleman talked about cars. I assure him that if he goes on a car ride and does not use either the brakes or the accelerator he will have a very poor run indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "arty on this side has been in power the figures compare very favourably indeed with those during the years of the Labour Government, until we run into the recent figures, to which I will come in due course. What lurks behind the deduction which the hon. Member for Dundee, East attempted to draw is that the party opposite is in great difficulty in finding anything on which to attack the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I have not the figures against which to check that statement, and I am not proposing to go into a statistical argument without having the same figures in front of both of us. I am pointing out the fallacy of the 1–25 proportion, or 1–100, which was used in the country and in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I have not the figures against which to check that statement, and I am not proposing to go into a statistical argument without having the same figures in front of both of us. I am pointing out the fallacy of the 1–25 proportion, or 1–100, which was used in the country and in this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members must not shy off now that this point is being put to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": " statistical angles. If, after I have spoken, the hon. Member for Hamilton wants to inquire into the precise series of calculations to arrive at the figures I shall be only too glad to give it to him. It would be very boring for me to give it to the House. I take the years from 1952 to 1957, and the test must be of building by organisations, whatever they may be, where the Government are involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take you time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I have not yet finished my speech and I shall come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ree trade. That is something of an advance, but I notice that he relies wholly on voluntary agreement. That is all right for a start, but suppose we cannot get voluntary agreement. Do we sit back and let the industry decay? Or are the Government then prepared, as we are, to use Government action to give it the necessary breathing space? It is the same in regard to the organisation of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "e any sign of a boom as far as production was concerned? None whatever. If hon. Members doubt my views on this, I would refer them to that eminent Conservative economist, Mr. Harrod, who has, I think, very recently been trying to secure a seat in the House to sit on the benches opposite, and who, indeed, I am bound to say, would be a great reinforcement to the benches opposite on economic affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "repeat something which I said the other day. The record since 1951 is this: an average expansion of industrial production up to 1955 of about 3 per cent.; since 1955 to the beginning of this year, no increase at all; since the beginning of this year, a decline in production. That is the record of the Tory Government since they came into power in 1951. It is all very well to speak in general terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-04", "file": "debates1958-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "b0da13c1c15a86d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ich it was in 1957? Why should it be supposed that unless the Chancellor takes special steps to stop them, the very evils of which he is so frightened will not recur as soon as he lets up? The Chancellor speaks of aiming at \"the highest level compatible with price stability.\" Supposing the Government fail to prevent a rise in retail prices in the next few months, do we have another credit squeeze?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-04a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many experienced schools of motoring will say that lady drivers, although often very irritating, are, on the whole, more careful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Insulting the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "ause inconvenience to candidates of all parties and to the electorate; fourthly, and perhaps as important as any other, that they bring the law into contempt. We had hoped that Her Majesty's Opposition might have come to a similar view in the light of their experience of the restrictions. At any rate, unlike our predecessors we did not want to alter the law without first consulting the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " and not look to Parliament to continue to give statutory sanction to what amounts to a restrictive practice in modern times. From any point of view, these restrictions are ill-conceived, silly and, I think, anti-democratic. It is, therefore, not surprising that the evidence from the public Press of the working of Section 88 indicates that these restrictions have been ignored by both main parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the hon. Member doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "I should think that the whole House knows me sufficiently well now to understand that I was not making a threat of disorder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.961.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I did not happen to read the article in the Daily Mail that day although I usually read that paper daily. There was doubt, however, and there has been doubt expressed by some members of our party—I tell the House frankly—whether it was a good thing to take this action now. My own view is that your action depends entirely on what your motive is. Our motive is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.963.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not yet.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.964.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Williams", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.964.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.966.2", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "When you are carrying your party colours the onus is on you to prove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.966.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "provisions in the Bill to deal with this matter is that there is evidence now that the facilities of Government Departments are being used for party political purposes. That is a very grave charge. I have gone very carefully into the evidence and I gave notice to the two Ministers concerned—the Minister of Housing and Local Government and the Minister of Health—that I would be raising this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ds and then gloried in the fact that they carried these methods to perfection. That is the measure of what Colman Prentis & Varley has done to us. I am quite sure that these tricks and devices will be self-defeating. No decent person in Britain wants to see us brought down to the level of American electioneering with all its high-pressure salesmanship. This is just what the Conservatives are doing", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will appreciate, surely, that local government elections are restricted to a ward, or two wards, for a county council election. The area is smaller, and the number of voters smaller.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"God help us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " want of allude, the matter of the ownership of motor cars. In 1931, only a matter of 25 years ago, there were about 1 million vehicles in this country. When the 1949 Act reached the Statute Book, there were fewer than 50 per cent. of the number of motor cars there are today. The private motor car population has doubled in ten years. I am in no doubt that in the next ten years it will double again", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have private experience to draw upon, but I am not covered under Section 88 as a Parliamentary candidate. I drive my car around to the committee rooms and my wife drives another car to the committee rooms. There is no law against that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman, who is sympathetic to certain sections of my argument. I am not so dogmatic as to believe that anybody can be completely right in this matter, but of one thing I am quite sure. I used the word \"ubiquitous\" just now; I am using it again. There is a practice, which is quite ubiquitous, of Labour supporters riding in Tory cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And helicopters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "n Britain are faced with the problem of where to park the cars of their workers? Men and women of every degree go to their work in hundreds of thousands of cars, and they create for factory managements a growing: parking problem. I only mention till; to illustrate the proliferation and the wide ownership of motor vehicles of every description. I say nothing about mopeds, scooters and motor cycles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " say nothing about mopeds, scooters and motor cycles. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And helicopters.\"] There may be helicopters in the years to come. A huge number of vehicles is available, far greater than ever before, and it is surely ridiculous for us, the Conservative Party, responsible for the Government at this time, to allow to remain on the Statute Book a totally unenforceable and illogical provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "omplete silence, and none has been entirely rebutted by anything which they have said, particularly about the size of constituencies and the number of motor cars available. An added reason for the change is that the Conservative Party annual conference has wholeheartedly supported this provision in earlier years. I do not believe that the Bill will be regarded in the country as a partisan Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "A number of examples in the past have been brought to my notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "r the Tory candidate\". There is not usually a great deal of room in our village streets where the schools are. Is it fair for all the rich people in the neighbourhood to come with their cars, leaving them parked outside the polling station and bearing placards with the name of their candidate on them? If a Labour supporter did that within the precincts of the schools, he would be breaking the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": " Tories can come with a vast fleet of cars, parking them outside the polling stations, and get away with it. If, at a Parliamentary Election, we are now to find in front of every one of our local polling stations a fleet of cars standing with Tory colours on them, the Labour cars being unable to carry their voters up to the polling stations because the roads are blocked, and the entrances to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1003.7", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tory freedom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": " the purport of the discussion that has followed publication of the Bill? The Times and the Daily Telegraph do not support the party on this side of the House; but, after all, the Daily Telegraph is a responsible paper, and on 30th October it published a leader on this subject. It also published letters, said that it had received many more from Conservatives, and promised a second leading article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1003.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In a Tory car.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ights and duties are interfered with as the law now stands. The present law not only appears to individuals to be irksome; it runs directly counter to what they believe to be right. Let me give an obvious example. Many people have an elderly relative living near them. What is more proper on Election day than to give that person, a mother or father, or whoever he or she may be, a lift to the polls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " now stands. The present law not only appears to individuals to be irksome; it runs directly counter to what they believe to be right. Let me give an obvious example. Many people have an elderly relative living near them. What is more proper on Election day than to give that person, a mother or father, or whoever he or she may be, a lift to the polls? [An HON. MEMBER: \"In a Tory car.\"] In any car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not merely amend it.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member will study the law, he will see that it permits individual candidates to register an unlimited number of cars. What the candidates are limited to is using the cars. As far as I know, the law does not in any way limit the places where the cars can be used. I am merely saying that this is the kind of thing which is worrying people and which may be an infringement or defect in the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Of course not. Nobody knows. It would be a breach of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about counting the people who go in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Of course not. Nobody knows. It would be a breach of the law—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—to know what proportion of a small village voted. It would be highly improper. We get the proportionate return for the constituency, but not for each polling booth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is doing all right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ifferent as to the way in which their passengers vote and do not mind at all which way those passengers vote.… In that case, they would not be caught by this Clause.\"—[OFFICIAL, REPORT, 14th June, 1948; Vol. 452, c. 115.] When I think that the Attorney-General of the day had to give that sort of advice to the Government, I am not surprised that Sir Hartley Shawcross has chucked in his hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has the hon. Member done it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "idate. I understand that another system which has been tried is for an exhibition of paintings to be given in a house near to the polling station. Any car can take a person to the exhibition. At the back door of the house where the exhibition is held there is a car which runs a shuttle service backwards and forwards to the polling booth. I am assured that that is perfectly legal and has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheeldon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has four cars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheeldon", "preceding_text": "exaggeration to put the case in the way in which it has been put by some hon. Members today. The point was made by the Home Secretary that in these days of universal car ownership everything should be all right. That is stuff and nonsense. There has been talk about 4½ million cars. I believe that the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) said there was one car for every four families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "I can supply the hon. Member with evidence from one Scottish rural constituency, my own, where the poll has dropped over the last three General Elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " we should hear a closely reasoned debate why Section 88 of the Representation of the People Act, 1949, should not be repealed. Instead, I repeat, we have been subjected to a wide range of accusations, comprising anything from corruption to misuse of wealth. Hon. Members opposite have even gone back to the seventeenth century to get examples which might be assumed to be arguments against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "subjected to a wide range of accusations, comprising anything from corruption to misuse of wealth. Hon. Members opposite have even gone back to the seventeenth century to get examples which might be assumed to be arguments against the Bill. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Small Heath, as I said, at least appeared to the listener to be dealing with the Section which has been under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "y neglected to point out corresponding advantages which accrue to the Socialist Party. We did not hear a word about the political levy, for instance, and of the 'massive sums of money, in the form of fighting funds, placed at the disposal of the Socialist Party by the trade unions out of the contributions of members, including Conservatives and others who may not be supporters of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "cure a majority for that party. If hon. Members opposite really think that being the so-called rich party can, in fact, win elections, I advise them to read today's newspapers and see the results of the elections in America. In actual fact, of course, elections are not won or lost as a result of there being twenty, twenty-two or twenty-four cars to a constituency. Turning now to Section 88 itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "driving the vehicle. Hon. Members know perfectly well that it would be almost impossible for any law administrator to see this law carried out. That is the chief and fundamental reason for getting rid of it. It is completely wrong, within the constitution. to keep a law so open to abuse that it puts a premium on the dishonest people of any party. That is what the present system has, in fact, done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "n one visit to the polls. We all know that this has happened. I do not think one hon. Member could honestly say that no supporter of his at the last Election had not broken this law by taking other than members of his own household to the polls. If hon. Members in their heart of hearts can say that they believe there has been no instance of abuse in their constituencies, they are even more naive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "uliarly nauseating when it comes from the party which passed the 1948 Act, which, as my hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams) reminded the House earlier, was ostensibly designed to enact the proposals of the 1944 Speaker's Conference. The 1948 Act set to work, as far as it dared, to put the Labour Party in a position where it would be more likely to win the 1950 General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Freeth", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr. Dudley Williams) reminded the House earlier, was ostensibly designed to enact the proposals of the 1944 Speaker's Conference. The 1948 Act set to work, as far as it dared, to put the Labour Party in a position where it would be more likely to win the 1950 General Election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The next thing that party did was to abolish the university seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Why not restore them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "—apparently because the university electors were too intelligent to return Socialist Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "g to show to which party the owner belongs it is legal, then nobody is able to fulfil that condition when they have been campaigning for some time. The number of cars has been too small. I read today that in the Chichester by-election there is not even one car per polling station. If a car goes wrong on the morning of polling day it cannot be taken out of service and a substitute put into service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impartial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ich was to attack the Labour Party's housing policy. It was a direct attack on this party, involving party politics. The Attorney-General has seen the evidence for himself, of Government labels addressographed and apparently a mailing list which came from Government sources all used by this organisation. Prima facie this is an extremely serious matter which requires the most serious investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "narrowly drawn as to exclude any possibility of Amendments. What the Government are concerned with is to get the Measure through, and to get it through at all costs before the Election. This is the very first Measure introduced by the Government after the Queen's Speech. I put it higher. It is the only Measure which it is absolutely certain the Government will get through before the next Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Attorney-General will forgive me, I should like to put one question to the Leader of the House. Very grave charges have been made with regard to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Ministry of Health. Is it not desirable that the appropriate Ministers should be in their places?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1061.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "May I say in reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "der. I think the right hon. Gentleman's first charge was that the Tory Party did not publish its accounts, and that allegation was again repeated by the hon. and learned Gentleman. We had a debate on this matter as long ago as 1949. Does the right hon. Gentleman seriously suggest that the Socialist Party publishes a full account of what is spent on Socialist organisation, propaganda and education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "counts, and that allegation was again repeated by the hon. and learned Gentleman. We had a debate on this matter as long ago as 1949. Does the right hon. Gentleman seriously suggest that the Socialist Party publishes a full account of what is spent on Socialist organisation, propaganda and education? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do the accounts published include all that is raised in the political levy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " they are important. Do they include all the moneys spent by the Co-operative Union, and by the Co-operative Party, on political education and propaganda? That does not seem to me to tally at all with what the late Mr. Greenwood said in the debate in 1949, when he undertook to make more disclosures if the Conservative Party agreed to do the same. That does not look as if there was full disclosure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Conservative Party agreed to do the same. That does not look as if there was full disclosure. [ Interruption. ] The truth is that these accounts, which were put forward as accounts of expenditure on advocating Socialism and on propaganda, are incomplete accounts. When complete accounts are published perhaps that subject can be raised again. The next subject which the right hon. Gentleman attacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "not be regarded as wrong, even by the party opposite, for anyone attacked to defend himself. Although it may annoy the party opposite, I believe it to be in the interests not only of the directors and shareholders, but of the public and the employees in those industries, that the facts should be made known, and made known without any doubt. I do not, however, want to take up any more time on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I must say that I shall look forward to reading HANSARD tomorrow to see whether my note was correct, or the right hon. Gentleman's correction. But let us take it on that, that the accusation is that Government facilities have been used by the Rented Homes Campaign. I can say with regard to that that no Government facilities of any kind have been put by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I made it perfectly clear, I trust, that I hoped we should get a proper explanation of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I made it perfectly clear, I trust, that I hoped we should get a proper explanation of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You have got it.\"] We have not. We are very, very far from it. The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well that these labels have been used, these addressographs and this mailing list. What we want to know is, on this prima facie case, what is the explanation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am endeavouring to answer, and if the hon. and learned Gentleman will contain himself for a moment, he will get the answer. Let us see what the evidence produced is, the evidence which has been held up so long. There are two envelopes—let me remind the House of this—two envelopes with postmarks dated 17th September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1066.6", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "thorisation of any kind for the use of envelopes, addressographs or anything of that sort for this purpose. I went on to say, and I should like to repeat, that if these stick-on labels, bearing these code numbers, were put on these envelopes in a Government Departmnt by a civil servant then it would seem that that civil servant was guilty of misconduct. I want to add that really this small matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1066.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "draw a Question on the subject. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister wishes me to say that he has asked Sir Norman Brook, as head of the Civil Service, to investigate whether any unauthorised use has been made of Government facilities in this respect, so that there will be an immediate investigation, and I have no doubt that the right hon. Member for Smethwick will make the documents available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " this to the right hon. and learned Gentleman? Is it right to pass the responsibility of this inquiry on to another civil servant? May I put it to him that there should be an outside, independent person, possibly a High Court judge, to investigate this matter. Further, I think it is improper to shove this on to another civil servant. Secondly, may I ask whether the Attorney-General will undertake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "o the second question, I am sure that a statement will be made when the investigation is completed. The right hon. Gentleman asks me again by whom it would be done. I have said that the Prime Minister has asked the right hon. Sir Norman Brook, as head of the Civil Service, to do this. I would say in reply to the right hon. Gentleman that really it is appropriate that the head of the Civil Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "tinction which exists between the amusing invective which we have heard deployed recently by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) and mere vulgar abuse. Now may I turn to the Bill. In the course of this debate not so very much has been said about the Bill and I would at least say that it is a beautifully drafted Bill, it is a model of brevity, it is clear in its language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-05", "file": "debates1958-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "fccea16037c4e52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "hich we have heard deployed recently by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) and mere vulgar abuse. Now may I turn to the Bill. In the course of this debate not so very much has been said about the Bill and I would at least say that it is a beautifully drafted Bill, it is a model of brevity, it is clear in its language—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Poole.\"]—I am talking about the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-05a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-06", "file": "debates1958-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6f1497e68a56462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-06a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ACT (CONTINUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tedious repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) persuaded you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker to allow him to complete his remarks about Cyprus because, without any collusion, I was about to say exactly the same thing; and to reinforce that point, although I cannot do it nearly as eloquently as he does, I will, with your permission, say exactly the same as he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-06a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-06", "file": "debates1958-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6f1497e68a56462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-06a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ACT (CONTINUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "breaches of discipline, and I am bound to say to the right hon. Gentleman that, if there were to be at any time in the future, it would be quite wrong to lay the responsibility and fault entirely at the Government's door. The Opposition have to bear their share of responsibility for having given encouragement, no doubt unwittingly, to those forces in Cyprus which are responsible for the emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-06a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-10", "file": "debates1958-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2fa34d818bdc2846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "is. Something will have to go in the next Price Review in order to provide the finance for these small farmers according to the statement in the Bill. Therefore, the farming industry itself will have to provide the finance and the Bill is an enforced self-denying ordinance. Whatever else the Minister says today, he must admit that not a penny piece will be taken from the Exchequer for this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-10", "file": "debates1958-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2fa34d818bdc2846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " to the statement in the Bill. Therefore, the farming industry itself will have to provide the finance and the Bill is an enforced self-denying ordinance. Whatever else the Minister says today, he must admit that not a penny piece will be taken from the Exchequer for this scheme. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Not in addition to what is taken out of the kitty which already belongs to the farming industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-10", "file": "debates1958-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2fa34d818bdc2846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three acres.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ese are family farms and the husband not only looks after his own small farm but spends the day helping a larger farmer. It is discouraging if such a man believes that he does not qualiy merely because he comes just under the 20-acre limit. A predecessor of the Minister once stated from the Front Bench opposite that the ideal was five acres and a cow. I do not want it to be brought as low as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-10", "file": "debates1958-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2fa34d818bdc2846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Hurd", "preceding_text": "tituent much in my mind at the moment, who has 80 acres. Let us consider his rating under this scheme. In standard man-days, his 15 cows and followers bring him 300 marks; 12 sows and followers 100; 12 acres of grain 56; a total of 456. On that score he is out. Yet he is a worthy man who has worked very hard, and so has his wife. It is difficult for him to understand why, in equity, he is cut out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-10", "file": "debates1958-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2fa34d818bdc2846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SMALL FARMERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "tives have ululated like vixens in the Christmas moonlight about the subsidies being given to council house tenants and others. Yet, if we added up the support given to British agriculture over the years we should find that it would be interesting to make a comparison. How should one historically and innately opposed to the Conservative philosophy approach the Bill if he tries to be an honest man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-10a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. TOM CHAPMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your movement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "While we are all duly appreciative of the interest which the Tory Party now take in our trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will appreciate that this is a highly complicated statistical operation in which we are both engaged, and a difficult matter to deal with by way of question and answer. I do not see that the question of prospective or actual emigration has anything to do with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ugh a stockbroker in good equity shares in 1919. If this money had been allowed to accumulate from 1919, through the ups and downs, through the gains and losses, what would have happened to the £100? The answer is, of course, that it would have swollen to £3,086, not £381, and the income would have been £1,500 a year and not £16. I only say this to remind us how it is that people who have to save—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One thousand five hundred pounds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "d been allowed to accumulate from 1919, through the ups and downs, through the gains and losses, what would have happened to the £100? The answer is, of course, that it would have swollen to £3,086, not £381, and the income would have been £1,500 a year and not £16. I only say this to remind us how it is that people who have to save—[ Laughter. ] Government supporters may laugh but this is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "is maiden speech from the Dispatch Box. He started by saying that he came to the Dispatch Box after thirteen years on the back benches. He has a very special talent for opposition, because he has spent thirteen years in opposition. Whatever the Government, the hon. Member has always been in opposition. He is, in fact, a sort of Vicar of Bray in reverse—whatever the Government, he is in Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "es over a certain period. I should have thought that he would have had more feeling for his right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) whose policies were the prime reason for the poor return on gilt-edged securities in this country today. Of course, and probably through force of habit, the hon. Gentleman got his notes muddled up. In some ways he is like Lord Randolph Churchill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "d not dictate the use of the income of the individual so as to compel him to make provision for old age above a reasonable level, and the State should not wholly replace the private action which is making so notable a contribution in this respect. In applying these principles, we claim to have evolved a scheme which is as good as any yet devised. It is a scheme which may be capable of improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "hen, the real purchasing power of the pension after the Labour Party raised it with an eye on the election was still lower than the initial rate in 1946. It was rather remarkable that we should have a speech complaining about what we are doing for the old-age pensioners from the hon. Member for Mansfield (Mr. B. Taylor), who was Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry at that time, and who failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PROVISION FOR OLD AGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " waters of inflation will never be held by artificial barriers erected for the protection of this sector or that. The right way to counter inflation is to seek to abate the waters at their source and prevent the flow of inflation bringing distress and difficulty in their wake. The Labour Party put forward the policy of the automatic link. We say that that is misconceived, because it will not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-11", "file": "debates1958-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2e0d05e18fd936e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "SLAUGHTERHOUSES (MEAT INSPECTION GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "preceding_text": "ry Secretary in bringing these Regulations before the House is, on its face value, to be applauded. When one looks superficially at their reason for so doing, how can one object to what appears to be at the back of their minds? They say that it is not right or proper that areas which undergo considerable expense in order to export meat after the slaughtering of cattle, sheep, pigs and even horses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-11a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "Is not it a fact that there are considerable arrears to make up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister do the House the courtesy of treating seriously what Lord Montgomery has had to say, and will he make a statement to the House as to whether he agrees or disagrees with Lord Montgomery?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.383.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.383.9", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Surely, the Government can say something about the Field Marshal's criticisms of the organisation and staffing at N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.383.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "With respect, that was not the question I asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Minister's reply, and the clear indication that he has not made inquiries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Minister's reply, and the clear indication that he has not made inquiries—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and in view of the clear indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.385.8", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "With respect, may I finish what I wanted to say? I beg to give notice that in view of the unsatisfactory reply, and the clear indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.385.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I understand that that was an impromptu remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. This seems to me to be raising an entirely new matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "nal Dried Milk, concentrated orange juice, cod liver oil and vitamin tablets. The fourth power is a precautionary one which the Government feel they must have. The House will realise how dependent we are in this country in respect of vital commodities of more than one kind on supplies from areas which have been afflicted by the international political instability which has prevailed since the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "n announcement that he has decided the matter on the side of the employers. As regards the merits of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal, it seems to be beyond doubt that it has been an extremely valuable supplement to the normal methods of collective bargaining. It has done a great deal to enhance respect for constitutional methods and procedures. There have been very few references to the Tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To direct labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "getting out of hand and out of control. Some of these powers already exist, of course, and are not to be affected by the Bill. We will probably need power to license industrial building. This is necessary for a balanced economy, and necessary, also, if we want to direct labour into the pockets of unemployment. There is not a more efficient lever to do this thing. If the Government wanted to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.434.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ers for pointing that out. We are certainly opposed to the Bill and we will fight every detail of it very strongly on Committee. We think that it restricts powers which are needed to maintain full employment, with stable prices, and which will be needed if we want to develop the Commonwealth economy. We think that the Bill attempts to deny to the Labour Government that will follow this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.434.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " Except perhaps in August, 1939, I have never ceased to do my best to oppose Governments taking powers which they could not demonstrate they absolutely needed at that moment, and I have never ceased to press Governments to give up any powers which they had and for which they did not see any immediate need. Both in public and in private I have never ceased to do so. The effect perhaps has been nil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "t is a principle in itself and defensible—I do not say that everybody is always to be governed by it. It is a respectable principle that with what is done, and at the time is said to be done, in order to make it a little more likely that we win a war which we appear very likely to lose, if that is why the thing is done, it should, within a generation, be undone, even if it ought then to be redone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Montgomery?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ee everything, all principles, sacrificed to the public interest in time of war but we were prepared to see all public interests sacrificed to our doctrinairisms in time of peace. Hon. Gentlemen opposite find it very difficult to grasp the simple distinction. War is the simplest of all operations. Any fool, if he can stay there long enough, can be a success in war. It always comes right in the end", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " that these matters are very fiddling matters; in either case, I believe, they deceive themselves if they think they do themselves any good by saying that these matters which many of us did, I did, many of us did, with the utmost regret, not trusting hon. Gentlemen opposite in the least if they should have office either wholly or in a coalition, nor very much trusting hon. Gentlemen of this party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "an do what the right hon. Gentleman said his party would do—guarantee full employment. It cannot be done, and it is a terrible deception of the ordinary people to pretend that it can be done. If I may say so with respect—and I do not say this in an abusive way—if right hon. and lion. Gentlemen opposite go to the country with a tale like that it will be rather like getting votes by false pretences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "stles and fertilisers; on the licensing of food canning, the manufacture and use of confectionery, soft drinks, milk and cream; on trading in milk; on check trading; on registration of ships built in the United Kingdom; on the requisition of space in ships and aircraft; on the requisitioning and sale of foreign securities—and another batch of price controls, sausages, sausage meat, cereal fillers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Emergency Laws (Repeal) Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "which, if I may say without impertinence, I thought was one of the most delightful of many that I have heard him deliver—have all been speaking urgently about the Industrial Disputes Tribunal. I recognise that these are serious pleas and arguments about the continued existence of that Tribunal. I am sure the House would not want me, a mere lawyer, dealing with an Emergency Laws (Continuation) Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "e 14 oz. loaf. The right hon. Member for Smethwick asked about it, as did my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, North-West (Mr. F. Harris). When the right hon. Gentleman was speaking about it I began to think that he was asking for the retort which he got, which was, \"If this thing is such a naked fraud, permitting bakers to perpetrate a naked fraud continuously, why did you not do away with it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I hope we shall not be chided for drafting in wide terms because at other moments we are chided for risking too narrow a foresight in this field, and that is why we have used wider terms here. The sort of thing we have in mind is that a country has put a ban on supplies, a political act of a foreign Government. We have to maintain supplies against interruption for other reasons, civil war, unrest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that. I am thinking that, or rather we were thinking that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.517.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "anted to see, in this very imaginary situation, whether we are trying to spoil what we can suppose will be a Socialist Government next time, this is what I read: Planning does not mean a return to detailed controls. Direct controls over consumer goods and raw materials were necessary after the war, mostly because of conditions of extreme scarcity, and are unlikely to be needed again in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.518.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.527.5", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "otes and Proceedings, but he has also used the Press to inform the country that he intended to raise a matter of great public importance, involving the lives and safety of British forces in Cyprus and of British civilians in Cyprus. I submit that the whole history of Cyprus has been bedevilled by just this kind of back-bench pressure exerted in a most irresponsible way without any regard whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.527.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Mr. Speaker Clifton Brown.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " by any Standing Order or any ruling of the House, but merely by a diktat, if I may use that word, or by notice which you gave to the House on 25th March, 1955, of what you intend to do. I should have thought, Sir, that you are guided by the advice and decision of your predecessors to hon. Members as to what their rights in this matter are. It has been pointed out that Mr. Speaker Clifton Johnson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.528.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.534.7", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. I have not raised the matter for a personal reason. My points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.534.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-12", "file": "debates1958-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a92d6e42ead699c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "The subject of rural transport, although it may not be as pressing as the subject of Cyprus, is one which is extremely pressing to those who live in rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-12a.538.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.550.7", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "If I were able to make the regulation for which the hon. Gentleman asks, I am not sure that it would achieve his object. It is so clearly in the interests of a public company to protect itself against nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.550.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Since this House has placed upon trade unions a statutory obligation to prepare and submit separately their political accounts setting out every penny which is spent on political purposes, why does the right hon. Gentleman think it would be unjust to compel companies to do exactly what the Government are compelling the trade unions to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.551.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I think that is a hypothetical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.559.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.559.8", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Is this not just further evidence of corrupt practices by the party opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.559.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and learned Gentleman recognise that this is not a party point? I am sure that hon. Members in all parts of the House feel that in these circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. In general, payments for political purposes are not a proper deduction from gross income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "MINISTER'S SPEECH (PRESS RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The Editor of the Labour Teacher handed this over two years ago —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "MINISTER'S SPEECH (PRESS RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " then, because of the Brook inquiry, the Editor of the Labour Teacher wrote to Sir Norman Brook to say that he had received this. I have been informed by the Editor that he is still prepared to swear on oath that he received this Conservative and Unionist Central Office publication of the Minister's speech in the official envelope. The Editor is still prepared to swear on oath that he received it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.570.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "MINISTER'S SPEECH (PRESS RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "he Editor that he is still prepared to swear on oath that he received this Conservative and Unionist Central Office publication of the Minister's speech in the official envelope. The Editor is still prepared to swear on oath that he received it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years ago.\"] Of course it is two years ago, but I am dealing with the President of the Board of Trade, who is known as \"Smarty Boots\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "MINISTER'S SPEECH (PRESS RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", two days after it was made. We know that he received an envelope with this document about teachers' pensions. It is possible, but, I should have thought, very unlikely, that both these documents were put in the same envelope, nor do I see why it should have been done. It is very unlikely that it would have been done and it is not likely that it would have been sent out two days after the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "chase is necessary and, indeed, overdue. In the general sense, I believe that to be so. But it requires no stretch of the imagination to see that where we part company is on the question of betterment. Hon Members opposite believe that increases in compensation should be financed not from public funds but, to use the old-fashioned expression, from the unearned increment that accrues to landowners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": " advocacy of the single tax. But a number of attempts have been made to deal with betterment for the community. It was tried by Mr. Lloyd George, as he then was, when he introduced his increment value duty in 1909. It was tried by the then Mr. Philip Snowden, in 1931, and it was tried again in 1947. But by 1952 it was clear, at any rate to hon. Members on this side of the House, that that system —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.591.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ong run wreck the whole basis of the scheme.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th March, 1954; Vol. 525, c. 70.] Right hon. and hon. Members opposite cannot complain that they were not warned. My hon. Friend the Member for It is Widnes (Mr. MacColl) described the true two-price system as a shocking injustice to perpetuate between one landowner and another.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th March, 1954; Vol. 525, c. 79.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.594.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who started it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman really does not want to get involved right back in history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"England.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "ent basis; and, for that reason, in many cases second-best and even third-best or fourth-best land was taken. I give the point to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central. My evidence comes from England, I have no evidence from Scotland, but in England there is a great deal of evidence that the present unfair code of compensation is militating against the proper and right value of the land of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": " by a private buyer. We on this side of the House said in 1947, and again in 1952, that these two sets of values were unfair and now the Government are righting that injustice. Look at the position in which the Tory Party has placed the citizens of this country. By the 1952 Act and subsequent Acts it denationalised the development value of the land of the country and gave it back to the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I am always willing to try to help all hon. Members of the Committee, as I think is well known. I would point out to the hon. and learned Member for Cardigan (Mr. Bowen) that at the time when there was a certain lack of bodies on the Liberal benches.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-13", "file": "debates1958-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "076b9168e87a7ae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — B.B.C. SCHOOLS BROADCAST (GENERAL STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "o rest his case on that kind of point we will never get anywhere in understanding modern history, or, indeed, any other kind of history. We then come to the detail of the programme itself. Was it really likely that an audience of children, aged 13 to 15, listening to a programme that is to last no more than 20 minutes, could be expected to understand the complicated wage structure of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-13a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-17", "file": "debates1958-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8b0fbd4c6c18b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-17a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure what that question means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-17a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-17", "file": "debates1958-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8b0fbd4c6c18b83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-17a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "t is true. We have a record in factory legislation which is unrivalled by any other country in the world, and it has always been so. The first effective Act, which applied only to textile factories, I think, was passed in 1833, and I take pleasure in the fact that every major Act since then—the 1844 Act, the 1878 Act, the 1901 Act, and the 1937 Act—has been passed by a Conservative Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-17a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in this area there is a very strong feeling that instead of sending the British Navy to bully the Icelandic people and to police their waters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister fully appreciate that the Government have just sustained a major and apparently quite unforeseen diplomatic defeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1013.9", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I was distinctly under the impression that the Prime Minister had answered Question No. 52.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1013.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The terms on which money is being provided for Messrs. Colvilles, which is the denationalised or non-nationalised company, have been agreed in principle, but I am not in a position to disclose them at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1019.5", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "While appreciating that the Prime Minister cannot answer these technical details, may I ask whether the Secretary of State for Scotland could tell us whether the relative position of Scotland is to become steadily worse, that is, whether we are always to be behind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1019.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the statement from the Prime Minister, may I be assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1021.6", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order, Sir. In view of the statement which the Prime Minister has just made, will he say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. There are other steel-producing areas in the country where the capacity is being used to the extent of only 75 per cent. Would you permit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": " This is a figure which I would ask hon. Members opposite to consider very seriously. I would ask them to consider whether it is wise, in a Parliamentary democracy in these days, to come forward with a very queer Bill of this sort for revoking one specific Section in a previous Representation of the People Act and to do it despite the accusation that it is being done in the interests of the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1026.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1046.3", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": " wrong imposed by the Socialist Government when they revelled in the fact of being masters of the situation. Oh, yes, that was said on more than one occasion very truculently when right hon. and hon. Members opposite were responsible for government. 5.0 p.m. As I was saying, I should have expected, if we were doing anything wrong, that a Liberal signature would have been appended to the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1046.3", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "we were doing anything wrong, that a Liberal signature would have been appended to the Amendment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—but there is not one. Why? I will tell hon. Members why. In 1883 or 1884 Mr. Gladstone, a man of the highest moral principles and integrity, and a distinguished statesman, brought in a Bill to extend the franchise. That was, I suppose, in the hope of benefiting the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "roducing the Bill if they thought that. Those being the two views, the one that it is a simple, minor amendment for convenience, without any great importance at all, and the other that it is a piece of electoral trickery designed to rig the next election so far as hon. and right hon. Members opposite are capable of rigging it by giving the wealthier section of the community an electoral advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "pending election, and he knows what is the actual position about motor cars, is anybody really so foolish as to believe that he will not say to himself, \"Here we are. Here's the Tory Party at it again. If there is any trick they can be up to to enable wealth and privilege to secure more than their fair share in a General Election they will certainly do it\", and that is exactly what this Bill does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "cars to carry voters to the poll, hoping that thus induced they will vote Tory. This is one step back towards Eatanswill. It is an absolutely Tory step and it is typical of the Tories, that although this has gone on now since they came into power in 1951, now that for the first time they feel really shaky about the result of the next General Election, they choose this moment to bring in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I purposely took up the most challenging of the hon. Gentleman's remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "rs are Conservatives. Of course, car owners will, in the main, take people of their own party to the polls. That is why they go to the committee rooms and get themselves organised. That is the whole purpose of it. The right hon. Gentleman quite forgot that this, is not only a question of the number of cars. Conservatives, on the whole, have the larger cars which can carry more people to the polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": " torrent of rain all the evening. Tory cars had been going all the day. I was amazed when I went there and found that this normally deserted hamlet was lit up by the headlights of car after car of the Tory candidate. It was like what we in Redruth call the Whitsun Fair. That kind of thing can happen again if the Bill becomes law. Fortunately, many of our people used the Tory cars and voted Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1082.4", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: The Co-ops.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "The purpose behind the Amendment which has been moved is clear. No doubt the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne) will read the Amendment eventually, and may make his speech thereon. We want to prevent the use of many cars by individuals or companies; and not merely cars, but vehicles like station wagons which can seat not two or four, but eight or ten people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1082.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1099.5", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "from some of my hon. Friends—and I am sure that it cannot be denied—that cars are supplied by people who have vested interests. Why should not these suppliers of cars declare their interests? We have to do it in the House of Commons. Some companies have vested interests because the policy of a Conservative Government is such that it would be to their benefit if a Conservative Member were returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1099.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "e bishops and the bookmakers. Those are two classes of the community for neither of whom have I any affection. 7.45 p.m. What happened at that by-election? The place was flooded out by bookmakers' cars, which came from every part of the country. It was claimed by all the people who were watching the election that its result would be determined very largely by the bookmakers' influence, and it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "as the corporation in question would like them to vote. I hope that we shall eventually get a democracy in which the great weight will not rest with those people who have enormous masses of crude wealth at their disposal, but that we will have a system of Government under which every man will have an equal opportunity of securing that his vote shall be effective in the community in which he lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1117.7", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Charles. When you put the Question as raised by the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg), one of my hon. Friends said, \"No.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1117.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1117.7", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Charles. When you put the Question as raised by the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg), one of my hon. Friends said, \"No.\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—This is a fact. My hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Redmayne) said \"No\", and was heard to say \"No\". Therefore, I ask you, in those circumstances, whether you will put the Question again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1117.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-18", "file": "debates1958-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ffdb36e57668f2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmayne (Lord Commissioner of the Treasury)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmayne (Lord Commissioner of the Treasury)", "preceding_text": "I said \"No\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-18a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I should always be happy to try to set a good example, subject to the approval and support of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to you, Sir. It was because of that consideration that I ventured to put to you that the effect of a Motion, \"That Strangers do withdraw\", is to make any reference outside this House to anything that takes place after that Motion has been carried itself a breach of Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "principal, reason was the possible intimidation which the Crown might exercise if reports were made of the speech and action of Members in days when freedom of debate did not in practice afford complete protection. Then there comes the final sentence, to which I draw particular attention: Later, in the eighteenth century, the motive was probably reluctance to be held accountable to public opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A review was promised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "of one-sided arrangements. Alternatively, he should say that the one-sidedness is so great as to require giving the employer an advantage now rather than preserve industrial peace by means of the Order. What were the arguments adduced by employers that led the right hon. Gentleman to decide to get rid of an Order which has existed for eighteen years and must have saved innumerable days of dispute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " before 1940, but since 1940 as well, in the trade union movement on the position of compulsory arbitration—said: It is one of the provisions of the acceptance of this new Order that we can examine defects and give notice to the Minister of Labour that we require amendments to the Order, or, indeed, its termination. So there can be no question that the undertakings were not specific in both cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The talks took place with my Permanent Secretary and my Chief Industrial Commissioner, and the position was that the deadlock was reported to me. I knew the T.U.C. and B.E.C. views exactly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farey-Jones", "preceding_text": " facing the T.U.C. today. Hon. Member after hon. Member has stated that this Order represents the one remaining safeguard for the small employer, the black-coated worker, and so on. But what is the most sweated form of labour in the country today? It is the trade union leaders who are paid pittances and not salaries for doing a grand job of work. It is high time that something was done about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "s' side to turn the application down. Very often, they kick it around from meeting to meeting and one cannot get them to say. \"No.\" The result is that there is no dispute and it is impossible to get the matter before the arbitration tribunal. Even that is not an insuperable difficulty, however, because it is only fair to say on behalf of the employers—and they are not here to speak for themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is that the majority of the representatives of the A.M.C. are probably Labour councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1249.2", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": "t gave a guarantee that the result of a wage claim would have no actual effect on real money earnings, for as everyone would have to follow suit and the whole of industry throughout the country would have to bring all wages into line, the net result at the end of the day would be frustration. I have a suspicion also that this is why the T.U.C. is not wholehearted about its attitude to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1249.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "unlikely to achieve the ideals, which the House has in common, of arriving at agreed methods of resolving disputes, acceptable to both employers and trade unions, with no loss of production and with a quickening rather than a diminution of respect between those who sit round the table and try to work them out. I am sorry to hear that the Opposition have decided to divide at the end of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-19", "file": "debates1958-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "09db67d19922764f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "I am just about to say why. These affairs which we have been discussing——and all of us are presumably interested in the greatest measure of industrial peace and the smoothest industrial relations which we can achieve—are matters upon which divisions between us in this House of Commons matter very much, and they are matters on which our unity, if we can express it, is also very important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-19a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has no such proposal in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1301.5", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I think that \"impudence\" is an unparliamentary word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1301.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "If there is discrimination it is because we desire to be consistent. I am only sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) is not here to support me in this matter. Perhaps I may put it to the hon. Gentleman another way. Tie-pins are chargeable even if they carry badges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So is the Question the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman will know, the first part of his Answer is exactly the same as the one he gave me last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "time to persuade the authorities of his bona fides. They then said that he must leave the United Kingdom on 15th September and, when he pointed out that this would make impossible his address to the Chemical Society, they said, according to Lord Russell's letter: We do not admit people to Great Britain who come principally to take part in public meetings, especially when against Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Renton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Renton)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) mentioned that the invitation from the Imperial War Graves Commission was dated 11th July, 1955.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Folkestone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ht? 6.30 p.m. This boy was sent back. He was not allowed in. He did not attend the memorial. The whole purpose of his visit was frustrated, and he would not have had the opportunity of having more than the fifteen minutes conversation with his sister whom he had not seen for twenty years, under the surveillance of the police, unless his sister had gone to Paris and there renewed their association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ice, to answer a debate on a very important general problem and twenty Adjournment debates all at once. However, I will do my poor best. The policy which has been set forth very fully today by my right hon. Friend—for the first time I think for several years the Home Secretary himself has taken part in this annual debate and has deployed his policy—has been welcomed on both sides of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I have not extended my hon. Friend's case; I have simply pointed out the logical extension which must necessarily follow from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What, under the Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Stoke Newington and Hackney, North, must remember that although it is less true that there is the office of a wall and that this country is in any way isolated now from Europe, it is more true than ever perhaps that we are the envy of less happier lands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-20", "file": "debates1958-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "7512c18c9edbc299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "d Welsh statistics. Everyone is compelled to answer these questions under penalty of £10. Indeed, if somebody answers one of these questions at the registration office at Kilmarnock and the clerk who has taken the answer happens to say to some other clerk, \"His wife was so-and-so\" and gives away the information, under this nice piece of legislation there is liability to imprisonment for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-20a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rn to perhaps a more difficult aspect of the question—that which I venture to call the social-economic aspect. Because of the crisis which I have described, many hoardings in London and elsewhere, which cannot obtain commercial advertising paid for by advertisers, now carry this message: Advertising introduces you to the good things of life and has done much to create your high standard of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the doctor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "t agree—did to its credit ban these products from its advertising columns, upon its own independent medical advice. This advice was not given to it by any commercial body; the group of newspapers has a private arrangement with a leading Harley Street doctor, who has told it that these drugs are dangerous. As a result advertisements for, them are kept out of the columns of the newspapers concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Keep away from Piccadilly.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Monslow", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend say that if I went along Piccadilly and inhaled some carbon monoxide I would not be worse off than if I smoked cigarettes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whiter than white.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " told the House something about these detergents when we were talking about consumer protection a few months ago. What he did not tell the House, and what I would like to say, is that a good deal of careful chemical research into detergents has just been undertaken. The manufacturers give the impression that if fabrics are washed in these products then, in some mysterious way, they are made clean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is Lady Lewisham on that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "12 members are connected with the advertising industry out of a total of 19—even excluding Lady Barnett—can be expected to function in an independent manner? The strongest body among those which I have examined is the Joint Copy Committee of the Newspaper Proprietors Association and the Newspaper Society. They are the people who decide whether advertisements shall go in a newspaper or be left out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "r a really independent and impartial inquiry. The advertising industry is very well represented in this House. I have tried to find out how many hon. Members there are who have declared an interest in the matter. I do not find many on this side of the House, but, on the other, there is the hon. Member for Tonbridge (Mr. Hornby), who was connected with the J. Walter Thompson Company some years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1535.9", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "No doubt the hon. Gentleman will have something to say to World's Press News about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1535.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1535.11", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is plenty of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I think that I am entitled to your pro- tection, Mr. Speaker. It is my Motion. I won the opportunity in the Ballot, and I now intend to make my speech in my own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1535.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Mayhew", "preceding_text": " a medium of entertainment, instruction and information. I should say that was so certainly. In any case, eight minutes is far too much. What are the standards we should apply? Instead of eight minutes, why not say five minutes? I should say that an hour's viewing would certainly have more entertainment or educational value if there were only five minutes, rather than eight minutes, of corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The first quarter\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "ed, but I think I should he right to begin by referring to his speech, and I think I should like to congratulate him on about the first quarter of it. The remaining three-quarters showed, I thought, a steady degeneration and ended up in a welter of trivia. The hon. Member has now returned, and, therefore, I will repeat what I have just said, that I congratulate him on the first part of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "at this is almost a Freudian complex on the subject of a free world and private enterprise. I do not believe that this industry needs further controls other than those existing controls which I have mentioned. But it does need continued freedom under the law to go on with the task of persuading people here and elsewhere to aim at higher standards of living. But because of a number of minor things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "It is very disturbing that when a responsible organisation produces a poster a private censorship committee can say that it should not be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "o prosper in advertising, and will think that he is serving a good purpose. I am merely questioning the purpose. We know what has happened in America. We have new needs created, which may or may not accord with consumer choice but which have been impressed on the consumers by advertising. The very shape and size of some of our manufacturing industries have been drastically affected by advertising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "May I ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker? How can back benchers secure protection in this question of ensuring that a decision is reached on an important matter of this description. It would appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1608.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1609.12", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1609.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1611.2", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. As an old Member of the House, may I ask whether it is not a fact that some of us have been sitting here nearly all the time that the debate has been in progress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1612.3", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "d from the debate, because it has happened to me very often in the past and it may well happen to me again. I was in a dilemma. I had to decide whether it was my duty to expand the case, if I were to do it justice, or whether I should finish my speech earlier in the interests of allowing more hon. Members to take part in the debate. I am sorry if the decision which I took inconvenienced the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to say, first, that no representations have been made to me on this matter by anybody. It has nothing to do with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-21", "file": "debates1958-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a3fc93cacb931a91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1617.5", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am sorry, but I am still not clear about the Ruling. I am sure that you will agree, Sir, that you have introduced a new Ruling for Friday debates. It is that whether the Question is put depends upon the length of the opening speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-21a.1617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-24", "file": "debates1958-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e0c14ff8573b0e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-24a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE RESERVES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but that is not my point. It may be that I have explained myself badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-24a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-24", "file": "debates1958-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e0c14ff8573b0e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-24a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE RESERVES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Steele", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Steele", "preceding_text": "hecklers at all my meetings has been a man who has been in that category, and he has taken every opportunity to pester me about this liability. He agrees that in 1954 something was done to ease and share the responsibility and he is still very conscious of his liability; but he has not been satisfied. After this Bill becomes law I can see that I shall have one satisfied constituent on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-24a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-24", "file": "debates1958-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e0c14ff8573b0e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-24a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RECRUITING (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ocedure and no effective debate on the Report; and that would have been regarded as the end of the matter for the right hon. Gentleman. I can only say that his absence from the debate today has tied up very much with his whole approach to his duty to the House of Commons and with the way in which he has handled the presentation of the Report. That is a pity, because it is an extremely good Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-24a.139.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.204.7", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Does this delay mean that the Secretary of State is waiting for an English law reform Bill in which to incorporate these Scottish reforms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.204.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.221.7", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STANDING ORDER No. 105 (WITHDRAWAL OF STRANGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I understand from my hon. Friends that you did call me by name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.221.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "m of transgressing the rules by suggesting that so low a document should ever have anything to do With HANSARD. These facts lead me to be somewhat surprised that in these debates the Labour Party should be so utterly pedestrian in its approach. It seems extraordinary that, in this age, it should not accept that the car has come to stay, and that, in fact, there are plenty of cars per constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I had an opportunity of listening to almost all the speeches and I notice that the hon. Gentleman was exaggerating what I said. I did not say there would be absolute equality on both sides. In most constituencies the Conservatives will have more cars than Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman claiming that no section of the Labour Party is in favour of abolishing restrictions on the use of cars? If he is, is he not aware that in the Eye division of Suffolk, the Labour Party has made application to the county council to increase the number of polling stations in that large constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " this, but my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Mr. V. Yates) has shown that in his constituency he cannot get out all his permitted cars all day. My hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East showed that even now, with the existing law, 54 per cent. of Labour candidates cannot get all their permitted cars out all day. Is that true of any single Conservative candidate in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.241.5", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": " election law. As Leader of the House he has the duty to preserve the balance evenly between hon. Members and parties in the House. In both these duties he has failed. I must say to him, quite frankly, that by sponsoring, defending and rushing through the Bill he has lowered himself in our respect. What the right hon. Gentleman is doing today is of a piece with his cynical General Election Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.241.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "or Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) intervened at that particular moment, because I am sure you will agree, Mr. Speaker, that I would be strictly in order in drawing attention to the advantages which will be derived by those Members representing large and scattered constituencies as a result of the legislation proposed in the Bill, for that is in the Bill and that is exactly what I was seeking to lead up to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.245.4", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " East Anglian Daily Times of Saturday, 22nd November, 1958: The Clerk to the County Council reported that he recently had a request from representatives of the Eye constituency Labour Party to investigate the position in respect of many of the parishes at present linked for polling purposes. Grounds for the request were\"— I will not quote ( a ) and ( b ), because they are not relevant to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ake their own way to the polling station as far distant in some cases as two to two-and-a-half miles from their homes. Is there any more direct condemnation of all the arguments advanced from the other side of the House than what the constituency Labour Party said in Eye, namely, that the inadequacy of motor cars was a fundamental reason for requiring an increase in the number of polling stations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Polling stations everywhere is not the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.248.7", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "abour supporters riding in Tory cars is ubiquitous? I am sorry that the hon. Lady the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock) is not here. She made a point earlier which I endeavoured to make on the Second Reading of the Bill. I see that the OFFICIAL REPORT records \"Laughter\" at one point in my speech: There is a practice, which is quite ubiquitous, of Labour supporters riding in Tory cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.248.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hannan", "preceding_text": "May I go further and point out that in the constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire, which is at least as large as the constituency of the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro), the poll at the last election was 70 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.250.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said that his hon. Friend's percentage vote at the last election was lower than that of any hon. Member sitting in the Chamber. That is not true. The poll in my own division was below 65 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "y to do all the other days of the week. On this one day when it is important for you to register your vote at a secret ballot I cannot take you to the poll because the law will not allow me to carry you.\" Throughout the debate the pamphlet entitled \"The Future Labour Offers You\" has been quoted a good deal. It seems to me that what it offers on this issue is that people shall walk instead of ride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.259.7", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " In his worry, the agent asked, 'What are we to do?' but Hardie replied, 'Don't worry, brother, I have already drawn up a poster.' There is a copy of that poster among the honoured archives in Merthyr Tydfil, which says: 'Walk to the polls and vote for Keir Hardie. Conviction is the best conveyance.'\"—[OFFICIAL. REPORT, 29th October, 1958; Vol. 594, c. 148–9.] That was Keir Hardie's advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.259.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.294.5", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " so, would repeat that this Measure was introduced as a result of pressure generated and organised, not only by himself but by the forces which he represents, and which are concerned with the attainment of an electoral majority irrespective of the means. One of the fundamental differences between the Labour Party and the Tories is that we do not want an electoral majority as the result of a stunt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.294.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-25", "file": "debates1958-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "175fd92162996c58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was a non sequitur.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Gordon Touche)", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. and learned Attorney-General was making only a passing reference to university seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-25a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Do we not ourselves intend to take any initiative in Central Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Do not the Government intend to do something about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES AND PROSTITUTION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES AND PROSTITUTION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "nt into the problem of what might be termed female and male prostitution. I can well understand those foreigners who call us Albion perfide . Why is it that we propose to deal only with prostitution because it has become objectionable to certain residents in certain places? I have no doubt that it has, although I have never been inconvenienced by these ladies as I have walked through the West End—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES AND PROSTITUTION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "prevalent now in certain quarters of our cities. I do not know much about Stepney, but anybody who goes to the West End can find out a good deal about that area merely by looking round. I should have thought that the reason why there is so much more ostentatious prostitution on our streets is that there is more money about. The supply is now coming up to the greater demand whereas in the old days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES AND PROSTITUTION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "demand whereas in the old days—[ Laughter .]—hon. Members may laugh at this, but I think it is true. In the old days it was not easy for some of the customers to find the money to pay these prostitutes. I do not know what is their average fee, but I have a shrewd idea, and I should say that it is only because of the greater dispersal of money that many of the customers can afford to pay the price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.424.7", "colnum": "424", "heading": "HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES AND PROSTITUTION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "l find it hard to understand the feelings of homosexuals. We must try to believe that there are men who find it as repulsive to have sex association with a woman as a normal man finds it to have association with his own sex. We must accept that there are men who, for various reasons, find it as repugnant to have an association with a woman as normal people do to have association with the same sex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-26", "file": "debates1958-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "a205c41e21d8e929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "HOMOSEXUAL OFFENCES AND PROSTITUTION (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Dance", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dance", "preceding_text": "used to millions of decent people all over the country. There can be no question that this practice is a social evil and that it undermines the morals of the country. One only has to look back into history to find that it was the condoning of this sort of offence which led to the downfall of the Roman Empire. I feel that it was the condoning of these offences which led to the fall of Nazi Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-26a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Is that an answer to the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "onstituencies will he able to cast one vote in the election for the member of his ordinary constituency, which, in certain circumstances, may be devalued, and one vote for the election to one of the seats reserved for African members, which will in no circumstances be devalued. I recognise that even with a desire to give this explanation, I no doubt have left some Members still a little uncertain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ks. Candidates standing in all constituencies would be required to hold ordinary qualifications, except in the six special constituencies, where special qualifications would suffice. Every candidate in a special constituency would be required to obtain a certificate from not less than two-thirds of the recognised chiefs in the constituency that they had no objection to his standing as a candidate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "should be nine Ministers, of whom five would be unofficials and two assistant Ministers, and that of these 11 not less than two should be Africans, of whom one should be a Minister. I have proposed that there should be 10 Ministers, of whom six will be unofficial Ministers, and that for the present it should be an instruction to the Governor that two of these should be Africans and four Europeans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ake some detailed criticisms of the proposals. In our Amendment, we say that the African is under-represented. I am not taking up the case of the African National Congress, which wants parity of representation. It is not the job of the Opposition at any time to associate themselves with one party or group in any of our Colonial Territories. It is our job to judge the situation as fairly as we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ing. We were told that more than 20,000 people were eligible, but in fact fewer than 1,000 took part. I am surprised that the hon. Member did not tell me why. I will tell him. It was, first, because of apathy—because no preparations had been made and the proposal had not been put across to them—and, secondly, because of the boycott of the African National Congress. Is there any dispute about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. C. J. M. Alport)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. C. J. M. Alport)", "preceding_text": "party which goes right to the heart of the problem. He added that the difference of principle this represents is fundamental. This is the second time we have debated these proposals. On the previous occasion when we discussed them we were bitterly assailed, perhaps more bitterly than today, by the party opposite. All sort of tough words were used, such as hypocrisy, scandalous, humbug, outrageous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary has repeated a quite fallacious statement which he made in the hook which he wrote on this problem. I have corrected him before, and he should know better than to repeat the legend which he has just stated. He knows perfectly well that there was appointed a person who had the confidence of the Africans to represent African interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.685.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary knows full well that the reserve powers of the Governor in respect of the decisions of the Executive were never modified and therefore decisions reached by the Executive Council were subject to the Governor's consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The last thing which the hon. Gentleman or anyone else should try to do is to make this debate a competition between the parties as to who is giving advance to which quickest. What we should like to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.687.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-11-27", "file": "debates1958-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f36c5194e374fd25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "NORTHERN RHODESIA (CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Mr. J. Johnson rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-27a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-11-28", "file": "debates1958-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "83addc5b88e84c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-28a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "WILLS, &c. (PUBLICATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any method of finding out except-by asking one or other party to the sale to disclose the price. In fact, that is almost exactly what the Bill provides in respect of wills. There is no objection to a will being published if the testator so specifies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-11-28a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter which comes within my jurisdiction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Certainly. We have very amiable and constructive conversations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. J. R. Bevins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. J. R. Bevins)", "preceding_text": " be the practical result of transferring the assets of new towns to the local authorities. The practical result, as we see it, would be that in most of the towns the council will then own about three-quarters of all the properties in the district and perhaps even more. Yet property ownership, certainly on a scale like this, is quite outside the normal functions of local government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "Because they are not necessarily found among local councillors. I say that with great respect. The Stevenage Urban District Council, which is now a 100 per cent. Labour body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dalton", "preceding_text": "elcome it. May I, however, recall that in the 1951 General Election I was stopped by an elector close to one of the new towns. He stopped me in the street, in the dark, after a political meeting. Anxious not to be overheard and drawing me aside, he asked, \"Do you think the Tories, if they get in, will pull down the new towns?\" I said, \"I have no idea at all, but this question should be addressed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the centre.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "rather than ownership. I believe that that would give an excuse to the local councillors to manage these theatres rather than lease them, and, in doing so, they would give to the public not what the public wants, but what they felt it ought to have. That in itself is a matter of opinion, according to the thoughts of the local politicians. The council would have a majority of the right or the left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-01", "file": "debates1958-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c62031675e77f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "nt? Are we to have some sort of least-favoured-nation clause so that we can never give to the youngest members of the community something which the oldest and most fossilised Tory councillor did not want and would not be fit to have? That is precisely what the Minister is doing. We on this side of the House, with perhaps a little more experience of local government than have hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-01a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "I was about to end my quotation, Mr. Speaker. It is: But he did not think that raging inflation would return; unrestricted hire purchase would be dropped before that happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to pester the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ntion that the Council will have an adequate staff to do its job, or will that job be left to the present 45? Perhaps we can have an answer to that question later. The Government are carrying a tremendous responsibility in building up hopes in Commonwealth countries for aid. My view is that the Commonwealth will be sadly disappointed. We cannot help the Commonwealth unless we have a sound economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " Fund had been eroded away by inflation. I would repeat what the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself said in Montreal, when he referred to the expanding Commonwealth as a \"dynamic partnership in an expanding world.\" Some Government supporters think that if we had Imperial Preference it would solve all our difficulties, but it is significant that the Chancellor said nothing about it this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will deal with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "r studies of the commodity position, commodity by commodity. I wish to be told whether they have started, and if so, in relation to which commodities and where; and if they have not, why not. We were promised consultations within the Commonwealth about surplus disposals. Have these consultations started? I want to know? If they have, which commodities have been affected? If they have not, why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-02", "file": "debates1958-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "53b5ffda331fb51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "ey have not, why not. We were promised consultations within the Commonwealth about surplus disposals. Have these consultations started? I want to know? If they have, which commodities have been affected? If they have not, why not? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have much to say in a short time. I am sure that my right hon. Friends will do their best to reply later. I have many other questions to put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-02a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Member has heard about the patience of the N.U.B.E., but my right hon. Friend has had no request from any source for further assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As I have been asked to withdraw, may I say that at the present time that statement is not true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that I met a young people's deputation in St. Helens whose main complaint was that youth could not find work? Further, I found that employers were very reluctant to develop apprenticeship schemes because National Service tended to give youngsters the idea that when they had finished their Service they should go elsewhere or do something fresh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Sir Ian Horobin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Sir Ian Horobin)", "preceding_text": "year, it might have been a lot worse. It is only fair to note that the Board has been assisted this year by a nonrecurring Income Tax windfall. I know that some hon. Members opposite do not like the Government taking credit for good luck, but perhaps they will not mind the Coal Board doing so. Anybody who can get money out of the Inland Revenue without actually going to prison is a friend of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1191.2", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "the Parliamentary Secretary return to the point he was making, which he has not yet finished? He was about to tell us of a windfall which the Coal Board got by receiving an Income Tax repayment. The Board had provided for Income Tax payments which must necessarily have been part of its previous deficit. The Parliamentary Secretary might be good enough to explain that this is not money from heaven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "The point is quite plain to everybody, even to the right hon. Member. The deficit this year would have been bigger if it had not been for the very satisfactory fact that the Board has succeeded in getting money which it had had to put aside for Income Tax. The figures will be given, as usual, in the Board's accounts, when they are published", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "nt. What I am putting to the House is the broad outlines of the policy the Coal Board has agreed with the Government for dealing with the situation. What I want to draw the attention of the House to, before leaving this part of the survey, is the extreme degree of uneconomicalness—if I may coin a horrible word—of some of these pits. One I have in mind, for instance, lost last year over 63s. a ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "f the policy the Coal Board has agreed with the Government for dealing with the situation. What I want to draw the attention of the House to, before leaving this part of the survey, is the extreme degree of uneconomicalness—if I may coin a horrible word—of some of these pits. One I have in mind, for instance, lost last year over 63s. a ton. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is that?\"] Another lost 64s. a ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Of course it does.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": " degree of uneconomicalness—if I may coin a horrible word—of some of these pits. One I have in mind, for instance, lost last year over 63s. a ton. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is that?\"] Another lost 64s. a ton. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is that?\"] That is not relevant to the argument I am putting. When a pit is losing 60s. a ton on coal it makes no difference if it is in Scotland, South Wales or Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I cannot, offhand, answer that long intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "now must be on productivity and not on production. We must bear in mind that it is only comparatively recently that investment in the coal industry has been anything like a proper figure. From 1947 to 1951—and, again, I am not at this stage criticising anyone; I am merely stating the fact—investment in the coal industry averaged only £27 million a year, which is completely inadequate on any basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": " to 47·3 cwt. The point which I make is, first, that a large amount of continued capital investment must go into the coal industry even though we no longer expect to need such a large amount of coal and, secondly, that there is substantial evidence, at any rate in certain parts of the country—I will put it no higher than that—that where we have spent a lot of money we have had good results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It puts up prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " efficient and solvent, and that the taxpayers of the country should not be called upon to continue to finance losses which are inherent in any demand to Parliament for increased borrowing powers. My right hon. Friend the Member for Hall Green (Mr. Aubrey Jones), who was then the Minister of Fuel and Power, said on 10th May, 1956: What happens when a nationalised undertaking increases its deficit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "he liquid resources of the National Coal Board, it is still £100 million—£40 million in respect of accumulated losses up to the end of this year, plus £60 million in stocks. It is £100 million which could have been applied, had the losses not been earned and had stocks not been necessary, to further capital investment. I am a modest fellow. I quote from the pamphlet \"The Future Labour Offers You\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I must confess that one of my hon. Friends behind me spoke of being puzzled by the right hon. Member. I was equally puzzled by the words he used. He said, \"free the coal industry to compete with oil\". I do not understand—I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will tell me some time—in what way coal is at present hampered in its competition with oil. I do not understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "l companies are fully justified in penetrating to the utmost the market for the sale of aviation and motor spirit and balancing that against their production and sales of fuel oil. The more motor cars there are on our roads, the more motor spirit is wanted, and the more fuel oil that the oil companies must sell as an essential derivative from the crude, and sell it in direct competition with coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1234.6", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "supplies of fuel oil.… In view of this new political crisis in the Middle East, we would be ill advised to place increasing dependence on fuel oil. Rather would I have a policy here at home of continuing to mine the maximum tonnage of coal even if it means storing increasing quantities.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th July, 1958; Vol. 591, c. 905.] I think that it is sufficiently clear to theHouse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I think the quotation which the hon. Gentleman has made from my speech of 14th July, 1958, is an impeccable statement of fact. I spoke of maximum tonnage of coal and increasing stocks, if necessary. If the hon. Member will go back to that date and look up our stocks at that time he will find that the total stocks of coal then were of the order of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-03", "file": "debates1958-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "977bc7a46afbcfed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why sell it off?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "te and look up our stocks at that time he will find that the total stocks of coal then were of the order of—[HON. MEMBERS: \"\"Oh.\"] Let me finish this. They were of the order of 15 million tons, compared with 38 million today. I go a great deal further than that. It may not be possible in the next year or two to avoid coal stocks rising still further. We may want all that coal within a year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-03a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1360.0", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. and learned Friend aware of the difficulties which must be caused to our Foreign Office Departments abroad, who try to do everything they can to make people welcome here, when they find that these young immigration officers causing so much trouble?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1378.5", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Discrimination.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "They are now under the control of the Supreme Allied Commander, and under American control; but subject to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1378.5", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "oldier would have to use. The warheads are under American control, with the American forces, and the American divisions are there; they will be with our divisions. Hostilities would not begin without the authority of SACEUR, and, in those circumstances, there will be no discrimination. Thus, there is, in fact, no discrimination, although I agree that the ownership of the warheads remains American.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "th them. But it is our duty as an Opposition to inform the American nation and our own nation that we consider it would be criminal if the conference were to fail on that point alone. I do not believe that the United States would be forgiven if it ever transpired that we had failed to reach agreement on this so important matter, because it must be clear to everybody that if we could suspend tests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do net want them to leave.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d. If we take advantage of the Polish initiative we will do this. The Poles say, \"Let the occupying Powers take their armies from central Europe.\" Of course, the Poles are very anxious to see the backs of Russian soldiers. They do not like them there at all. The Poles are only too anxious to see them leave, but they know very well that they will not leave so long as the German problem is unsolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ped if these soldiers were not rubbing up against each other, and if there were not excuses for incidents. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman said that we cannot disengage in a modern world because of intercontinental ballistic missiles and things of that sort, he was making a false point. Aeroplanes in the air do not cause incidents in the same sense that land forces can easily cause them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surely the opposite is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "n world because of intercontinental ballistic missiles and things of that sort, he was making a false point. Aeroplanes in the air do not cause incidents in the same sense that land forces can easily cause them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"] No, not incidents as easily as can be caused by land forces. Surely the Middle East gives the answer to that, and what has been happening in Berlin all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "And four or five years of Socialist Government as well, when the opportunities, in those earlier years, before things solidified, were far greater than they were under this Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "e a strong feeling—although I am not an official Parliamentary member of any of these European bodies I go around Europe—that British Parliamentarians who are travelling and working in Europe are severely handi- capped in their efforts to support and sustain British policy and interests for three reasons. First, there is inadequate official support and recognition for the work that they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "arious members is identical. If we dispose of that argument, the right hon. and learned Gentleman comes to the second phase and complains that the proposal for removing atomic weapons and for reducing the number of forces on both sides will mean that America has to leave Europe. Complete nonsense! The Rapacki proposals do not go half so far as the Labour Party's proposals for disengagement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have not misquoted the hon. Member. I now come to the Labour Party's own plan for disengagement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "If the creation of a neutral zone will help the unification of Germany it must presumably have taken place first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Logic chopping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "If the creation of a neutral zone will help the unification of Germany it must presumably have taken place first. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] If disengagement is going to help something in the future it must have taken place beforehand. I leave that to the hon. Gentleman to work out. I cannot think of anything which would be more likely to lead to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-04", "file": "debates1958-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "3a46152b25c93a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ceful plan against which he can compare our faltering steps. One of the things the party opposite said was that their plan must be consistent with the maintenance of United States Forces in Europe. Do they really think their plan is consistent with that? If once the American troops start moving westwards they will more than likely move right home across the Atlantic. In this connection, Mr. Nixon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-04a.1494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-05", "file": "debates1958-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5bd3ba1cfb6dd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1559.4", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "IMMIGRATION (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lot of Scotsmen come here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " suppose the problem is most acute, 11·2 per cent. of those asked were against action; 81·5 per cent. demanded action of the kind I have suggested; and only 7·3 per cent. said that they did not know. I was surprised to find in my researches that only 3 per cent. of the immigrants of any kind have gone to Scotland. Therefore, the burden of the problem falls on poor old England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-05", "file": "debates1958-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5bd3ba1cfb6dd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "IMMIGRATION (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Red Indians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "ich have given rise to a lot of the trouble which has developed, in particular, housing. If the coloured population were spread throughout the country it would not be noticed. I have travelled in the United States where 11 per cent. of the population is negro. If anybody could be said to be the native, indigenous population, it is the negro of America. The negroes were there before all the whites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-05", "file": "debates1958-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5bd3ba1cfb6dd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "IMMIGRATION (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "were spread throughout the country it would not be noticed. I have travelled in the United States where 11 per cent. of the population is negro. If anybody could be said to be the native, indigenous population, it is the negro of America. The negroes were there before all the whites—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The Red Indians.\"] On comparable terms the negro was there in numbers before a lot of the whites.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-05", "file": "debates1958-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "5bd3ba1cfb6dd15e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "IMMIGRATION (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By the whites.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": " 11 per cent. of the population is negro. If anybody could be said to be the native, indigenous population, it is the negro of America. The negroes were there before all the whites—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The Red Indians.\"] On comparable terms the negro was there in numbers before a lot of the whites.—[An HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, the negroes were taken there in boatloads from Africa by the slave trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-05a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Two points are involved here. First, in regard to the availability of the information, I am sure that the hon. Member will agree that the assembly of this information would be a complicated and time-consuming task —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.3.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is really deceiving the House in this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "R.A.F. STATION, NORTH PICKENHAM (DEMONSTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman see that the further report to which he referred is made available to the House, to make it plain that undue force was not used by the local or other police engaged on that site against any of the demonstrators?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.33.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ll the Motion on the Order Paper, I would ask whether it is convenient for both sides to take the General Grant Order and, at the same time, discuss the Grants and Rates (Transitional Adjustments) Regulations. It seems to me that that might be a convenient course, but I do not wish to take it if it is against the interests of either party. Is it agreed that these two Motions be discussed together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a qualification.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": " ensure that, quite apart from the transitional grant, the amount which authorities may lose has been reduced to the greatest possible extent. I think that local authorities are now pretty well satisfied with the results of the review of their future expenditure. The local authority associations have said specifically that they regard the Order as fair and reasonable—within the context of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.86.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. J. R. Bevins)", "preceding_text": "or all it cares. We will come to that in a moment. A little later on, he said: The Bill, and the way it has been treated, verges on the fraudulent. … If the Minister can talk about immoral arguments, I can tell him that his Bill is really fraudulent. The Government have been altogether too smart with the local authorities.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th December, 1957; Vol. 579, c. 1187–8.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "t during this grant period there is any unforeseen rise in the level of prices and that it is so large that it ought not to fall on local authorities, of course he has power under the Local Government Act to amend the Order. We hope that that will not be necessary; indeed, we do not think it will be necessary, because for the first time since the end of the war we have got inflation under control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bournemouth, East and Christchurch?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": " never happen. Before I turn to the health criticisms made by the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Blenkinsop), I should like to refer to some of the speeches made from this side of the House. My right hon. Friend is indebted to the appreciative speeches made by my hon. Friends the Members for the City of Chester (Mr. Temple), Rye (Mr. Godman Irvine), and Norwich, South (Mr. Rippon).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-08", "file": "debates1958-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6416e21c601d322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "and that that is in order. I wish to ask him whether it is true that the proposals with regard to mental health, in the view of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Minister of Health, will do no more than make some obstacle, but not a serious obstacle, to the development of the mental health services. Secondly, I wish to put again the question I asked with regard to the domestic help service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-08a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May I ask a further supplementary question, Sir?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman say how much more rapidly we reduced the number of civil servants in the years after the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister has twice referred to General Keightley's dispatches, but the House has never had an opportunity, due to the failure of both Front Benches, to debate those dispatches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Prime Minister for that Answer, may I ask if he is aware that there is an impression in the country that he is regarded as one of the very guilty men of the Suez affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.206.7", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would not be prepared to go beyond what I have just said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.206.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. All these matters were fully discussed at the time in the House of Commons. I recognise that there were divisions of opinion in the House, and outside it, and when the time comes I am willing to put my record, with that of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.4", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We fully discussed all these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.4", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We fully discussed all these matters—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] As I say, when the time comes, be it soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.6", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, and I shall welcome, when the time comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six o'clock\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " the world. If it were only to satisfy the hon. Member for Pollok that we on this side of the House are interested in education, I could go on speaking for a long time. If duration of speech were proof of intention, I should be perfectly prepared to overwhelm him with proof, but I believe other business is to follow and, as that other business is to follow at seven o'clock—or is it eight o'clock?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-09", "file": "debates1958-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "fa5839b4fe1ff460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "vernment. Each item is small in itself, but the cumulative effect is very large. We cannot hope in one operation to take the local authorities out of the deep waters of Socialist theory in which since the war they have been swept ever further from the shore. By this Measure, we have for the first time turned the tide and the local authorities can feel the ground under their feet. I firmly believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-09a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-10", "file": "debates1958-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "508da51d236d0e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-10a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Is not it a fact that at least 70 cats have been destroyed and that they have been destroyed in order to protect the pheasant shooting? Is not it also a fact that a punt has been built in the depôt at public expense? Would the right hon. Gentleman care to make inquiries and to examine the work tickets? Is not it also a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-10a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-10", "file": "debates1958-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "508da51d236d0e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-10a.443.4", "colnum": "443", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "f the debate which is allotted for the day ends unnaturally early and the subject put down for debate on the Adjournment is one which is of purely local interest and does not attract a great many other speeches, it is then possible for any other hon. Members to fill the hours between the end of the official Adjournment debate and the rising of the House by making speeches on any subject they wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-10a.443.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-10", "file": "debates1958-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "508da51d236d0e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-10a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Yates", "preceding_text": "or of the House and do so. Are Members of the House of Commons suggesting that the Government are not able to read HANSARD in the morning, or that we are not able to follow up any speech we make here tonight about our constituents, about our forces serving abroad, because there is not a Minister of the Government sitting on that Front Bench? I understand that that point has been put in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-10a.465.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "May I ask for a reply to my perfectly reasonable supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "avies) and the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. G. R. Strauss) know that I hold my political views as passionately as they do theirs. I will try to deal shortly with the past. The railways were not given a large share of the national investment in the years following the war. The House debated nationalisation in those years when perhaps, on the whole, it should have been debating modernisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "lowing the war. The House debated nationalisation in those years when perhaps, on the whole, it should have been debating modernisation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not question the sincerity of the idea of nationalisation and it is not my purpose now to argue the case; but it is my duty to say that those years, from the point of view of modernising the railways, were utterly and completely wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jobs for the boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ver give at all. We still have many ideas for the future of the railways, and I am sure that we shall hear of some more from my hon. Friends today. We think that this process of decentralisation should go on. If, in that process, the trains are occasionally to be of different colours, if old loyalties are to be revived and closer contacts achieved, I see nothing wrong in that. Indeed. I see in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Great Western.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. In 1932 and 1933 it paid nothing on its 4 per cent. redeemable preference stock. In 1934 it paid 1⅝ per cent. This fell again by 1938 to 1½ per cent. On ordinary stock it paid no dividends for the four years 1932 to 1935, only 1¼ per cent. in 1937 and 1½ per cent. in 1938. Let us take next the London and North Eastern Railway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "I do not want to follow the remarks of the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies) at any great length, but I should like to remind the House that what I said was far from being a confirmation of the remarks he made. He quoted from an article in a Sunday newspaper with which I had no concern whatever, and he appeared not to accept my denial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "fficiency. It brings over-centralisation and, therefore, militates against efficiency. I am not arguing the question of nationalisation or denationalisation as I have already tried to make clear, it would be idle to talk now of the denationalisation of the railways. Yet I wonder very much if there is not room for hiving off some of these functions and streamlining the operations of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "tion. It goes even further. To try to give some service to the people in the countryside the Commission actually subsidises private bus operators so that they may give a service. I could quote chapter and verse for these subsidies given by the Commission to provide a service at all, because the Commission is more service conscious than the Minister himself. I am probably speaking for far too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On low wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "wn. We were efficient. Anyway, as a result of that experience, I have always had a tremendous affection for British Railways, and I want to talk about morale on the railways. I spend a great deal of time talking to railwaymen, who are a great lot of chaps. People talk about the situation before the war, but it was a great privilege to be employed on the railway system of this country at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I cannot give way. I want to turn to some of the matters dealt with by the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West a number of questions on which he was joined by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Wellingborough. The hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West also risked the remark that he was open to be convinced that this had a value. I hope that he will be convinced when I have answered him. First, the area boards were set up on the initiative of the Transport Commission itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "STRATEGIC MATERIALS (EXPORT TO INDONESIA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have all read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I have read very carefully the newspaper cuttings and perhaps the hon. Member has been misquoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.643.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "STRATEGIC MATERIALS (EXPORT TO INDONESIA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "pposite to stop the export of arms to a certain country. Did we accuse the Opposition of trying to cause unemployment in industry in this country? I ask the hon. Gentleman: how dare he stoop so low as to throw out the sort of challenge, which he has certainly been reported in the Press as having made, when he said: How many more British shipyard workers do the Government want to throw out of work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "STRATEGIC MATERIALS (EXPORT TO INDONESIA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumno", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumno", "preceding_text": "ng history of the export of strategic goods, and the right hon. Gentleman who is sitting beside him knows very well that these things take a long time and this is a question of striking a balance, because if we do not export something it may be brought into the cockpit of party politics. Let the hon. Gentleman turn some of his fury towards his right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr.Bevan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-11", "file": "debates1958-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "f98b622e0756cf4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "STRATEGIC MATERIALS (EXPORT TO INDONESIA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "hat, but time is short. Certainly, we are anxious to export non-strategic goods to Indonesia. The difficulty is the question of credit, which is a serious problem and but for which there is no embargo. Certainly, the Foreign Office is causing no difficulty whatever. We are only too anxious to help. This is not an embargo by the Foreign Office. There is the serious trouble of restriction of credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-11a.645.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-12", "file": "debates1958-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "afd6dc31a24de10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.677.6", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (FURNI TURE AND FITTINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "All I can say to my hon. Friend is that he is, in fact, completely wrong. May I now continue? There is, therefore, a remedy under Section 13, for anyone who enters into such a contract. Something has been said about oral contracts. I have not read the rest of the Section, but, if hon. Gentlemen want me to do so, I will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-12", "file": "debates1958-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "afd6dc31a24de10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (FURNI TURE AND FITTINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good idea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "ractice. I hope that when the Bill returns from Committee this part of it will have been totally changed. In ancient Venice, there used to be a lion's mouth into which people were encouraged to put denunciations of each other. Even in certain modern States, I believe, that is still the case. This is exactly the same thing. This is encouraging the slipping of denunciations through the lion's mouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-12", "file": "debates1958-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "afd6dc31a24de10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (FURNI TURE AND FITTINGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unoccupied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "ima facie evidence, or is it to wait until a complaint is made? If a local authority has to wait until a complaint is made, my remarks about snoopers and denunciations are entirely justified. That is why that part of subsection (2) is something to which I take the strongest objection. As a result of that suspicion, a local authority is to be able to demand the right of entry into somebody's house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-12", "file": "debates1958-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "afd6dc31a24de10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT (SUPPLEMENTATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": "ctically every Parliament we pass one or two major Acts aimed at reducing the number of industrial accidents. Indeed, in the present Parliament there has been an Agriculture Act upon this subject, and the Factories Bill now before the House may help in this connection. We all hope that the number of accidents will be decreased, but the fact remains that it is not showing great signs of decreasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-12", "file": "debates1958-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "afd6dc31a24de10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT (SUPPLEMENTATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeth", "preceding_text": ", but the fact remains that it is not showing great signs of decreasing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"] Not great signs, and also the Government Actuary took into account the general trend—if I am wrong on this point I hope my hon. Friend will tell me—when he made the forecast to which I referred earlier in my speech. I want to insist upon the principle of insurance which I believe to be vitally important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-12", "file": "debates1958-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "afd6dc31a24de10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT (SUPPLEMENTATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "I have already told the hon. Member that I am not seeking to do any harm. I desire to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-12a.739.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that no one believes that, either on that side of the House or on this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.752.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.753.6", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that these articles make a specific allegation against the Government, that of planning an aggressive war, for which fifteen war criminals were hanged at Nuremburg, does the Minister feel that he is upholding the dignity and reputation of the British Government by showing that he is not even concerned to say that he and his colleagues were not guilty of capital offences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.753.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CUBA (SHIPMENT OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "in order to draw the attention of the House to this sad and sordid traffic in arms I endeavoured to speak on the subject during the series of Christmas Adjournment debates. You decided that certain questions, like Scottish horticulture, were much more grave and urgent than the shooting of Cuban citizens with British guns. Does not this throw a peculiar light on your commonsense and responsibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.764.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CUBA (SHIPMENT OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "This is the first occasion in the history of this House when Mr. Speaker has given a Ruling of that kind without giving some reason for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "CUBA (SHIPMENT OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Including America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "What is not hypothetical, Sir, is the position of the Government, who will not give an undertaking to stop the shipment of arms to Cuba. That is the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Mr. Delargy) is now raising and is what I raised earlier. Is it not surprising, in view of the fact that other nations have stopped sending arms to Cuba—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am always very glad to work with the right hon. Gentleman through the usual channels. I hesitate to deny anything he says, because it upsets the integrity of the usual channels; but I can only say that, on the information given to me, I understood that there was no objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we can go back on this now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I had no previous opportunity of announcing tomorrow's business, and, as I told the Leader of the Opposition, I do not see any great chance of the Government's changing their mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "For the very good reason that we had a very crowded programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "is still having, a very marked effect in the big towns, especially London. Hon. Members opposite who think that this is a joke should go and rub their noses in any of the big towns, especially if they sit for constituencies in them. They will not find a queue of people miles long on the pavements on the first available date on which they can be turned out. I never suggested that that would happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "I have an idea that Wednesday will give a better occasion to debate that matter. However, if these people have bought their own houses and, some years ago, entered into contracts with a building society or a local authority to borrow the money, probably 70, 80 or 90 per cent., at least they have an asset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "That is wholly untrue. Local authorities, as the hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well, are encouraged to raise their money in the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-15", "file": "debates1958-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "c2417a193c17bf6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": " have been finished in the last year. What is the reason for this remarkable contrast? Whatever the Opposition may say now, in their aim to achieve respectability and in their attempt to escape from the clutches of the \"Victory for Socialism\" group, the fact of the matter is that the Labour Party has always been secretly, not publicly, contemptuous of the conception of a property-owning democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-15a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he has now reduced this Council to such a laughing stock in Wales that the best thing he could do would be to wind it up, that the Welsh people have no confidence in it, that whether 23 members are left or not, the Welsh people regard it as simply the Minister's voice in Wales and that that is not wanted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "est in the subject and who made such an interesting and amusing speech on the Second Reading. But you will be aware, Mr. Speaker, that there is an issue even more profound in our constitutional history than the relationship between Parliament and the Executive, and that is the relationship between the sovereign electorate and Parliament. Parliament is here only to represent the will of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Harry Hylton-Foster)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were inadequate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Harry Hylton-Foster)", "preceding_text": "made by hon. Members opposite, and, with one exception, I have not been able to find any argument that we have not heard before either both on Second Reading and in Committee or during one or other stage. I hope that the House will be indulgent if I endeavour not to rehash but perhaps remind the House of answers which have been already given to the arguments which today have been raised yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Harry Hylton-Foster)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Harry Hylton-Foster)", "preceding_text": "eable to see the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Albu) at the Box on, I think, his most important occasion in this context, very agreeable indeed. When he gets there, one of the matters of his complaint is that, in Committee, we had a whole bench of Ministers there, from one Department or another. Parliamentary Secretaries they may have been, but the antithesis is not, in the context, of importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "e controls. I was accused by hon. Members opposite of saying that they intended to use them often, but we do not desire to continue them. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen are living in the past if they imagine that, in circumstances of peacetime, it is possible to make effective, fair and practicable use of selective price controls to obtain the objectives which are common to both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "is House takes note of the Report from the Select Committee on Obscene Publications of Session 1957–58 (H.C. 123). I am glad that we have an opportunity to debate this subject. I want to say at the start that on present form it is not proposed that more than one speech should be made from the Government Front Bench, so as to give the maximum time for hon. Members to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How would the printer know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "No. I was suggesting that the offence should apply in the case of an obscene publication which is printed for sale. I must admit that I have not considered the case of something which was printed not for sale. If it is something printed privately and not for sale, I would not have thought it necessary to create an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Head", "preceding_text": " is six days. If hon. Members follow me, therefore, this operation, which has been so heavily criticised as being slow and a classic example of military ineptitude, was, unless we did an allairborne operation, in a straitjacket in respect of its form. That straitjacket was this. Push the button, give the order for it to take place and six days elapse between the order and the assault on Port Said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because it failed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "dvantages of this operation, that it was in the \"straitjacket\" to which the right hon. Gentleman referred; but he accepted those deficiencies and he saw them through during that period. The operation was circumscribed by geography and the operational confines in which it had to be carried out. The Government knew of those problems and accepted them. The operation is now regarded as a failure. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "have just listened. Without our asking for this debate, we should not have had this fascinating episode. We have had the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carshalton (Mr. Head), one of the right hon. Gentlemen responsible for the Suez affair, for the first time coming to the House and revealing a few of the secrets. The right hon. Gentleman says that Randolph Churchill's articles are all untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "hould not have had this fascinating episode. We have had the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carshalton (Mr. Head), one of the right hon. Gentlemen responsible for the Suez affair, for the first time coming to the House and revealing a few of the secrets. The right hon. Gentleman says that Randolph Churchill's articles are all untrue—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or that there were large inaccuracies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "it was a time when the button should never have been pressed at all. Those are the three issues, which we cannot decide on the basis of the facts now available. I was looking at the debates which we had two years ago, and what struck me was that we know nothing more two years later than we knew when we debated the matter two years ago. There has been a conspiracy of silence on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ing a speech. He is being allowed to write his version of Suez, with access to all the secret documents. If he wants to publish any of them he has only to get leave of the present Prime Minister, and I suspect that that will not be very difficult. We shall have a speech in defence of the Government written by Sir Anthony Eden for which The Times has paid, I am told,£100,000 for the serial rights.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "em quite frankly that I hope that they will press home what they feel to be this advantage at the next General Election, because I think that the balance of advantage is very heavily on our side. The tribute paid to Sir Anthony Eden by the hon. Member for Dudley was a generous tribute, and I think that broadly speaking it was couched in words with which hon. Members of his party could fully agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "the bulk of the Egyptian army in Sinai. I will not argue whether that army was composed of first-class or second-class troops. I do not know. The Israelis were advancing towards the Canal within a matter of hours. Having got to the Canal, there was nothing to stop them getting across, and, having got across there would have been nothing to prevent them advancing from Ismailia along the Cairo road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member's intervention is a complete answer to the charge of collusion. The hon. and learned Member is not always quite as clever as he thinks he is. His intervention knocks out the charge of collusion. If there had been collusion, it would have been exactly on the lines he suggested. The party opposite cannot have it both days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of procedure, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. A great deal of the time of this debate has been taken up by a purely irrelevant filibustering speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Yates", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.4", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.7", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Christopher Soames)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Christopher Soames)", "preceding_text": "As I understand this debate, it is an Adjournment debate initiated by the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) on matters affecting Suez and the Keightley dispatches and it will have lasted an hour and a half. The House will be glad that it was found possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1087.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Gordon Touche)", "preceding_text": "The practice is to call the Minister who will reply to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.5", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "As Mr. Speaker has now arrived in the Chamber, will you be good enough to allow him to take the Chair, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, so that I may put a point of order to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.7", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Would you be good enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.11", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Will you please be good enough, Mr. Speaker, to give me your advice? There has been a debate on the Adjournment this evening, opened by my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg). It was supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) and then there was a long speech made from the other side of the House and a speech by the right hon. Member for Carshalton (Mr. Head).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1088.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-16", "file": "debates1958-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d5c1c5afc190b75b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1091.3", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUEZ OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Randolph Churchill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " a bit. Nor did they stop to think of the effects which their actions and their words would have upon our troops, committed to battle for better or for worse. This is all old ground which we are covering today. How comes it, after nearly two years have gone by, with barely a mention of the Suez operations in the House, that hon. Members opposite choose this time to rake up their accusations again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-16a.1091.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he is now giving a different impression to that in the Director-General's reply to me? If he will look at the matter again he will see that the Director-General agrees that there were two points on which, in his own words, \"inaccuracy crept in.\" One of the main statements of Government policy was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1130.2", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "THE WEST INDIES (GIFT OF MACE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Thomas Dugdale", "preceding_text": " Leader of the Opposition, agreed unanimously to the following Resolution: Be it resolved that the thanks of this House of Representatives be sent to the Commons House of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for their munificent gift of a Mace. I hope, Mr. Speaker, that, in accordance with precedent, you will give the necessary instructions for this Resolution to appear in the Journals of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "We must hope that the measures for expansion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "preceding_text": "ho are old enough remember what happened in the 1930s, and we are determined that it shall never happen again, but we should remember that, though in many ways bad, the 1930s were not wholly bad. It is sometimes forgotten that the increase in production was greater in the 1930s than ever before or since in this country. Between 1932 and 1937 the volume of industrial production rose by 41 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alexander Spearman", "preceding_text": " Interruption .] Let me give the figures. The rate of production, expressed as a percentage of the volume of production, was 79 in 1929, a year for which a Labour Government had some responsibility. It fell in 1931 to 71 and it rose to 103 in 1937. During that time the standard of living of those more fortunate people who were employed rose more quickly than it had ever done in the country before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1177.2", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Spearman", "preceding_text": "I have given the column in HANSARD and it has nothing to do with actuarial calculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peel", "preceding_text": " level of unemployment is well below the national average. During the last month, no doubt due to the sensible measures which the Government have taken, the level has dropped. It is high time that the House and the country understood quite clearly how completely erroneous is the impression deliberately put about by Members of the Opposition that the Conservative Party is the party of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peel", "preceding_text": "The only way that a Socialist society can ensure full employment is, of course, by the creation of slave labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peel", "preceding_text": "Nobody agrees with unemployment in any circumstances. Nobody for a moment believes in it. It is one of the things which is so deplorable about the Opposition that they say that my right hon. and hon. Friends believe in unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1191.8", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Those figures are lower than ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "May I give the hon. Member the figures for the Netherlands? The figure was 3·3 per cent. in January and was down in September to 1·9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1191.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has been showing that the blackest picture is in Lanarkshire, but the one Member for Lanarkshire on the other side of the House has not even come in to listen to this part of a serious debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Really?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In justice to the hon. Member for Lanark (Mr. Patrick Maitland), who is absent, I think I ought to say that he asked me what I thought his prospects of speaking in the debate were and I told him that I thought the chances were very much against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a new one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think I ought to say that, since the point has been put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "e Lord Polwarth is no longer merely an apologist for the Tory Government. He has become the principal propagandist for the Tory Government in Scotland. It is he who has now told us that the new steel development in Scotland will produce at least 100,000 new jobs and at best 150,000 new jobs. Where on earth did he get these figures? Does the President of the Board of Trade know anything about this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1200.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1207.5", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "Lady Tweedsmuir rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "m which applicants have to complete is much simpler to understand and to deal with quickly, and is capable of producing a quicker flow of information between the applicant and the D.A.T.A.C. I am certain that my right hon. Friend, or myself through the Scottish Office, will send the form to any hon. Member who wants details, in case he can assist to explain it to people who have to use such forms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Northern Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "it me, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, of any intention of being in any way disrespectful, but this debate is being conducted apparently on a regionalised basis. Scotland, Wales and other parts of the country have been debated. It is now twenty-five minutes to nine, and the debate must come to an end soon. So far, Lancashire's voice has not been heard, and the problem in Lancashire is very special and tragic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "cotland said this afternoon. At the same time, he said that there was no one on the Government side who liked unemployment; that they were as sincere as anyone else in wanting a low unemployment figure, and regretted the size of the unemployed army at the present time. Nevertheless, many hon. Members opposite, including some Members of the Government, see some good in a growing army of unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Who put them up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "r large total, between £125 million and £150 million, was announced on 3rd November. The second point is that Government Departments and local authorities should push ahead with their programme for roads, schools and hospitals. It is in those fields that we have splendidly high programmes and we are now pushing ahead. The right hon. Gentleman's third point is that interest rates should be lowered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-17", "file": "debates1958-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8656ff1fb9998ad8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ot have any detailed figures, but the movement between November and December has been more favourable than one could expect. In a normal year, there would be a slight increase between these two months. I certainly anticipated a quite substantial increase on top of the normal seasonal movement. In fact, it looks as if there has been stability between these two months and, indeed, a slight decrease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-17a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-18", "file": "debates1958-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1db33de93bad3ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "TROOPS, CYPRUS (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": " Cyprus for troops of all three Services. as well as better accommodation? Secondly, in view of the apparent accuracy of the letter in the Daily Mail yesterday from the unidentified warrant officer, could we have an assurance from the Minister that special steps will not be taken to try to identify this warrant officer or to take disciplinary action against him for a breach of Queen's Regulations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-18", "file": "debates1958-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1db33de93bad3ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "TROOPS, CYPRUS (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "What I do know is that men are now in waterlogged tents, when we were giving full warning six months ago that this would happen. Does not the hon. Gentleman realise that his duty is not to get angry with us but to get angry with whoever in the War Office failed to take action between July and November?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1958-12-18", "file": "debates1958-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1db33de93bad3ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1314.6", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "TROOPS, CYPRUS (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I have explained that the problem of tentage has been met. The request was for 2,700 tents and they have been delivered to Cyprus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1314.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1958-12-18", "file": "debates1958-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1db33de93bad3ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "MALCOLM CLUBS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Preventing war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Secretary of State for Air; but he is still concerned with war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1958-12-18a.1407.1"}